NIST engineer Jazalyn Dukes’ fascination with bridges as a child led to her interest in the structures and engineering behind them. Learn about how this fascination helped her build a career protecting people and buildings from natural disasters: nist.gov/blogs/taking-m…

Congrats to NIST and JQI researchers and their colleagues for being awarded the 2023 UMD Quantum Invention of the Year Award! Researchers developed a method that uses atoms to help count photons, which could be useful in areas like quantum computers: today.umd.edu/groundbreaking…

Congratulations to National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Mike Schmidt and the Program Office team, nominated for a Sammie for implementing the $39B CHIPS Incentives Program.
The Partnership #Sammies2024 #PSRW #CHIPSforAmerica
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Congratulations to Jeffrey A. Sherman for winning the 2023 Arthur S. Fleming Award! Sherman is recognized for his leadership and management over the atomic clock ensemble, which serves as the nation’s source of official time. Learn more: mediarelations.gwu.edu/2023-arthur-s-…

More than 1,2000 tornadoes touch down in the U.S. every year – causing dozens of deaths. Until now, building codes didn’t require buildings to be designed for tornado resilience. That’s changing as a result of findings by two NIST researchers. Learn more: nist.gov/blogs/taking-m…

The future of medicine lies in your poop. NIST is laying the foundation for a new era of feces-derived pills to treat everything from irritable bowel disease to cancer. Learn more: nist.gov/health/future-…

At National Institute of Standards and Technology, Take Our Kids to Work Day included presentations by a Nobel prize-winning scientist and a former astronaut! A welcome message from Dr. Laurie Locascio, the National Institute of Standards and TechnologyDirector and the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology led off the day.

Congrats to Kate Beers who has been appointed NIST’s new director of the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML)! Beers joined the agency in 2000 and recently managed NIST’s Circular Economy Program. Learn more: nist.gov/news-events/ne…

NIST researchers on our Boulder, Colorado, campus participated in Find Your Place in Space Week by showing how some of their research is used in space! Check out some of the photos of our researchers.

Cities looking to reduce their climate impact, first need to figure out the best ways to do that. Measuring greenhouse gases – like carbon dioxide – is one such way. Learn more about NIST’s efforts to create a low-cost sensor platform for this work: nist.gov/news-events/ne…

It was a beautiful day for a run! The annual Spring 1K/5K fun run/walk was held on the National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD campus. Pictured here are our very own NIST MEP staff who enjoyed the opportunity to compete and socialize with colleagues from the labs and other parts of NIST.

Can team-based policies and culture shifts help make STEMM a more welcoming place for caregivers to work in? Check out this partially funded NIST report from National Academies that gives key recommendations to improve support for family caregivers in STEMM: nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/27416…

The U.S. Commerce Dept. announced new action items related to the Executive Order on AI, such as a new program called NIST GenAI Challenge. It will evaluate and measure generative AI technologies. Learn more about the challenge and the other action items: nist.gov/news-events/ne…

John “Ben” Mates spent a decade perfecting a technique to read out signals from sensors that measure tiny changes in the intensity of heat in the cosmic microwave background. Check out how his work is helping to test a theory of how the universe was born: nist.gov/blogs/taking-m…

Congrats to Cybersecurity @ NIST's Cybersecurity Framework Team for being awarded the Ecosystem Champion Award for their efforts in publishing the Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, which will help organizations of all sizes manage cyber risks. Learn more: nist.gov/awards/nist-aw…

#NEWS : Following the 180-day mark since President Biden' Executive Order on the Safe, Secure & Trustworthy Development of #AI , we announced draft guidance documents, a draft plan for international standards, & a new measurement program opening for public comment. commerce.gov/news/press-rel…

In 1972, NIST researcher Ken Evenson and his group made a world record measurement of the speed of light using new techniques they developed to produce laser light with a stable frequency. Learn more about how accurate the measurement was: nist.gov/timeline#event…

Not all heroes fight villains who can destroy worlds with the snap of their fingers. Some are fighting to protect something much closer to home: the accuracy and precision of our measurements. Check out NIST’s SI Superheroes: nist.gov/education/meet…

#SuperheroDay

What if doctors could somehow identify who needs a vaccine against an emerging virus? That’s what NIST biologist Jerilyn Izac and her team are researching by using measurement science to test antibodies. Learn more: nist.gov/blogs/taking-m…

#WorldImmunizationWeek

The flash from a camera doesn’t just illuminate a background. It can also cause a popping sound with soot. Check out KUNC’s news story on how NIST researchers are measuring the sound of soot, which could help with wildfire safety: kunc.org/news/2024-04-1…