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NIST to Launch Competition for AI-Focused Manufacturing USA Institute

March 12, 2024

NIST published a Notice of Intent (NOI) in the Federal Register today.

Advanced Analytical Electron Tomography for Materials Development and Failure Analysis in Semiconductor Devices

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) are widely used in industry for identifying structural and

Sharon Laskowski wins Election Hero Award from the Center for Civic Design

Congratulations to Sharon Laskowski (IAD, guest researcher), who received an “Election Hero” award on February 7 th from the Center for Civic Design at CCD’s 10th Birthday Celebration in Washington, D.C. for her dedication to usable and accessible...

Uniform Unit Pricing: Tools for Consumers to Fight Shrinkflation

Retailers benefit when unit price labeling best practices are implemented, including improvements for ordering, inventory control, and pricing accuracy, which

Impact of Material Composition on Ignitability and Fire Growth

The information provided in this report will support a more realistic assessment of fires in electrical enclosures and the overall impact of material

Automated Tools for Material Property Calibration

Reliable computational predictions of flame spread and fire growth can assist in the design and selection of reduced flammability materials. Due to the

NIST/NRC Fire Research Collaborations

Since 2005, the NIST Fire Research Division has engaged in a collaborative research effort with the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research of the US Nuclear

Candice M. Smith

Board Member Term Expires March 2027

Dr. Jermaine Ford

Board Member Term expires March 2027

Winston W. Chang

Board Member Term Expires March 2027

Physicist or Engineer Position Anticipated (Applied Electrical Measurements Group)

Interested in being part of the decarbonization of the transportation sector? The Applied Electrical Measurements (AEM) group in the Quantum...

John Messina Wins INCITS Merit Award

Congratulations to John Messina (SSD) for winning the INCITS Merit Award, which recognizes his more than 10 years as a member with significant contributions to at least two international SCs or WGs in a technical contributor or leadership role and...

Jeffrey M. Voas receives the Distinguished Career Award in Computer Science from Ram Sriram

Jeff Voas Wins 2023 Distinguished Career Award in Computer Science

Congratulations to Jeff Voas (CSD) for winning the 2023 Distinguished Career Award in Computer Science for foundational contributions in software fault injection, testability, cloud computing, vetting mobile apps, internet of things, digital twins...

Ram D. Sriram Receives Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering Honorary Member Award

Congratulations to Ram D. Sriram (SSD) for receiving an honorary member award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) in New Orleans at the IISE Annual Symposium. According to IISE, this is the highest honor IISE may grant an...

Hossam Tamri Receives AIRA Recognition Award

Congratulations to Hossam Tamri (SSD) for being selected and honored with a Recognition Award for his work on qDAR at the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) national meetings held May 2-4, 2023 in San Diego, California. qDAR (Quality...

Angela Robinson Receives 2023 Women in Technology Rising Star Award

Congratulations to Angela Robinson (CSD) for receiving the 2023 Women in Technology Rising Star Award on May 18th. This category honors a woman in the beginning stages of her career who has demonstrated exemplary leadership traits and mentorship.

Ram Sriram Becomes a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology

Congratulations to Ram D. Sriram for becoming a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology. According to IET, the fellowship is given to "those respected professionals at the forefront of engineering, technology, or cognate disciplines...

2022 Ron Brown Excellence Award Ellen Voorhees

Ellen Voorhees Receives Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the University of Glasgow

Congratulations to Ellen Voorhees (IAD) for receiving an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Glasgow in recognition of her achievements in the evaluation of information retrieval, question answering, and other language...

Patrick Grother Receives 2023 Federal Identity Forum and Expo Career Achievement Award

Congratulations to Patrick Grother (IAD), the winner of the 2023 Federal Identity Forum and Expo Career Achievement Award - 2023 Federal Identity Forum & Exposition: FedID Award Winners.

NIST's IoT Cybersecurity Program Receives the WITSA Chairman's Award

Congratulations to NIST's IoT cybersecurity program , the recipient of the World Innovation, Technology, and Services Alliance (WITSA) Chairman's Award at the Global Innovation and Tech Excellence Awards 2023. NIST is recognized " for hosting a multi...

Ram Sriram receives 2023 IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Achievement Award

Congratulations to Ram D. Sriram (SSD) who will be receiving the 2023 IEEE Reliability Society's Lifetime Achievement Award for "contributions to and leadership in standards, measurements, and techniques for developing reliable and trustworthy...

ACMD Seminar: Toward Parameter-free Restoration of Noisy Orientation Maps

Prashant Athavale Assistant Professor, Mathematics Dept., Clarkson University Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 3:00-4:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT) A...

2022 Silver Medal Award--- Weigand, Marcu, Sadek, Phan, and Pintar

Awarded for achievements in science and engineering. The group is recognized for developing and executing an innovative research program to experimentally measure and analyze the effects of Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) on the material and structural...

2022 Gold Medal Award---Levitan and Phan

Awarded for achievements in science and engineering. The group is recognized for technical innovations in conceiving and developing probabilistic tornado hazard maps and tornado load methodology for the United States. These first-of-a-kind maps...

Collaboration Opportunities

We hope you are as excited as we are about the direction of our research. If you want to collaborate with us in these or related research...

NIST Awards Nearly $3 Million for Educational Programs Focused on Circular Economy to Reduce Plastic Waste

March 1, 2024

Six universities will create programs to help develop solutions to problems created by the production and consumption of plastics.

2 meter diameter horizontal mechanical test machine with control computers

NCAL: Cruciform Test Machine

A cruciform test machine is available in the NIST Center for Automotive Lightweighting. This machine deforms a cross-shaped specimen with four specimen end tabs

Ram Sriram named 2023 ACM Fellow

Congratulations to Ram D. Sriram (SSD) who has been named a 2023 ACM Fellow . According to ACM, “ACM is proud to include nearly 110,000 computing professionals in our ranks and ACM Fellows represent just 1% of our entire global membership. This year...

Artist’s rendering of an organ-on-a-chip device

NIST-Led Working Group Developing Standards for Organ-on-a-Chip Research

February 22, 2024

When testing a new medicine, researchers must do more than assess how well that drug works. They also have to determine whether the medicine has some negative...

Graduate Business School Students Evaluate Commercialization of Groundbreaking Federal Technologies

February 22, 2024

In technology transfer, standing still is tantamount to falling behind. The field of federal technology transfer progresses because it teems with fresh and...

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