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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

Awards

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2018 - Gold Medal Award---R. Joseph Kline, Daniel Sunday, Donald Windover

For establishing Critical Dimension Small Angle X-ray Scattering as a critical measurement technique for the semiconductor industry.

2018 - B. Stephen Carpenter Award---Michael Lombardi

For creating the SIM Time Network, a collaboration that makes world-class time metrology accessible to 24 nations throughout the Americas.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Peter Mell

For technical achievements, innovation, and leadership in computer-network defense methods used in government and industrial systems.

2018 - Silver Medal Award---Michael Middleton, Robert Williams

For commissioning a liquid deuterium refrigerator essential to ending highly enriched uranium (HEU) use in the NIST reactor while preserving or enhancing facility performance.

2018 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Laurell R. Phillips, Jr.

For exceptional administrative support of MML's Chemical Sciences Division during a period of diminished staffing.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Damian S. Lauria, Peter E. Bradley, Matthew Connolly, Andrew Slifka

For development of in-situ mechanical test methods to facilitate first-ever direct evidence of two H₂ embrittlement theories in structural materials.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Stefan Cular

For exemplary development and delivery of NIST quantum voltage services, extending NIST quality and accuracy to laboratories around the globe.

2018 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Tracey Schock

For tireless dedication to NIST quality in the bioanalytical field of study called omics, becoming a world-class leader in the field while mentoring students and colleagues.

Davis, Avila, Plante, Vanek, Zhang, Chung, Pandya, Medina-Smith, Greene

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Regina L. Avila, Andrea Medina-Smith, Kimberly A. Tryka, Anita Vanek, Thomas Chung, Christopher Davis, Pradip Pandya, Jon Zhang, Gretchen Greene, Raymond Plante

For significantly improving the public's ability to find, access and use NIST data.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Dustin Hite, Dietrich Leibfried, David Pappas, Andrew Wilson

For innovations in surface-science and material-preparation technology that overcame a longstanding barrier to implementing ion-trap quantum computing.

2018 - Gold Medal Award---Marc Levitan, Emil Simiu, Adam Pintar

For extraordinary, innovative efforts to accurately characterize and map extreme winds across the U.S. to ensure a safe and economical built environment.

2018 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Michael Donahue, Donald Porter

For enabling widespread use of nanomagnetic modeling and simulation to enhance U.S. innovation in research and product development.

Leber, Schmitt, Virts, Filliben, Messina, Bostelman

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Roger Bostelman, Elena Messina, David Schmitt, Ann Marie Virts, James Filliben, Dennis Leber

For foundational technical contributions to ASTM F45 performance standards that enable manufacturers to optimize their use of industrial unmanned vehicles.

Boone, Luptak, Sherman, Jenkinson, Levine

2018 - Silver Medal Award---Joseph Boone, William Jenkinson, Joseph Luptak, Aaron Fein, Judah Levine, Jeffrey Sherman

For launching the next-generation NIST Internet Time Service, which handles over 40 billion requests every day.

2018 - George A. Uriano Award---Allison Barnard Feeney, Thomas D. Hedberg, Jr.

For vision, leadership and outstanding contributions to the use of standards in the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Jason P. Killgore

For pioneering viscoelastic AFM, a quantitative method for mapping mechanical properties of materials with nanometer-scale spatial resolution.

2018 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Joshua Martin

For outstanding contributions to the MML metrology and Accolades programs, staff professional growth, organizational innovation, and the Combined Federal Campaign.

2018 - Safety Award---Craig Connelly, Andrew Thompson, Kamel Saidi

For the development and execution of rigorous safety protocols and infrastructure for the NIST Unmanned Aerial Systems Flight and Payload Challenge.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Thomas R. Gentile

For groundbreaking advances in neutron spin-control tools and methods which are now routinely used around the world to advance material science.

2018 - Gold Medal Award---Randolph Elmquist, Dean G. Jarrett, George Robert Jones, Jr., Marlin E. Kraft, Alireza Panna, Shamith Payagala, Albert Rigosi

For a new quantum-based primary resistance standard, replacing a fragile, complex and expensive system with a robust, simple and affordable one.

Podobedov, Curry, Houston, Eppeldauer, Yoon, Shaw

2018 - Judson C. French Award---John J. Curry, George Eppeldauer, Jeanne Houston, Vyacheslav Podobedov, Ping-Shine Shaw, Howard Yoon

For realizing and disseminating the best-in-the-world capability for absolute calibration of optical detectors from the visible to the far infrared.