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Organizations Can Now Apply for the 2013 Baldrige Quality Award

January 8, 2013

With the launch of the 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) application process, the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is ready to help U

Summer Research Opportunities for Undergraduates at NIST

January 8, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is accepting applications for its Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at its

NIST Workshop Seeks Manufacturers' Ideas on Using Multipurpose Robots

January 8, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants to help turn manufacturing robots into dexterous, nimble-fingered machines—affordable mechanical

Boeing Company Executive Joins NIST Advisory Committee

January 8, 2013

John J. Tracy, chief technology officer of The Boeing Company and senior vice president of Engineering, Operations and Technology, has joined the National

NIST/Industry Quality Measurement Data Standard

June 21, 2007

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers, together with colleagues from the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), key manufacturing

Schematic of the monolayer self-assembly process studied by the NIST/NCSU team.

Catching Waves: Measuring Self-Assembly in Action

June 21, 2007

By making careful observations of the growth of a layer of molecules as they gradually cover the surface of a small silicon rectangle, researchers from the

NIST Fire Experts Examine Charleston Building Collapse

June 21, 2007

On June 19, 2007, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sent four fire experts to Charleston, S.C., to gather information and examine the

NIST experiment to replicate an office fire

NIST WTC Recommendations Spur New Model Building Codes

June 21, 2007

Safer buildings—especially tall structures—that are more resistant to fire and more easily evacuated in emergencies are the goal of the first comprehensive set

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Coordination

This is an annually renewed project that supports NIST's Lead Agency coordination of National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) research and

Forensics@NIST 2012 Webcast Now Available

January 7, 2013

On November 28 -30, 2012, NIST hosted the Forensics@NIST symposium at its Gaithersburg, Maryland campus. The symposium featured three days of presentations and

Save the Date for DNA Analyst Training on Mixture Interpretation

January 7, 2013

On Friday, April 12, 2013, NIST will host a free, one-day workshop on interpreting forensic DNA mixtures in casework. Participants may attend this workshop

Performance-Based Seismic Engineering (PBSE) for New Buildings Project

Structural collapse demand and capacity are not clearly defined or directly simulated in current Performance-Based Seismic Engineering (PBSE) methodology

Collapse Assessment of Buildings under Seismic Loading

NIST recently completed a multi-year study of three structural steel framing systems to evaluate the correlation between ASCE/SEI 7 (ASCE 2010) and ASCE/SEI 41

Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Technical Demonstration

Mon, Jan 14 2013

This workshop explains selected security challenges involving Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing

The Idea Factory

Fri, Jan 11 2013

Bell Laboratories, which thrived from the 1920s to the 1980s, was arguably the most innovative research and development

Service Life Prediction of Filled Polymers Project

Prior efforts at NIST demonstrated the feasibility of quantitative service life prediction by linking the field and laboratory for an unfilled polymer. This

Service Life of Nano-enabled Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (NeFRP) Composites Project

This project will utilize chemical spectroscopy of stressed composites to quantify the magnitude and mode of stress transfer at the fiber-matrix interface in

NIST Health IT Symposium Series - March 2013

Wed, Mar 13 2013

To introduce innovative health IT R&D to NIST's researchers working in health IT and to increase collaborations.

NIST Health IT Symposium Series - February 2013

Wed, Feb 13 2013

To introduce innovative health IT R&D to NIST's researchers working in health IT and to increase collaborations.

NIST Health IT Symposium Series - January 2013

Thu, Jan 10 2013

To introduce innovative health IT R&D to NIST's researchers working in health IT and to increase collaborations.

NIST Exhibits at the 2013 International Wireless Communications Expo

Wed, Mar 13 - Thu, Mar 14 2013

IWCE is the authoritative annual event for communications technology in the working world. Over 7,500 technology buyers

UV Ray of Hope for Safer Drinking Water

December 19, 2012

A group of researchers from PML's Sensor Science Division is part of a project that will have a direct effect on improved safety of the nation's drinking water

For Newly Discovered 'Quantum Spin Liquid', the Beauty Is in Its Simplicity

December 19, 2012

A research team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has confirmed long-standing suspicions among physicists that

NIST Exhibits at 2014 BEYA STEM Conference

Thu, Feb 6 - Sat, Feb 8 2014

Easily the most-anticipated diversity event of the year, BEYA STEM Conference is a talent-rich environment for

Uses and Users of NIST's Atomic Spectra Database

December 19, 2012

The online Atomic Spectra Database (ASD) provides the most authoritative information about atomic spectra available anywhere, and it is used by researchers

NIST Exhibits at 2015 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit

Tue, Feb 10 - Wed, Feb 11 2015

The ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit is an annual conference and technology showcase that brings together experts from

"P" Is for Partnership

November 2012 A well-known poem by Robert Frost, "Mending Walls," contains the famous line "Good fences make good neighbors." This is also...

Photons Emitted by Quantum Dots Can be Made Indistinguishable Through Quantum Frequency Conversion

December 19, 2012

An international collaboration led by researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology has demonstrated the ability to make photons emitted

The Year in Patents

December 18, 2012

NIST scientists and engineers have been recognized as inventors in a variety of research areas, including the biosciences, building and fire research, materials

NIST Exhibits at the AAAS Annual Meeting 2014

Thu, Feb 13 - Mon, Feb 17 2014

The AAAS annual meeting is the World's Largest General Scientific Society's event. This annual event is one of the most