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Popular Business Performance Excellence Guide Now Available For Healthcare, Education Organizations

February 9, 1998

Criteria designed to help healthcare and education organizations improve their processes and overall performance are available now from the Commerce Department...

Popular Business Performance Excellence Guide Now Available For Healthcare Provider Organizations

February 9, 1998

Criteria designed to help all healthcare organizations, such as managed care systems, hospitals and home healthcare agencies, improve their services, processes...

Popular Business Performance Excellence Guide Now Available For Education Organizations

February 9, 1998

Criteria designed to help education organizations improve their services and overall performance are available now from the Commerce Department’s National...

'Baldrige Index' Outperforms S&P 500 For Fourth Year

February 9, 1998

For the fourth year in a row, the fictitious "Baldrige Index" has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 by almost 3 to 1, says the Commerce Department’s...

Atomic Clock In Space to Reach New Heights Of Accuracy

January 20, 1998

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology soon will begin work on an advanced laser-cooled cesium atomic clock that will be placed on...

NIST To Evaluate Evaluators of Water Quality Testing

January 16, 1998

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced draft guidelines to accredit commercial vendors to evaluate drinking and wastewater analysis...

Power Doubling For WWVB Could Help Keep You On Time In 1998

January 5, 1998

For everyone who made a New Year's resolution to be more on time for meetings and events in 1998, there's good news from the Commerce Department's National...

President Clinton Today Presents 1997 Baldrige Award to Four U.S. Companies

December 19, 1997

President Clinton and Commerce Secretary William Daley today presented the 1997 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award to four American companies in...

NIST Urges U.S. Companies to Use Baldrige Quality Award Process as Improvement Tool

December 18, 1997

American companies can improve the way they do business by applying for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, says the Commerce Department's National...

Pioneering Research In X-ray and Neutron Examination of Polymer Films Earns Stratton Award For Wu

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has presented the Samuel Wesley Stratton Award to Wen-Li Wu of the agency’s Materials Science and Engineering...

NIST Equal Employment Opportunity Award Goes to Sunder

December 10, 1997

Sivaraj Shyam Sunder, a resident of BETHESDA, Md., has received the Equal Employment Opportunity Award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

NIST Presents Safety Awards to Two Fire Engineering Technicians

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today recognized two employees for superior efforts in creating and maintaining a safe working environment...

Potomac Resident Billy Mangum Receives NIST Measurement Science Award

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today honored Billy W. Mangum, leader of the Thermometry Group in the Chemical Science and Technology...

NIST Presents Slichter Award to Bur, Migler and Wang For Developing Novel Probes to Control Polymer Processing

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has presented the William P. Slichter Award to Anthony Bur, Kalman Migler and Francis Wang of the agency’s...

NIST To Continue Funding For Northwest Wisconsin Manufacturing Center

November 20, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is providing $320,000 to fund the Northwest Wisconsin Manufacturing Outreach Center...

NIST To Continue Funding For West Virginia Manufacturing Center

November 19, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is providing $529,932 to fund the West Virginia Manufacturing Extension Partnership for...

NIST To Continue Funding For Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center

November 19, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is providing $3.1 million to help fund the Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center for...

NIST To Continue Funding For Delaware Valley Manufacturing Center

November 19, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is providing $1.9 million to fund the Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center...

NIST To Continue Funding For Arizona Manufacturing Center

November 19, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is providing $2.6 million to fund the Industry Network Corporation for its third year...

NIST To Continue Funding For Alabama Manufacturing Center

November 19, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is providing $2.6 million to fund the Alabama Technology Network, Birmingham, for its...

Good For Your Health, Good For Your Wallet

November 12, 1997

U.S. taxpayers are getting more than they pay for from a federal research program designed to ensure accuracy in measurements of radioactive drugs for...

NIST To Continue Funding For Idaho Manufacturing Center

November 10, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is providing $456,000 to fund Idaho TechHelp for its second year of operation. TechHelp...

NIST To Continue Funding For Lake Erie Manufacturing Center

November 10, 1997

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is providing $740,420 to fund the Lake Erie Manufacturing Extension Partnership, Toledo...

NIST And USFA Strengthen Fire-Fighting

November 5, 1997

American fire prevention and firefighting efforts took a step forward today when the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology and...

NIST Physicist William Phillips Wins 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics

October 15, 1997

William D. Phillips, a leading researcher in ultra-low temperature atomic physics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, today was named a co...

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