Byline: Elizabeth Benham, Isabel Baucom Chavez, and Maritoni Litorja
The Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) welcomes four 2023 NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program research fellows to our Gaithersburg, Maryland campus: Dinelka Jagoda, Benjamin Tran, Bryan Rezende and TJ White, Jr. Their 11-week summer internship appointments are scheduled from May to August 2023, where they’ll gain experience in legal metrology, calibration laboratory operations, proficiency testing, the metric system (International System of Units, SI), and federal public service. OWM 2023 SURF research projects were announced in the December 2022 newsletter.
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Dinelka Jagoda
Dinelka Jagoda is a Computer Science (CS) major entering her sophomore year at the University of Maryland, College Park. With her CS major, Dinelka is also pursuing an upper-level concentration in art, specifically digital design. In her spare time, Dinelka enjoys practicing various art forms, her favorites are digital art, journaling, painting, and creative writing. In the future, she is eager to find a career path combining her computer science background with her passion for art.
Dinelka is returning to OWM, having previously worked as a spring 2022 NIST OWM Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) intern. This summer, Dinelka is working full-time on the NIST Gaithersburg campus within the OWM Metric Program, with research advisor Elizabeth Benham to develop and ..
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