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A Biweekly News Digest From The
National Institute of Standards and Technology
June 26, 2018
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New NIST research could bring down the cost of making nickels.
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Inventing a scientifically important tool helped to launch a new small business.
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NIST staff received an Emmy for the documentary, "Detective X: (Re) Discovering Wilmer Souder," about NIST's pioneering forensic scientist.
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After completing a NIST NRC postdoctoral fellowship, chemist Gloria Thomas returned to Louisiana State University, where she is now director of LSU's Center for Academic Excellence.
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NIST’s leadership in developing standards is providing this emerging industry with the assurance it needs to innovate.
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NIST develops and disseminates medical phantoms to help ensure that medical images provide reliable and measurable information.
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NIST's road to obtaining a clone of the famous tree is as tangled as its searching roots.
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The NIST Public Safety Communications Research program recently announced the winners of the final stages of two challenges. Read about the latest winners of the Virtual Reality Heads Up Display Navigation Challenge and the 2018 Unmanned Aerial Systems Flight and Payload Challenge.
July 30, 2018, is the last day to submit responses to NIST’s May 1 Request for Information on the public’s ability to engage with federal labs and to access federally funded R&D through collaborations, licensing and other mechanisms.
Economic Analysis:
A new report published by RTI International shows that investing in research infrastructure for developing advanced materials could generate between $123 and $270 billion per year in benefits for U.S. companies and consumers. The report was funded by NIST and a brief can be found here.
Conference:
The International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies (ISART) conference facilitates collaboration on groundbreaking developments and applications of advanced radio technologies. This year's conference, from July 24-28 in Broomfield, Colorado, centers on next-generation wireless propagation models. Cutoff for hotel reservations is July 9, 2018.
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 Watch the NIST video that just won an Emmy! A scientist and a historian at NIST team up to discover the mostly forgotten history of Wilmer Souder, a scientist who worked at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) from 1911 to 1954.
Learn more in the NIST feature, "Who Was Detective X?"
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