2008 Finalist Carol D. Shull Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Carol D. Shull Led the expansion of the National Register of Historic Places to include well over a million properties, recognizing and helping to preserve sites of cultural significance.
2008 Finalist Cynthia Bascetta Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Cynthia Bascetta Providing authoritative advice and analysis to Congress and the general public to improve the quality of health care in America.
2008 Winner Stephen O. Andersen Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Stephen O. Andersen Played a key role in implementing the landmark Montreal Protocol which has put us on a path to restoring the ozone layer by phasing out 95 percent of the world’s ozone-depleting substances and is leading current federal efforts to combat climate change.
2008 Winner Richard Greene Federal Employee of the Year Richard Greene Designed and launched the President’s Malaria Initiative, which has provided potentially life-saving services to more than 25 million vulnerable people.
2008 Winner Eddie Bernard Safety, Security and International Affairs Eddie Bernard Created a tsunami detection system that has dramatically increased warning times and decreased the risk of catastrophic loss of life.
2008 Finalist Michael Butler Safety, Security and International Affairs Michael Butler Created a new smart card credentialing system that is improving the security of federal properties and computer networks, in addition to saving taxpayer dollars.
2008 Finalist Carole A. Davis Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Carole A. Davis Led the development of federal dietary guidelines and the establishment of the popular MyPyramid.gov website.
2008 Finalist Victor M. Manjarrez, Jr and the Operation Lifeguard Team Safety, Security and International Affairs Victor M. Manjarrez, Jr and the Operation Lifeguard Team Established an unprecedented alliance between U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials to reduce the number of illegal border crossings.
2008 Winner Alain D. Carballeyra Emerging Leaders Alain D. Carballeyra Introducing cutting edge 3-D technology to improve medical care and rehabilitation, and helping restore quality of life for soldiers that have suffered traumatic battle injuries.
2008 Winner Rajiv Jain Citizen Services Rajiv Jain Developed and led an initiative that reduced a type of life-threatening, hospital-acquired infections by 60 percent and has been replicated at all 153 VA hospitals and other hospitals across America and parts of the world.
2009 Winner Janet Kemp Federal Employee of the Year Janet Kemp Established a national suicide prevention hotline for veterans, which has resulted in more than 5,000 immediate rescues.
2008 Finalist Greg Neudecker Science, Technology and Environment Greg Neudecker Built a coalition of government officials, local landowners and conservation groups to develop and execute a plan to restore Montana’s Blackfoot River watershed, the setting of the 1992 film A River Runs Through It.
2008 Finalist Joshua R. Fairley and the Team Emerging Leaders Joshua R. Fairley and the Team Led the development of new technology to improve the accuracy of improvised explosive device (IED) detection by 75 percent.
2009 Winner Thomas Alexander Waldmann Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Thomas Alexander Waldmann Over the course of a 52-year career, made cutting-edge discoveries that have led to effective treatments for previously fatal forms of T-cell leukemia, Hodgkin’s lymphoma and multiple sclerosis.
2008 Finalist Orlando Illi and the MC4 Team Safety, Security and International Affairs Orlando Illi and the MC4 Team Developed systems that allow medical units to digitally capture and access service members’ medical records on the battlefield.
2008 Finalist Renate Reimschuessel Safety, Security and International Affairs Renate Reimschuessel Made the scientific breakthrough to identify the cause of the largest pet food recall in history and is currently conducting critical research to guarantee the safety of imported foods.
2008 Finalist David J. Lipman Citizen Services David J. Lipman Led the development of the groundbreaking PubMed Central database which enhances biomedical research in a way that is accelerating scientific discovery and increasing public knowledge.
2008 Finalist Joshua Pomeroy Emerging Leaders Joshua Pomeroy Developed breakthrough technology that enhances our ability to read microchips, which will lead to further miniaturization in data storage.
2008 Finalist Patricia Frounfelker Emerging Leaders Patricia Frounfelker Discovered hazards associated with reactive armor that have prompted safety improvements for U.S. soldiers.
2009 Finalist Audrey Nelson Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Audrey Nelson Explored ways to help nurses and medical practitioners avoid back injuries, which resulted in a $200 million program across the VA to use mechanical lifts and transfer devices when moving patients.
2008 Finalist Alexander E. MacDonald Science, Technology and Environment Alexander E. MacDonald Invented Science on a Sphere®, a teaching tool that displays environmental data on a globe-like screen and makes Earth-system science more exciting and accessible.
2008 Finalist Judah Levine Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Judah Levine Served three decades as “the nation’s timekeeper,” creating a system for synchronizing time for our financial markets and computer networks, which is accessed more than 2.5 billion times a day.
2008 Finalist Scott Hutchison, Steven Zerebeck and the Team Safety, Security and International Affairs Scott Hutchison, Steven Zerebeck and the Team Identified more than $2 billion in aberrant Medicare claims and created a model for reducing fraud in the program.
