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Organizational Excellence Accolades 2026
Use the quick links below to navigate to each category of 2026 Organizational Excellence Accolades. There, you'll find a description of the accolade and the list of awardees and their contributions.
- Excellence in MML Administration
- MML Mentor
- MML Outreach
- Service in Professional Organizations
- Excellence in MML Safety
- Service and Support to MML
Excellence in MML Administration
To recognize MML or NIST employees or associates who have gone above and beyond in serving MML staff, associates, and/or stakeholders in their administrative roles or through an administrative function.
Jessie Cahoon
Kim Stavish
Megan Tran
For exceptional leadership, innovation, and execution in adapting MML administrative systems to meet evolving mission-critical requirements.
Laurell Phillips and Roxanne Queen
For outstanding support to the Chemical Sciences Division staff by serving as a limited bank card holder.
Bottom row: Andrew Uribe (left) and Robin McHale (right).
Wendi Copello
Willa Mayns
Robin McHale
Andrew Uribe
For providing excellent, consistent and rapid administrative support to CHIPS Metrology projects in division 647.
MML Mentor
To recognize an MML employee or associate who has played a significant role in the support and guidance of others at NIST, including students and postdocs.
For excellent mentorship of undergraduate students from multiple institutions in federal research and career development.
For outstanding mentoring of a UMD/NIST graduate student, advancing measurement science in the area of nanoparticle measurements.
For providing exceptional leadership, comprehensive training, and succession planning for administrative staff, enhancing organizational capability and ensuring strong operational readiness.
MML Outreach
To recognize MML employees and associates who played a significant role in educational outreach to the community.
Molly Knybel
Lauren Mullen
Erica Romsos
Peter Vallone
For organizing high quality, in-person continuing education for local Forensic DNA practitioners annually in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Bottom row (left to right) Sumona Sarkar, Khavin Suong, Tam-Anh Tran, and Catherine Zander.
Dawn Henke
Steven Lund
David Newton
Laura Pierce
Sumona Sarkar
Khavin Suong
Tam-Anh Tran
Catherine Zander
For developing and implementing a hands-on training course on ISO cell counting standards to strengthen the biotechnology workforce.
Service in Professional Organizations
To recognize those in MML who serve with distinction in professional organizations that further the NIST mission.
For outstanding service to the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
For visionary leadership in the North American Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS), bridging the gap between polymer science and semiconductor packaging through innovative educational programming and webinars.
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 improving access and organization of Incident Reporting and Investigation System (IRIS) safety reports, enabling efficient retrieval of relevant information aligned work in the Biomolecular Measurement Division.
Middle row: (Left to right) Young Jong Lee, Yong Li, Nancy Lin, Alshae’ Logan, Kirsten Parratt, and Laura Pierce.
Bottom row: (Left to right) Carlos Renteria, Antonio Marcos Saraiva, Sumona Sarkar, Siddharth Singh, Jiha Sung (not pictured), and Huda Usman.
Greta Babakhanova, Charles Camp, Sandra Da Silva, Joy Dunkers, Melis Kant, Da Bin Kim, Young Jong Lee, Yong Li, Nancy Lin, Alshae’ Logan, Kirsten Parratt, Laura Pierce, Carlos Renteria, Antonio Marcos Saraiva, Sumona Sarkar, Siddharth Singh, Jiha Sung, Huda Usman
For establishing a protocol that enabled their Group, and all MML staff, to safely assess and dispose of legacy chemicals.
Service and Support to MML
To recognize MML employees and associates, as well as those in other OUs, who have made MML a better place to work, have gone above and beyond to provide technical and/or administrative support, or who have streamlined processes to make MML operate more efficiently.
For extraordinary technical troubleshooting and proactive emergency response, successfully restoring critical analytical instrumentation and preventing a facility shutdown.
William (Bill) Clark
Daniel Dender
Julie Leonard
Jody Sandel
For demonstrating exceptional initiative, collaboration, and leadership in supporting the Operating Unit's (OU) contract and procurement planning processes.
For exceptional leadership in optimizing BBD operations and bridging technical research with administrative excellence in support of the NIST mission.
Cecelia Foote
Saikat Kumar Ghosh
J'aime Maynard
For providing exceptional support in the management of NIST consortia and CRADA execution.
For outstanding, unwavering support and development of CDCS instances powering multiple public-facing MML data repositories and registries.
For exceptional procurement support for MML and CHIPS Initiatives.