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On Friday, May 5th, Marian Merritt, the Lead for Industry Engagement at the National initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), participated in a Department...
Twenty-four organizations from a variety of sectors and U.S. states have submitted applications for the 2017 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Reflecting...
In late April 2017, Davina Pruitt-Mentle, NICE Lead for Academic Engagement, participated in multiple events across Michigan to help strengthen state and...
Congratulations iQ4 and the National Student Clearinghouse for being awarded 1st place in PESC’s 18th Annual Best Practices Competition! The award-winning...
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In the first decade after the invention of the laser one challenge to improving laser quality was the distortion of a laser’s rod due to absorption of heat...
The air we breathe out can help us improve the quality of the air we breathe in.
Measurements of indoor carbon dioxide (CO 2) concentrations are used to...
President Abraham Lincoln’s first handwritten draft of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, a historic document in the collection of the New York State...
Roche Sequencing Solutions engineer Juraj Topolancik was looking for a way to decode DNA from cancer patients in a matter of minutes.
Rajesh Krishnamurthy...
When you suffer a fall, an on-the-field collision or some other traumatic blow, the first thing the doctor will do is take an X-ray, CT scan or MRI to determine...
NIST has been granted a patent for technology that may hasten the advent of a long-awaited new generation of high-performance, low-energy computers....
NIST scientists have developed a novel automated probe system for evaluating the performance of computer components designed to run 100 times faster than today...
Sixteen executives have been selected to the prestigious Baldrige Executive Fellows Program, the only executive leadership fellowship that provides one-on-one...
The newly designated CAE-Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) Resource Centers have been announced! These Centers are a network of participating CAE-CD institutions that will...
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is proud to announce the completion of the year-long Baldrige Executive Fellows Program by 18 senior leaders...
How do jumbo jet designers develop resilient materials for modern airframes, while still bringing in their projects on time and on budget? Before they prototype...
GPS usually works great outdoors, but what if you’re disoriented in a large building such as a museum or a mall? There are no smartphone apps for indoor...
Rodney Petersen, Director of NICE, participated in a panel discussion on the topic of “Building Capacity to Meet Talent Needs” at the Technology Councils of...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (Academies) has joined as the first non-agency cosponsor of the Community Resilience Panel for...
In movies and television, computers can quickly identify a person in a crowded arena from tiny, grainy video images. But that is often not the reality when it...
Using a state-of-the-art microscopy technique, experimenters at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have witnessed a...