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National Institute of Standards and Technology Recognizes Staff Achievements
Release Date: 12/05/2012

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recognized current and former employees in an awards ceremony … more

NIST and Forest Service Create World’s First Hazard Scale for Wildland Fires
Release Date: 12/05/2012

USFS Contact: Yasmeen Sands 360-753-7716 GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Two federal agencies have teamed to create the first-ever system for linking … more

Baldrige and Health Care: New Survey Reaffirms a Proven Partnership for Success
Release Date: 12/04/2012

For the second time in two years, Truven Health Analytics, a major health care survey research and data analysis organization, has linked … more

Conferences and Events
Model-Based Enterprise Summit 
December 11-13, 2012

The purpose of the Summit is to identify challenges, research, implementation issues, and lessons learned in manufacturing and quality assurance … more

Dramatic Changes in Polar Ice: Are We Waking Sleeping Giants?
December 11, 2012

From disappearing Arctic sea ice to the rapid acceleration of Greenland and Antarctica’s outlet glaciers, the Earth’s ice cover is … more

NIST Health IT Symposium Series - December 2012
December 13, 2012

To introduce innovative health IT R&D; to NIST’s researchers working in health IT and to increase collaborations. more