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Five U.S. Organizations to Receive the 2009 Baldrige National Quality AwardThey are honored for outstanding innovation and performance excellence
Mon, 12/07/2009 - 17:06
(NIST: Washington) -- President Barack Obama and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke recently announced that five organizations are the recipients of the 2009 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest presidential honor for innovation… Biden, Locke Present Baldrige Award to Three OrganizationsOne health care, one manufacturing, one school selected from 85 organizations.
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 12:42
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- On Dec. 2, Vice President Joe Biden, and U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gary Locke, presented three U.S. organizations with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest honor for innovation and… Small Nanoparticles Bring Big Improvement to Medical ImagingGlow dot glow!
Mon, 11/23/2009 - 13:49
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- If you’re watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important—especially if you are watching changes that take a long time to unfold and require high-spatial-resolution imaging. But… Baldrige Program Calls for ExaminersDeadline for applications is 2 p.m. EST on Jan. 7, 2010.
Mon, 11/23/2009 - 11:33
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Each year the Baldrige Program recruits experts from business, education organizations, health care providers, nonprofit organizations, and other groups to serve on the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige… Baldrige Award Application for 2010 AvailableDownloadable eligibility and application forms
Wed, 11/04/2009 - 13:12
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Eligibility and application forms for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award are now available on the Baldrige web site. The Baldrige Award Application Forms booklet includes instructions for the two-step Malcolm… Scientists Build First ‘Frequency Comb’ To Display Visible ‘Teeth’Could expand capabilities of communications, surveillance, optical pattern recognition, remote sensing and more.
Tue, 11/03/2009 - 07:46
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name. Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have built the… First "Frequency Comb" To Display Visible "Teeth"Applications in communications, surveillance, optical pattern recognition, remote sensing and high-speed computing technologies.
Tue, 11/03/2009 - 04:30
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name.
Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have built… Is Your Microrobot Up for the (NIST) Challenge?Get ready for the 2010 NIST Mobile Microrobotics Challenge.
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 16:57
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The scientists and engineers who introduced the world to tiny robots demonstrating soccer skills are creating the next level of friendly competition designed to advance microrobotics—the field devoted to the construction… NIST Reveals Method for Calibrating WaveformsNew method improves accuracy in calibrations of oscilloscopes.
Tue, 10/06/2009 - 15:30
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has unveiled a method for calibrating entire waveforms—graphical shapes showing how electrical signals vary over time—rather than just parts of waveforms as is current practice. The new… New Beryllium Reference Material for Occupational Safety MonitoringMaterial to dramatically improve methods used to monitor workers’ exposure and aid in contamination control.
Wed, 09/30/2009 - 15:00
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with private industry and other government agencies, have produced a new reference material for beryllium. Beryllium, an exotic…
