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Sammies
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It's the job of Ajay Bhatt, associate legal adviser to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to track down scores of human rights violators who've entered the country.
June 01, 2016 -
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The Partnership for Public Service recently announced the finalists for the 2016 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals.
May 30, 2016 -
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The Partnership for Public Service has announced 32 federal employees as finalists for this year's Service to America Medal awards as part of Public Service Recognition Week.
May 04, 2016 -
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Each year the Partnership for Public Services honors the best in career civil service. The Service to America Medals, or Sammies, provide a way for agency leadership to recognize people who might be working in obscurity but are nevertheless having a big impact. You've still got a week to nominate someone. And, as Jim Seymour, director of programs and events at the Partnership tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, 2016 is a red-letter year.
January 08, 2016 -
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Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, federal leaders and family members celebrated the achievements of 10 federal employees at the 2015 Sammies awards dinner organized by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service.
October 08, 2015 -
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You believe you have the answer to a problem, but no one else believes you do. Many federal employees have been there over the years. Dr. Steven Rosenberg turned his belief into life-saving therapy that people call "a miracle" and last night he turned his belief into the Federal Employee of the Year Award at the Service to America Medals award ceremony. Rosenberg, chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, talked to In Depth with Francis Rose.
October 08, 2015 -
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The Partnership for Public Service announced this year’s list of winners for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals.
October 07, 2015 -
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It's not just tornadoes and floods that require a disaster relief and recovery plan. Seismologist, Lucy Jones, is science advisor for Risk Reduction at the US Geological Survey. She's turned her groundbreaking research on earthquakes into public action that will save lives and property. For her work, she's been named a finalist for this this year's Service to America medals. She tells the Federal Drive with Tom Temin more about her work and the Shake Out scenario she developed.
October 06, 2015 -
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Robert Bunge, Michael Gerber and the Wireless Alerts Team developed the Wireless Emergency Alerts system, which has sent our over 15,000 warnings since it was implemented in 2012.
September 04, 2015 -
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A real revolution is what Nobel Prize Laureate and fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology William Phillips calls the field of atomtronics. He applauded the work of NIST physicist Gretchen Campbell in that field. Campbell is a Service to America Medal finalist in the Call to Service category. She says the field of atomtronics is still sort of theoretical.
September 04, 2015 -
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Susan Kelly introduced sweeping changes to the Defense Department's Transition Assistance Program, improving the transition of service members to civilian life.
September 02, 2015 -
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The Partnership for Public Service recently named Constantine P. "Gus" Sarkos, head of the Federal Aviation Administration's Fire Safety Branch, a finalist for a Service to America Medal.
September 01, 2015 -
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When it comes to fire safety aboard commercial aircraft, Constantine "Gus" Sarkos is the nation’s expert. As head of the FAA's Fire Safety Branch, Sarkos and his team have played a pivotal role improving cabin and cargo safety, leading to a dozen significant changes to U.S. and foreign aircraft during the past three decades. For his work, he's been named one of the 33 finalists for this year's Service to America Medals. He tells Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp more about that work and the likelihood of an aircraft catching fire nowadays.
September 01, 2015 -
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The Environmental Protection Agency's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule is aimed at reducing power plant emissions and protecting those downwind of the facilities from the nitrogen and sulfur fumes they generate. Stephanie Hogan is the acting team leader for interstate transport of air pollution in the EPA's Office of General Counsel, and one of the people responsible for enforcing that rule. For her work, she was named one of the 33 finalists for this year's Service to America Medals. She joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain more about her efforts, and the process for actually policing air pollution.
August 25, 2015
