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Organizational Excellence Accolades 2024
Use the quick links below to navigate to each category of Organizational Excellence Accolades. There, you'll find a description of the accolade and the list of awardees and their contributions
- Excellence in MML Administration
- Excellence in MML Safety
- MML Mentor
- MML Outreach
- Service in Professional Organizations
- Service and Support to MML
Excellence in MML Administration
To recognize those in MML or at NIST who have gone above and beyond in serving MML staff, associates, and/or stakeholders in their administrative roles or through an administrative function.
For providing sustained high-quality service to the Bioprocess Measurement Group and the Mass Spectrometry Data Center, often taking initiative beyond the scope of their duties to ensure smooth administrative operations.
For her exceptional commitment and perseverance in supporting the management team throughout the budget reduction initiative.
Excellence in MML Safety
To recognize, encourage, and reward safety-related leadership, innovation, preventative or corrective actions, or the implementation of best practices in MML.
For swiftly rendering aid and assistance to a colleague experiencing a medical emergency, which enabled a timeline-critical intervention by emergency medical personnel.
MML Mentor
To recognize an MML staff member or associate who has played a significant role in the support and guidance of others at NIST including students and postdocs.
For being an outstanding mentor to postdoc and early career researchers in additive materials design and computational material modeling.
For dedication to transferring knowledge, imparting a thorough understanding of measurement science, and fostering growth opportunities, which has significantly accelerated the learning journey for many NIST colleagues.
For excellence in mentoring students and post-docs in the NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center.
For exceptional commitment to mentoring of early career staff as the team launched a new program in carbon capture in the Materials Science and Engineering Division.
MML Outreach
To recognize MML staff members and associates who played a significant role in educational outreach to the community.
For exemplary work in managing all aspects of the NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center's trade show booth at the annual American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference over the last six years.
Service in Professional Organizations
To recognize those in MML who serve with distinction in professional organizations that further the NIST mission.
For professional dedication and service to multiple proteomics organizations, demonstrating exemplary commitment to engaging and expanding the proteomics and mass spectrometry community while highlighting NIST's role in advancing proteomics measurements.
For exemplary leadership and outstanding service to the NIST Chapter of Sigma Xi to promote scientific excellence and provide research career development and networking opportunities for all NIST staff and associates.
Service and Support to MML
To recognize MML staff members and associates, as well as those in other OUs, who have made MML a better place to work, have gone the extra mile to help MML staff ‘get the job done,’ or who have streamlined processes to make MML operate more efficiently.
For exemplary dedication to securing vital information resources via interlibrary loan and digital document fulfillment, ensuring MML customers receive precise and timely support, fostering positive engagements through enthusiasm and reliability.
Sherri Diaz, Nancy Parrish, Francisco Balicao, Timothy Day
For providing exceptional service to the MML labs to obtain funding for critically needed equipment and technical staff to support MML measurement services.
For exemplary dedication to researching critical information, facilitating informed decision-making at MML, enhancing industry insight, and identifying opportunities for metrology and standardization.
For exceptional statistical support to MML cell counting efforts, including conceptualization of experimental designs, leadership and innovation in statistical analyses, presentation of results for international metrology groups, and critical contributions to publications communicating research results.