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NIST to Receive $610 Million Through Recovery Act

March 3, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will receive $610 million in funds as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The...

NIST Announces Three-Phase Plan for Smart Grid Standards, Paving Way for More Efficient, Reliable Electricity

April 13, 2009

(See also Vice President Biden Outlines Funding for Smart Grid Initiatives (White House release, 4/16/09)) GAITHERSBURG, Md. – As part of the Obama...

AIAG award

For substantial contribution and leadership on behalf of the automotive industry.

NIST Announces Competition for Research Construction Grants

May 27, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the availability of approximately $120...

NIST Delivers Updated Draft Standards for Electronic Voting Machines

June 1, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC)...

Commerce Department to Work with ICANN and VeriSign to Enhance the Security and Stability of the Internet's Domain Name and Addressing System

June 3, 2009

WASHINGTON —The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and National Institute of Standards and...

NIST Seeks Proposals for $20 Million Recovery Act Program

June 15, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it is establishing a financial...

NIST Releases Report on Smart Grid Development

June 18, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, MD – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology today released for public review a report* that identifies...

Commerce Secretary Locke Announces Selection of 2009-2010 Commerce Science and Technology Fellows

June 23, 2009

WASHINGTON—Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced that 17 federal employees have been selected to participate in the 2009-2010 Commerce Science and...

United States Government Configuration Baseline

The purpose of the United States Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB) initiative is to create security configuration baselines for Information Technology

Security Configuration Checklists for Commercial IT Products

NIST maintains the National Checklist Repository, which is a publicly available resource that contains information on a variety of security configuration

NIST Issues Human Milk and Blood Serum SRMs for Contaminant Measurements

June 30, 2009

Responding to scientists' need to measure organic contaminants in human body fluids, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently made...

summer students at NIST explore the NCNR

NIST Summer School Passes the Neutron Science Torch

June 30, 2009

What do the mystery of how proteins fold, the unexpected behavior of nanoparticles, and the key to making hydrogen fuel cells have in common? All can be...

Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices

June 30, 2009

A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia...

Section of lung tissue from a double knockout mouse, stained to show lung tumors.

Genetically Engineered Mice Yield Clues to 'Knocking Out' Cancer

June 30, 2009

Deleting two genes in mice responsible for repairing DNA strands damaged by oxidation leads to several types of tumors, providing additional evidence that such...

CNST's Daniel Pierce Named Outstanding Referee by the APS

April 16, 2009

Dr. Daniel Pierce of the CNST has been cited as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society (APS). This lifetime APS award was initiated in 2008 "to...

CNST Research Featured in ACS Nano Perspective

April 16, 2009

In a recent report in the journal ACS Nano,* researchers in the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group and Electron Physics Group reported their success at precise...

Gregory Rutter Wins Best Thesis Award for CNST Research

April 16, 2009

Dr. Gregory Rutter, an NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate in the CNST, has won a Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Georgia Institute of Technology chapter of...

CNST Co-sponsors Global Workshop on Nanoscale Measurement Challenges for Energy Applications

December 29, 2008

One of the biggest scientific challenges in the world is the development of new ways to produce, transport, and sustain energy in the 21st Century, and...

Vincent Luciani Joins the CNST as Manager of the NanoFab

November 24, 2008

The CNST is pleased to announce that Vincent Luciani has joined NIST as the new NanoFab Manager. Vincent has over 30 years of private industry experience in...

NIST Visiting Researcher Gregory Rutter Awarded the Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Award

October 28, 2008

Gregory Rutter, a visiting researcher at NIST's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is the winner of a prestigious student award from the AVS...

NIST Visiting Researcher Young Kuk awarded Inchon "Academy" Prize

October 27, 2008

Dr. Young Kuk, a visiting researcher in NIST's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is the latest recipient one of South Korea's most prestigious...

Students "Surf" for Graphene at NIST

September 1, 2008

More than 120 science, mathematics and engineering college students and recent college graduates were given a chance to ride the next wave in cutting-edge...

NIST Signs Cooperative Agreement with U-Albany Nano College

April 21, 2008

Albany, N.Y. – The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today with the College...

Postdoctoral Students (NRC Postdocs)

Want to start your career on the cutting edge of research? NIST’s postdocs research quantum science, study AI, explore the latest in...

Lloyd Whitman Named Deputy Director of NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

March 7, 2008

Robert Celotta, Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST), announced the...

Measuring Security Risk in Enterprise Networks

Enterprise networks have become essential to the operation of companies, laboratories, universities, and government agencies. As they continue to grow both in

NIST Issues First Reference Material for Tissue Engineering

May 5, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last week issued its first reference materials to support the new and growing field of tissue...

NIST Hosts Two International Materials Research Meetings in June

June 2, 2009

For the materials research community, all roads will lead to the Gaithersburg, Md., headquarters of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP)

The Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) is a joint effort between the National Institute of Standards and Technology under the Department of Commerce

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