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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

Awards

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2024 - Edward Bennett Rosa Award---Amy Phelps

For leadership in the development and launch of a new conformity assessment program for the FDA's approval of medical devices for sale in the U.S.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Murugiah Souppaya, Jon M. Boyens , Amy Mahn, Barbara Guttman, Adam Sedgewick, Matthew Scholl, Paul E. Black, Vadim Okun

For strengthening the security of the supply chain for software that delivers critical government services to the nation.

Dadfarnia and Drozdov - no photo for Sharp

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Mehdi Dadfarnia, Serghei Drozdov, Michael Sharp

For developing an open-source manufacturing simulator that enables users to plan production and compare AI-based and traditional maintenance policies.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Justyna P. Zwolak, Jacob Taylor

For pioneering the application of machine learning to the control of systems at the frontiers of quantum science and technology.

2024 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Susan Schima

For excellence in the essential microfabrication work that has enabled multiple generations of chip-scale clocks and quantum sensors.

2024 - George A. Uriano Award---Sarah Hughes, Danni Leicht, Terese Manley, Ellen Ryan

For creating and executing a business accelerator for communication innovations that enhance capabilities of first responders.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Jason Underwood, Albert Rigosi, Alireza Panna, Leon Chao, Dean Jarrett, Randolph Elmquist, Stephan Schlamminger, David Newell, Darine El Haddad

For leveraging quantum physics to develop the world's best standards for the ampere and kilogram, two of the seven fundamental measurement units of science.

Christopher Soles, Katherine Evans, Polette Centellas, Edwin Chan

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Katherine Evans, Christopher Soles, Stephan Stranick, Edwin Chan, Polette Centellas

For the development and deployment of laser-based test methods to quantify the mechanical properties of polymers at ballistic rates of deformation.

2024 - Excellence in Tech Transfer---Brian Washburn, Kevin Cossel, Laura Sinclair, Esther Baumann, Fabrizio Giorgetta, Ian Coddington

For the successful transfer of dual-comb spectroscopy technology to energy, climate, and agricultural industries.

2024 - Presidential Rank Award---John Kitching

Recognized with a Distinguished Rank for sustained extraordinary accomplishments.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Denis Bergeron, Richard Essex, Ryan Fitzgerald, Jacqueline Mann, Shin Muramoto, Svetlana Nour, Gordon Shaw, R. Michael Verkouteren

For pioneering development of instrumentation and methods to precisely dispense and validate milligram quantities of radioactive liquid samples.

2024 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Leon Chao, Zane Comden

For the development of compact Kibble balance technology for mass and torque and its deployment to primary standards laboratories and U.S. industry.

2024 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Tae Joon Cho

For generous giving of time, support, and expertise to many colleagues, resulting in highly productive outcomes for nanomaterial metrology efforts.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Ho Yeung, Brandon Lane

For developing groundbreaking machine control solutions that allow U.S. manufacturers to make better products using additive manufacturing systems.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Shelly Bagchi, Jeremy Marvel, Megan Zimmerman

For developing innovative metrology tools, standards, and global community events to advance technologies for human-robot interaction.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---John Libert, Shahram Orandi, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, Matthew Staymates, Christopher Stafford

For the development of tests and metrics enabling the transition to the next generation of fingerprint acquisition devices.

2024 - B. Stephen Carpenter Award---Robert Bohn

For leadership in establishing and managing an international team to develop a Beyond-5G testbed to advance global communication service and network federation.

2024 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Scott Papp

For pioneering research in the development and applications of microresonator frequency combs and nonlinear nanophotonic systems.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Johannes Hubmayr, James Beall, Shannon Duff, Leila Vale, Michael Link, Tammy Lucas, Michael Vissers, Jeffrey Van Lanen, John Mates, Jason Austermann

For developing the novel sensors that enable the most advanced cosmic microwave background observatory to unravel the mysteries of the early universe.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Lisa Borsuk, John Butler, Katherine Gettings, Kevin Kiesler, Angela Lee, Adam Morey, Karen Ann Price, Erica Romsos, Arlin Stoltzfus, Peter Vallone

For the modernization of the Short Tandem Repeat DNA Internet Database, a key data resource for human identity DNA testing practitioners worldwide.

2024 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Christina Davis, Adrian Mitchell, Laurell Phillips, Karen Smith, Terraine Wiggins, Richard Brogden, Gustavo Moreno, Jared Sawyer, Jason Fellows, Anthony Newman

For providing exceptional service to NIST remote sites, enabling uninterrupted supplies of high-purity gases and liquid helium.