Visitors Center, Video Highlight ECBC’s Century of Innovation
About 150 employees and guests gathered for the grand opening of the ECBC Visitors Center. Center Director Joseph Corriveau, Ph.D., officiated a ribbon-cutting ceremony in front of the newly renovated facility immediately after the premiere showing of the video, “ECBC: A Century of Solutions.” The video highlights ECBC’s accomplishments through…
ECBC Employees Recognized as Modern-Day Technology Leaders
Each honoree received a Certificate of Recognition during the Modern-Day Technology Leaders Luncheon, Feb. 10 in Washington, D.C. The luncheon was held as part of the 31st annual BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness Conference, which brought professionals and students from a wide variety of STEM-related fields together for education and career…
ECBC Participates in DHS-led Joint Exercise
The joint exercise was conducted with the Integrated Consortium of Laboratory Networks, chaired by the Department of Homeland Security, which coordinates federally sponsored analytical laboratory services for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear incidents. It is made up of a total of nine federal agencies including the Department of Defense, Department…
ECBC Senior Scientist Selected for Presidential Rank Award
Fountain, a Senior Executive Service-level scientific and professional executive, is among 102 Meritorious Rank recipients from across the entire federal government. In the spring he will attend a ceremony for the winners at the State Department where the Secretary of the Army will present the award. The Presidential Rank Awards…
Collaboration and Coffee Kicks off ECBC’s 100th Anniversary
“This is the initial event of the 100th anniversary and I can’t think of any better way to start it than with this competition,” said Peter Emanuel, Ph.D., chief scientist at ECBC and founder of Coffee With Colleagues. “We’ve gone from being an arsenal to a research and development center…
Renowned Researcher Anthony Atala Visits ECBC
A surgeon and a scientist, Atala has gained international prominence for his research in using healthy human cells to regenerate diseased or damaged tissue and organs, and is a featured speaker at TED Conferences. He came to Edgewood to meet with the team from ECBC that is working with him…
ECBC’s Augmented Reality Demo a Real Hit at the U.S. Senate
Senators John Thune (SD) and Jeff Moran (KS) both wore the state-of-the-art head mounted display the ECBC team developed and brought with them. The senators saw a virtual image and detailed assembly instructions integrated onto a physical model of a biodetector and its components as over 35 staffers looked on….
ECBC Leaders Receive Senior Service Pins
ECBC Director Joseph Corriveau, Ph.D., officiated the event, and Col. Thomas Saltysiak, served as Master of Ceremonies. Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, gave remarks and administered the Oath of Office to each honoree. The families of both Moore and Emanuel…
Bringing Chemical and Biological Detection into the Digital Age
Testing in the Desert Night It is mid-August and the team is at Dugway Proving Ground’s West Desert Test Center in Utah. A quarter moon has set and the Milky Way dazzles overhead as teams from ECBC, private industry, and international observers from several NATO countries participate in an annual…
ECBC Earns ‘A’ Rating for Biomedical Proficiency
The OPCW is an independent and multinational organization, which was established to implement the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) that bans the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. In 2013, the OPCW earned the Nobel Peace Prize for overseeing the removal of Syria’s chemical warfare agent stockpile. As a part…