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Office of the Director

Awards

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2017 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Jared Ragland

For designing and developing data-handling tools for qualitative and quantitative analysis of environmental samples.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Kathryn Butler, Susanne Furman

For development of science-based guidance on the use of evacuation elevators that enhances the safety of people with mobility impairments during fire emergencies.

2017 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---Julia Bachinski

For outstanding leadership, service and innovation in administrative services enabling the world-class success of JILA in research and training.

2017 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---John Teufel

For pioneering breakthroughs in the nascent field of quantum optomechanics that are providing the practical means to preserve and transfer information across the components of future quantum computing devices

2017 - Gold Medal Award---Ari D. Feldman, Sheryl M. Genco, Michael D. Janezic, Azizollah Kord, Daniel G. Kuester, John M. Ladbury, Duncan A. McGillivray, Adam J. Wunderlich, Wen-Bin Yang, William F. Young

For developing a test methodology and performing measurements to quantitatively assess the impact of LTE signals on the performance of GPS receivers.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Boualem Hammouda

For development of the expansive SANS Toolbox, which has benefitted many hundreds of NCNR facility users and is freely available via the web.

2017 - Edward Bennett Rosa Award---Martin J. Burns, Steve T. Bushby, Evan K. Wallace

For technical work and leadership in the development and approval of the Facility Smart Grid Information Model as a new international standard.

2017 - Presidential Rank Award---Ron Ross

For his research and leadership in reducing the risk of cybersecurity threats through the creation of NIST's cybersecurity Risk Management Framework (RMF) and the development of a library of supporting NIST technical standards and technical guidelines.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Conrad Bock

For outstanding technical leadership and contributions to a standardized systems-modeling language (SysML) used in advanced manufacturing industries.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Nancy J. Lin

For deployment of a quantitative yeast material that enables safe on-site training for first responders to increase confidence in biothreat detection.

2017 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Carol A. Driver

For exceptional leadership in the creation of an effective and efficient administrative team after the formation of MML's Chemical Sciences Division.

2017 - Presidential Rank Award---Samuel P. Benz

For his work in developing, improving and disseminating the quantum voltage standards that underpin all precision voltage measurements in the U.S. and in much of the world.

2017 - Colleagues' Choice Award---David Richard Novotny

For establishing the High-Frequency Structural Simulator (HFSS) computer modeling system at NIST for creating complex electromagnetics simulations to assist in research across multiple OUs.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou

For significantly accelerating the deployment of key manufacturing data standards through a novel NIST Messaging Standard Semantic Refinement Tool.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Gordon A. Shaw, III

For pioneering a new, traceable and more accurate basis for U.S. mass measurements in the commercially important range from micrograms to milligrams.

2017 - Safety Award---Jeanne Houston

For outstanding leadership in identifying and implementing safety improvements, and influencing positive change toward safety in PML’s Sensor Science Division.

Hendricks, Strouse, Egan, Scace, Olson, Stone, Ricker

2017 - Gold Medal Award---Patrick Egan, Jay Hendricks, Douglas Olson, Jacob Ricker, Gregory Scace, Jack Stone, Gregory Strouse

For revolutionizing pressure metrology by replacing the existing standard of nearly 4 centuries with a faster and more precise quantum-based method.

Chulock, Quick, Hovis, Montgomery, Diaz, Alderoty, Lauren, Johnson, Carlson

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Dana Rae Diaz, Joan Carlson, John Quick, Lisa Chulock, Jeffrey Harris, Scott Montgomery, LaDonna Lauren, Neil Alderoty, Frances Johnson, Patrick Hovis

For creating the Undelivered Order Review application, significantly automating the return of obligated but undisbursed funds back to OUs across NIST.