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NIST Announces Award for Manufacturing Extension Center in Florida

September 26, 2024

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made a cooperative agreement award to operate a Manufacturing...

Nicole Yunger Halpern Named 2024 Science News 10: Scientists to Watch

Physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern from the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), NIST, and the University of Maryland connects thermodynamics to modern quantum technologies.

Freese and Nichols, Inc. 2024

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2024 Award Recipient, Service Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Brian Coltharp...

Alamo Colleges District  2024

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2024 Award Recipient, Education  Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Dr. Mike Flores...

Chickasaw Nation Department of Health

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2024 Award Recipient, Health Care Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Dr. Charles Grim...

Northeast Delta Dental

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2024 Award Recipient, Nonprofit Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Tom Raffio...

City of Henderson

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2024 Award Recipient, Nonprofit Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Richard Derrick...

Mike Stocker working with EVSE equipment

NIST OWM-ANL Co-Host Inaugural EVSE Metrology Training Event

September 30, 2024

Several of the NIST OWM staff teamed up with Ted Bohn of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) to deliver a one-day hybrid workshop and training event on electric...

Metric Week 2024: Measure Up with Metric Education

October 2, 2024

National Metric Week ( October 6 to 12, 2024) is an opportunity to draw attention to the educational and economic benefits of metric system measurements...

Iris Experts Group Public Comments

OSAC Public Comments Since OSAC has its own public comment process, any document submitted to OSAC will utilize the OSAC public comment...

Dinelka Jagada tallies team scores during NIST Metric Est Game.

2024 NIST Internship Reflections

October 1, 2024

During the summer of 2024, the NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory’s ( PML) Office of Weights and Measures ( OWM) hosted two undergraduate students through the...

Map of RMAP regions without state listing

78 Combined Regional Measurement Assurance Program (C-RMAP)

Sun, Jun 1 - Thu, Jun 5 2025

NIST Handbook 143, Section 5.2, Table 2 notes that annual attendance at the RMAP training session is required for

ACMD Seminar: Neural Circuit Models for Evidence Accumulation and Graded Information Transfer in Decision Making

Lindsey Brown Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, 3:00-4:00 PM ET...

Yellow grass surrounds a wooden boat dock that extends into a shallow wetland. Across the water is a small town of buildings and trees.

NIST Funds Climate Measurements Center of Excellence at the University of Vermont

September 20, 2024

The agreement includes an award of $2.7 million appropriated by Congress for this purpose.

Quantum Matters in Material Sciences (QMMS)

Wed, Feb 19 - Thu, Feb 20 2025

As part of the JARVIS workshop series, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is organizing the 4 th

TMMC: Reference Adsorption Isotherms for N2/CO2 Mixtures in Metal-organic Frameworks

Transition-Matrix Monte Carlo (TMMC) simulations of binary mixtures of N 2 and CO2 [1-10] were performed at T = 300 K and 350 K in the ZIF-8...

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Instruments

Analytical Electron Microscope The Titan 80-300 is a transmission electron microscope (TEM) equipped with spectroscopic detectors to allow...

New Smoke Alarms Are Better at Detecting Fires but Still Beep for Bacon

September 18, 2024

NIST research in a kitchen fire laboratory shows that updated smoke detectors still produce nuisance alarms during cooking.

Building a Cybersecurity and Privacy Learning Program: NIST Publishes SP 800-50r1

September 12, 2024

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-50r1 (Revision 1), Building a Cybersecurity and Privacy Learning Program, provides updated guidance for developing and...

Finding 500,000: Addressing America’s Cybersecurity Workforce Gap

June 26, 2024

The purpose of the hearing was to examine ways in which the federal government is addressing America’s cybersecurity workforce gap.

Alexey Gorshkov Named Finalist in 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

Advanced the design of large interacting quantum systems through pioneering research at the intersection of quantum physics and information science with groundbreaking implications for quantum computers, sensors, and networks.

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NIST’s Long Phan and Marc Levitan Receive Service to America Medal

September 10, 2024

The award recognizes their efforts to develop standards and building codes to make structures resistant to tornadoes.

TIME Recognizes Elizabeth Kelly as one of the 100 most influential people in AI

On September 5, 2024, TIME included Elizabeth Kelly, director of the United States Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, on its list of the 100 most influential people in AI. Elizabeth was recognized for her leadership of the AI Safety Institute...

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