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George Washington University and the Arthur S. Flemming Commission have named Igor Linkov, senior science and technology manager at the Environmental Laboratory of the U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC), as one of 12 exceptional public servants for 2020. The award recipients, chosen from across a range of federal agencies, are recognized for their outstanding service in the fields of applied science and engineering, basic science, leadership and management, legal achievement and social science. Linkov was recognized in the leadership and management category for his work to support multiple agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic. "I am pleased and humbled to receive this recognition," Linkov said. "This is a credit to the ERDC's Risk and Decision Science Team's achievements. I am extremely grateful for all of my colleagues, who worked around the clock during the COVID-19 crisis and were able to apply risk and resilience analytics and decision science to address urgent societal needs. I have also benefited from the vision of ERDC and [Environmental Laboratory] leadership, who supported my team's research developing tools and methods that we were able to transition into practice in record time," he added. |