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A biweekly news digest from the
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
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NIST Provides Update on Champlain Towers South Investigation
Work continues on determining the cause of the 2021 tragedy and developing science-based recommendations to improve building safety.
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New Smoke Alarms Are Better at Detecting Fires but Still Beep for Bacon
NIST research in a kitchen fire laboratory shows that updated smoke detectors still produce nuisance alarms during cooking.
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Keepers of the Right Answer: Why Measurements at NIST Are Important for the Nation and the World
Practically everything you use in your everyday life works because of measurement science.
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Curiosity to Career: Encouraging Students to Pursue STEM Education
A NIST researcher is volunteering to educate young students about life as a scientist — and encourage kids to envision a career for themselves in STEM.
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EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
On Oct. 14-19, join NICE in promoting awareness and exploration of cybersecurity careers by hosting an event, participating in an event near you, or engaging students with cybersecurity content!
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MORE NEWS FROM NIST |
The new center of excellence will establish and coordinate research teams that combine resources from the physical, biological and social sciences.
The joint center to support cooperative research and experimentation for the test and evaluation of modern AI capabilities and tools will be housed on university's campus in Pittsburgh.
This CHIPS investment is expected to nearly double U.S. production capacity of sensor and power chips at the Bloomington, Minnesota, manufacturing facility.
The grants will go to 15 education and community organizations in 11 states that are working to address the nation’s shortage of skilled cybersecurity employees.
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 Have you ever had a smoke alarm go off while you’re cooking? Nuisance alarms are more than just annoying. They can be dangerous if they cause people to deactivate their alarms. Learn about the latest NIST research on smoke alarms in our new video on YouTube.
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For Good Measure
Unlike NASA, the FBI and the Social Security Administration, NIST’s mission is not easy to explain in a nutshell. So we were very grateful to NIST’s chief metrologist, Jim Olthoff, for marvelously encapsulating so much of what NIST does in his recent blog post, Keepers of the Right Answer: Why Measurements at NIST Are Important for the Nation and the World. I highly recommend it if you’d like to get a big-picture view of NIST. And if you work at NIST, it’s a great piece to which you can point your friends and relatives who want to know more about what we do. If you would like to see other big-picture descriptions of NIST’s work, check out Why You Need Standards, Measurements Matter and Busting Myths About the Metric System.
—Ben P. Stein, Managing Editor
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