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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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Mary Gibert is GSA's federal transition coordinator and associate administrator for the Office of Civil Rights.
It took a lot of collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and the government to get COVID-19 vaccines developed and proven safe.
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.
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.
The Census Bureau's Paul Friday is a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals for his work helping the agency turn handwritten notes or forms into machine readable data.
Census Bureau computer scientist works to keep crucial functions away from outsourcing.
Rumor mongering on the internet is a constant threat, but last year rumors threatened to muck up the 2020 decennial census count. This Sammies finalist built partnerships to stop that from happening.
Foster children eventually grow up. Some 20,000 reach 18 years of age each year and then they're on their own. This HUD initiative can help.
Principal Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals Program, Dr. Anne Schuchat, spoke with Federal Drive with Tom Temin about her career.