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Dr. Reem Ghandour has done some significant research into compiling that data, research that helped officials at all levels of government develop policy.
September 29, 2021 -
The electromagnetic spectrum that our phones, radios and TVs rely on is a scare commodity and figuring out how to allocate it in the most sensible way has been a challenge for the past century.
September 22, 2021 -
USDA plays a little-recognized role in managing the nation’s dams and Sherry Hunt is a supervisory research engineer who’s led the Agricultural Research Service work on this topic.
September 15, 2021 -
The Air Force is hard at work on a project to replace its crucial weather satellites. Shepherding this project is a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program, Chong Le.
September 02, 2021 -
In 2017, Congress created a new system for veterans to appeal their disability claims. VBA's Mary Frances Matthews was put in charge of speeding those claims along, and by all accounts, she was wildly successful.
August 26, 2021 -
Federal scientists invent a possible new way to disinfect surfaces, without the harmful side effectsBut what if you could create a chemical that killed bacteria, but neutralized itself into harmless natural molecules after it did its job? USDA is trying to do just that.
August 19, 2021 -
Callie Higgins, a finalist of this year's Service to America Medals program, talked about how she discovered ways to detect and fix flaws produced by additive manufacturing.
August 11, 2021 -
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it easy to forget that pandemics happen a lot more often than every 100 years. A case in point is the terrifying Ebola outbreak in 2014.
August 04, 2021 -
Everyone wants to save the whales, but Jay Barlow at the National Marine Fisheries Service has actually done it. For his work, he is a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals.
July 28, 2021 -
How can the Department of Homeland Security possibly vet 40,000 people coming to the United States every day to spot the possible security threats?
July 21, 2021 -
One of the difficulties of controlling illegal opioids is that it comes mixed in with other substances. Sometimes detecting it can take hours of chemical analysis.
July 14, 2021 -
Mary Gibert is GSA's federal transition coordinator and associate administrator for the Office of Civil Rights.
July 07, 2021 -
It took a lot of collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and the government to get COVID-19 vaccines developed and proven safe.
June 30, 2021 -
When the pandemic shut down worldwide travel, some 100,000 Americans were stranded in nations across the globe. Then the State Department's best stepped in.
June 23, 2021 -
Black, Latino, Native American and other minorities had higher rates of COVID-19 - contracting it and and being hospitalized - than the national average. Last summer, Dr. Gary Gibbons decided to do something about it.
June 16, 2021