3D Printing of Steel, Inca Empire Standards, Breakthrough Prize

Also in this issue: Hurricane Maria and Champlain Towers South updates, Industrial Advisory Committee members named

View as a Web Page A biweekly news digest from the National Institute of Standards and Technology SEPTEMBER 29, 2022 Champlain Towers South Investigation Completes Site Testing, Announces Next Advisory Committee Meeting Members of the National Construction Safety Team have collected data to help improve computer models that will be used to evaluate potential causes of the June 2021 building collapse. READ MORE   Researchers Uncover How to 3D-Print One of the Strongest Stainless Steels High-energy X-rays allowed researchers to find the materials that worked best in the additive manufacturing process. READ MORE   NIST Reports Progress on Hurricane Maria Study As Puerto Rico recovers from Hurricane Fiona, NIST's Hurricane Maria investigation continues, with the goal of making communities more resilient to powerful storms. READ MORE Historic Measures: How Standards and Technology Enabled the Inca Empire to Thrive As we celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, a NIST researcher reflects on the measurement and engineering achievements of the Inca of the South American Andes. READ MORE NIST postdoctoral researcher Polette Centellas aims speeding microparticles at materials meant for the harsh environments of sky and space. Fly to Facebook and learn how she made her way to NIST. MORE NEWS FROM NIST U.S. Department of Commerce Appoints First Members to Industrial Advisory Committee The recently established committee will advise on CHIPS for America's R&D efforts. NIST Awards Funding for Educational Programs on a Circular Economy to Reduce Plastic Waste NIST has awarded $500,000 to each of five universities to develop new curricula for students who are interested in helping to solve the growing problem of plastic waste. NIST Awards Funding to Small Businesses to Advance Technologies for COVID Response, Manufacturing, Medical Diagnostics and More More than $7 million in funding will go to 23 U.S. small businesses in 14 states via NIST's Small Business Innovation Research program. NIST Awards Funding to 5 Universities to Advance Standards Education The disciplines supported by this year's awards include infrastructure improvement and resilience, building information modeling, nanomaterials engineering, aerospace, robotics and sustainability. AWARDS AND HONORS NIST Physicist Adam Kaufman Wins Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize Kaufman was recognized for his work in advancing the control of atoms and molecules to improve atomic clocks and quantum information processing. Malcolm Ammons, a NIST research structural engineer who grew up in Florida, describes his work on the Champlain Towers South collapse investigation. Watch now on YouTube. For Good Measure NIST is the kind of place where you regularly learn something new and interesting, not only about science and technology but also other fields such as history. This has certainly been true during our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. I never knew about the khipu, the Incas' complex data-recording device, until NIST mechanical engineer Natascha Milesi-Ferretti wrote about it in a fascinating essay for our Taking Measure blog. If you enjoyed Natascha's post, you might also enjoy the earlier NIST blog post on pre-Columbian weights and measures, as well as a post devoted to the standard of length known as the Mexican vara. —Ben P. Stein, Managing Editor

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