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Awards Received by NIST Employees

Keyword

Organizational Unit

2018 - Director's Award for Excellence in Administration---William Clark

For exemplary technical proficiency in developing reports to assist OUs in managing contracts and grants, improving the organizational health of NIST.

2018 - Judson C. French Award---Catherine Cooksey, Thomas A. Germer, Heather J. Patrick, Clarence J. Zarobila

For replacing the prevailing reflectance measurement technology of the last 20 years with a novel robotic facility, lowering costs and turnaround time.

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.

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.

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 - Edward Bennett Rosa Award---Bala Muralikrishnan, Prem Rachakonda, Meghan Shilling, Roger Bostelman, Geraldine Cheok, Joseph Falco, Marek Franaszek, Jeremy Marvel, Kamel Saidi, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud

For outstanding contributions to ASTM standards for performance evaluation of 3D imaging systems used in a wide range of critical applications.

2018 - William P. Slichter Award---B. Robert Ilic

For developing a novel software package that overcomes long-standing problems with the design and fabrication of nanoscale curved geometries.

2018 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Savelas A. Rabb, Robert D. Vocke

For key contributions to the international redefinition of the kilogram resulting from breakthrough advances in the measurement of molar mass.

2018 - George A. Uriano Award---Patricia R. Toth

For leadership in the publication of NIST Handbook 162 to assist U.S. manufacturers with implementing critical cybersecurity protections.

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 - George A. Uriano Award---Jacqueline DesChamps

For providing exemplary service to support key Baldrige programs, oversee OU-wide support services, and manage and provide customer-service functions.

2018 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Patrick Murphy

For exemplary leadership on critical projects preserving scientific equipment, and for stewardship of the NIST grounds, gaining accolades from Montgomery County and state of Maryland.

2018 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Andrew Daniels

For initiative in developing a consolidated equipment-operations-monitoring system that increases efficiencies in operation of the Gaithersburg Plant.

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 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Wyatt Miller

For advancing surface-temperature metrology and its real-world applications, including a novel web-based shipment-monitoring system.

2018 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Annie J. Smith

For exceptional administrative service in the establishment and operation of NIST's Communications Technology Laboratory and NIST Boulder Laboratories.

2018 - Safety Award---Jeremy Garst

For planning and implementing an emergency spill/flood-control kit program for the NIST Boulder campus to mitigate flood damage on the campus.

2018 - Safety Award---Cher Davis

For leadership in the promotion of workplace safety at the Hollings Marine Laboratory and NIST Gaithersburg campus.

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---Gilberto Castillo, José Colucci-Rios, Brian Lagas, Adelwiza Lequin, Anne-Louise Marquis, J. Michael Simpson, Gloria Solomon, Kenneth P. Voytek, Jedd Vertman

For expedited, cross-agency funding and program support of MEP Centers to assist manufacturers impacted by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.

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.