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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/20230210092903/https://www.nist.gov/people/laurie-e-locascio" title="Laurie E. 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