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| Alan S. Waterman Laboratory | |
|---|---|
| Name | Alan S. Waterman Laboratory |
| Established | 2014 |
| Location | Bethesda, Maryland |
| Type | Research laboratory |
| Parent | National Science Foundation |
Alan S. Waterman Laboratory is a United States federal research facility located on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland, built to house programs administered by the National Science Foundation. The Laboratory commemorates Alan Tower Waterman and serves as a focal point for federal science infrastructure engaging with agencies such as the Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense. The facility supports interdisciplinary projects involving institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley.
The Laboratory originated from a capital project authorized under initiatives promoted by Barack Obama administration science advisers and overseen by officials from the United States Congress and the Office of Management and Budget. Groundbreaking followed design approval from the General Services Administration and consultation with the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts. Construction involved contractors with past work for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects and drew on practices from programs led by John Holdren, France A. Córdova, and Subra Suresh. The dedication ceremony featured representatives from the National Science Board, the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, and the Association of American Universities.
Architectural design was produced through a competition judged by members affiliated with the American Institute of Architects and firms that have worked for Smithsonian Institution projects and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum commissions. The building incorporates laboratories, offices, and collaborative spaces influenced by precedents at the Salk Institute, the Broad Institute, and the Linus Pauling Building typologies. Facilities include containment suites comparable to those at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, machine shops echoing those at Argonne National Laboratory, and clean rooms used by teams from Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The infrastructure supports high-performance computing clusters similar to systems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and cloud collaborations with Amazon Web Services for science.
The Laboratory houses programs aligned with NSF directorates and interfaces with programs such as the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences, and the NSF Directorate for Engineering. Its mission parallels strategic priorities articulated by reports from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and initiatives championed by agencies including the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Research themes intersect with work undertaken at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, spanning instrumentation development, data science, and interdisciplinary discovery led by investigators from Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, and Johns Hopkins University.
Projects hosted have included instrument development projects analogous to those at the Large Hadron Collider collaborations, sensor programs akin to those of the NOAA Hurricane Testbed, and computational campaigns resembling efforts at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Experimental efforts have supported field programs connected to Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory expeditions and laboratory initiatives in materials science comparable to work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Laboratory has enabled prototype efforts for technologies endorsed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and field tests coordinated with the United States Geological Survey.
Partnerships extend to academic partners such as University of Michigan, Duke University, Cornell University, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Washington, and to federal organizations including the United States Geological Survey, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency. International collaborations involve researchers connected to CERN, the European Space Agency, Max Planck Society, Riken, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences through programs managed by consortia like the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Simons Foundation. Industry relationships include engagements with corporations such as IBM, Intel, Google, Microsoft, and Boeing.
Administrative oversight is provided by the National Science Foundation headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, with governance informed by the National Science Board and federal procurement rules administered by the General Services Administration and audited under guidance from the Government Accountability Office. Funding streams derive from Congressional appropriations authorized through committees such as the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and from cooperative agreements with agencies including the Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Institutes of Health. Grant programs follow practices established by the National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and peer-review processes modeled on those used by the National Institutes of Health.
Outreach programming has connected the Laboratory to museums and educational institutions like the Smithsonian Institution, the National Air and Space Museum, the Exploratorium, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Baltimore Museum of Industry. Educational partnerships have included summer internships patterned on REU programs, fellowships similar to the Fulbright Program in scope, and workshops coordinated with organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Council on Undergraduate Research, and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. Public lectures have featured speakers from Nobel Prize laureates, members of the National Academy of Sciences, and administrators from the National Science Foundation.
Category:Research laboratories in the United States Category:National Science Foundation