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Yan Lu Receives ASME Certificate of Appreciation

Yan Lu is recognized for her work organizing the 2020 IDETC-CIE Student Hackathon.

Moneer Helu is Recognized for Leadership in Smart Manufacturing Standards

Recognized for leadership in smart manufacturing standards and technology development.

Moneer Helu is Recognized as an Outstanding, Early-Career Engineer

Recognized as an outstanding, early-career engineer invited to an intensive symposium to facilitate interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge

Shaw C. Feng is Recognized with the Eli Whitney Productivity Award

Shaw C. Feng is recognized with the Eli Whitney Productivity Award for his outstanding contributions to using efficiently linked data to

Kevin Jurrens Receives ASTM Award of Merit, with accompanying title of ASTM Fellow

For extraordinary productivity, outstanding contribution, and unwavering leadership in developing standards related to Additive

Michael Brundage Serves as the 2019-2020 ASME ECLIPSE Internship

ASME's Early Career Leadership Intern Program to Serve Engineering (ECLIPSE) is a competitive leadership development program that believes

Paul Witherell Receives Outstanding Alumni Award 2020

Dr. Witherell's research efforts aim to leverage engineering and information sciences to benefit design flexibility, cost, and cycle times

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NIST Proposes Approach for Reducing Risk of Bias in Artificial Intelligence

June 22, 2021

In an effort to counter the often pernicious effect of biases in artificial intelligence (AI) that can damage people’s lives and public trust in AI, the

Work with SID

Research in SID Find out more about the type of research that we're doing in SID. Collaboration opportunities SID offers many research...

Proposal for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence (SP 1270)

This document has been superseded by a final version, NIST Special Publication 1270.

Escape From Flatland: Calibration Method Enables Microscopes to Make Accurate Measurements in All 3 Dimensions

June 24, 2021

Conventional microscopes provide essential information about samples in two dimensions — the plane of the microscope slide. But flat is not all that. In many

Major New Building Standard Can Map Out Tornado Threat for the First Time

June 21, 2021

Of the natural hazards in Mother Nature’s arsenal, tornadoes are some of the most vicious. But while other hazards are regularly considered in building designs

NICE eNewsletter Summer 2021

Subscribe to the NICE eNewsletter welcome Welcome to the summer 2021 issue of the NICE eNewsletter. I am thrilled to be introducing this...

New Standard for Vaccine Fridges Unveiled

June 17, 2021

You know that part of your fridge that always freezes your lettuce? Or the section in your freezer door that leaves your popsicles a little mushy? Different

NIST Food Nutrition and Safety Quality Assurance Program Launches New Exercise

January 21, 2022

The second exercise of the NIST Food Nutrition and Safety Quality Assurance Program (FNSQAP) is underway. FNSQAP helps food laboratories demonstrate measurement

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NIST Updates Database Used for Designing Advanced Materials

No one can say with absolute certainty what will happen in the future. But scientists can predict the future state of advanced materials very precisely using

ITL Chief of Staff Elham Tabassi to serve on newly formed National AI Research Resource Task Force

June 16, 2021

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation announced the formation of the National Artificial Intelligence (AI)

NICE eNewsletter Summer 2021 Industry Spotlight

Remove the Guesswork in Cybersecurity Hiring with Simulation-Based Assessments Let job candidates demonstrate their actual capabilities By...

NICE eNewsletter Summer 2021 Academic Spotlight

New Portal Offers Search of 100+ STEM Training Opportunities at Federal Agencies By Dr. Diana Weber, Communications and Public Affairs...

June 10-11 2021 NCSTAC Meeting

NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION SAFETY TEAM ADVISORY COMMITTEE (NCSTAC) MEETING June 10-11, 2021 Web Conference NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS &...

NIST has developed the Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL 1.0.0)

June 15, 2021

NIST has developed the Open Security Controls Assessment Language, which is a multi-format framework that allows security professionals to automate security

Postdoctoral Position at the NCNR June 2021

This project is a collaborative effort between NCNR and a major pharmaceutical company. We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral...

5754 Laboratory Administration Workshop - Online

Thu, Nov 4 2021, 2:00pm - Thu, Jan 20 2022, 4:00pm EST

The Online Laboratory Administration Workshop is designed for State weights and measures laboratory staff to help them

NIST Now Analyzing Software Supply Chain Workshop Discussions, Position Papers

More than 1400 participants took part in the June 2-3, 2021, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) workshop on enhancing the...

Register Today for the Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Webinar on Hiring Assessments

June 10, 2021

2021 Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Webinar Series The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education and the Office of Personnel Management are pleased to

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NIST Seeks Public Input on Removing Barriers to Voting for People With Disabilities

June 16, 2021

To help foster wider access to voting, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting information from the public about barriers that

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The NCCoE Releases Preliminary Draft Report on Ransomware Risk Management

June 10, 2021

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a new preliminary draft report, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Forensic Science Internships at NIST – A look at Cannabis Compounds

June 10, 2021

By: Christina Reed Maryam Abdur-Rahman is a Montgomery County Community College (MCCC) intern conducting forensic science research with NIST’s Cannabis team in

Validating A.I. Pipelines for Analysis of Live Cell Image Data

Imaging of living cells over time provides unparalleled data of the dynamic cellular characteristics that give rise to complex biological functions

Ransomware Risk Management: Preliminary Draft NISTIR 8374 Available for Comment

June 9, 2021

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a new Preliminary Draft report, NIST Interagency or Internal Report ( NISTIR) 8374

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