Sammies
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Dr. Susan Solomon is with NOAA and works on global warming issues.
July 27, 2010 -
Through aggressive enforcement actions, incentives and multi-faceted education campaigns, FDA stopping the distribution of hundreds of unapproved prescription drugs. Deborah Autor is the fed behind the effort.
July 26, 2010 -
GAO\'s Greg Kutz led a wide ranging investigation that prompted congressional and federal action to protect vulnerable children in residential programs and schools from neglect and physical abuse by their teachers and caregivers. We talk with the Sammie nominee about his work.
July 19, 2010 -
We continue our Sammies Tracker series, speaking to finalists in this year\'s Service to America Medals from the Partnership for Public Service
July 12, 2010 -
Since 1981 an estimated 25 million people have died of AIDS worldwide.
July 06, 2010 -
If you are a sticker for time then your in luck.
June 29, 2010 -
Under enormous pressure, with little time to spare and no playbook to follow, the Treasury Department\'s newly created Office of Financial Stability (OFS) had to recruit highly qualified staff to administer TARP, build an operation from scratch, negotiate complex agreements to provide hundreds of billions of dollars, and ensure that their decisions were done according to the strict letter of the law and with strong fiscal controls. Timothy Massad, chief counsel, explains how they pulled that off.
June 28, 2010 -
Peter Wilhelm has developed and deployed 95 satellites, pioneering significant advances from lunar exploration to GPS to global weather forecasting. We talk with the Director of the Naval Center for Space Technology about his work.
June 07, 2010 -
If you have traveled out West, you have an idea of the vastness of parts of this country. Two Sammies nominees tell us how they\'ve managed to close the gap -- literally.
June 02, 2010 -
One NASA scientist is literally helping people see.
May 26, 2010 -
NTSB\'s Robert Benzon says \"I\'m trying to put myself out of business,\" as an accident investigator.
May 24, 2010 -
His conviction that the Treasury\'s debt office was on the verge of disaster much like 2005 when the Federal Emergency Management Agency was ill-equipped to handle Hurricane Katrina led him to push for a complete overhaul of the risk management tools used to issue the national debt. Meet Karthik Ramanathan: SAMMIE finalist.
May 17, 2010 -
The Service to America Medals (Sammies) awards program pays tribute to America\'s dedicated federal workforce, highlighting those who have made significant contributions to our country. Max Stier, President of the Partnership for Public Service, gives us a preview of today\'s announcement
May 05, 2010 -
What does it take to become the Federal Employee of the Year? To answer that question, we turn to the person who just received that honor: Dr. Janet Kemp. Her Veteran Suicide Prevention Hotline is…
September 24, 2009 -
Dr. Ian Spielman pioneered a new area of research in government that’s helping scientists understand crucial, but currently intractable, mysteries of physics — like an explanation of something called high-temperature superconductivity.Spielman is a Physicist at…
August 19, 2009