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James Clark School of Engineering with a secondary appointment in the Department of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine.</p> <p>Before joining the University of Maryland, Dr. Locascio worked at NIST for 31 years, rising from a research biomedical engineer to eventually leading the agency’s Material Measurement Laboratory (MML). </p> <p><a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="5cc1651e-b383-4706-8f6c-a68578220d6f" href="/web/20230703084351/https://www.nist.gov/people/laurie-e-locascio" title="Laurie E. 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Text on image reads: NIST Office of Weights and Measures, NIST SP 2200 Legal Metrology Publication Series." typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20230703084351/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/06/owm-announces-new-legal-metrology-publication-2022-nist-summary-us-legal"><span property="schema:name">OWM Announces New Legal Metrology Publication: 2022 NIST Summary of U.S. Legal Metrology Activities</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2023-06-30T12:00:00Z">June 30, 2023</time> </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div property="schema:text" class="text-with-summary">The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) is pleased to announce the release of the 2022 NIST Summary of U.S. Legal Metrology Activities (SP 2200-02). This</div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article role="article" about="/news-events/news/2023/06/nist-designed-photonic-chip-transforms-single-beam-light-multiple-beams" typeof="schema:Article" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20230703084351/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/06/nist-designed-photonic-chip-transforms-single-beam-light-multiple-beams" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/web/20230703084351im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/2023/06/30/photonic-chip.png?itok=WBUjNc2a" width="100" height="88" alt="photonic chip illustration" typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20230703084351/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/06/nist-designed-photonic-chip-transforms-single-beam-light-multiple-beams"><span property="schema:name">NIST-Designed Photonic Chip Transforms a Single Beam of Light Into Multiple Beams, Each With a Panoply of Different Properties</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2023-06-30T12:00:00Z">June 30, 2023</time> </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div property="schema:text" class="text-with-summary">Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a photonic circuit on a chip that transforms a single incoming beam of</div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article role="article" about="/news-events/news/2023/06/our-digital-future-legal-metrology-lessons-learned-international-conference" typeof="schema:Article" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20230703084351/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/06/our-digital-future-legal-metrology-lessons-learned-international-conference" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" 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Resources</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2023-06-30T12:00:00Z">June 30, 2023</time> </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div property="schema:text" class="text-with-summary">A few months ago, NIST OWM reached out to state weights and measures directors for their input on OWM’s “informal learning resources.” Through a series of</div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <footer> <div class="link-list"><a href="/web/20230703084351/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news-updates/org/5616">View All News and Updates</a></div> </footer> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--dynamic-content-list-ou paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="nist-block "> <h2 class="nist-block__title"> <div class="string">Taking Measure Blog</div> </h2> <div class="viewsreference"><div class="views-element-container"><div 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You should read it. No pressure.</div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article role="article" about="/blogs/taking-measure/my-science-project-collapsed-my-science-career-was-just-getting-started" class="nist-teaser"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20230703084351/https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/my-science-project-collapsed-my-science-career-was-just-getting-started" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/web/20230703084351im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/2023/05/24/christine_mcginn_working_in_lab_1_060723.jpg?itok=8C6Zr5jQ" width="100" height="67" alt="Christine McGinn wears safety glasses as she handles plastic bottles and other materials in the lab. 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