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              2021 - Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal---Callie HigginsDr. Higgins Invented a potentially revolutionary technology to detect and remedy microscopic flaws that threaten the safety/reliability of 3D-printed products.
  2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Robert Commarota, Cerasela Constantin, Sushama Singh , Simon Frechette , Eric Shirley, Andrea Medina-Smith, Elisabeth Mansfield, Douglas Montgomery, Peter Gehring, Fernando J. CintronFor development of an IT system to modernize and simplify NIST's publication processes
  Callie Higgins Honored for Service to AmericaCallie Higgins was named a 2021 Emerging Leader for inventing a groundbreaking technology to detect and remedy microscopic flaws that
  2019 - Distinguished Mentoring Award---Jason KillgoreFor his tireless ability to motivate mentees to be inquisitive and innovative while guiding scientific research to impactful new directions.
  2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Jason P. KillgoreFor pioneering viscoelastic AFM, a quantitative method for mapping mechanical properties of materials with nanometer-scale spatial resolution.
  2016 - Silver Medal Award---Robert KellerFor pioneering a revolutionary method that improves the spatial resolution of scanning electron microscope-based electron diffraction by more than an order of magnitude.
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