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Junior faculty grant program advances next-generation science and technology

The Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards are competitive research grants that provide seed money for junior faculty members. Since the program’s inception, ORAU has awarded 910 grants totaling more than $4.55 million. Including the matching funds from member institutions, ORAU has facilitated grants worth more than $9 million.

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A faculty researcher conducts laboratory experiment resulting from an ORAU grant program

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Destination Healthy Aging: An ORAU Innovation Partnership Program story

As Baby Boomers continue to age -- and let's be real Generation X isn't far behind -- healthy aging and how to care for this population will be critical. Elaine Jurkowski, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Southern Illinois Carbondale, received an ORAU Innovation Partnership Programs grant to host a day-long event called Destination Healthy Aging. The continuing education event for health care workers addressed caregiving, addressed the caregiver, addressed our workforce, talked about life after caregiving, talked about building communities that would be inclusive and age friendly for caregiving. We also addressed person-centered care and caregiving in place. That is, people remain in their own home and we figure out ways to strengthen the caregivers, so that they can do that job in helping that loved one stay in their home for as long as possible and even, hopefully, till they transition from this life. In this episode of Further Together, host Michael Holtz talks to Jurkowski and student GeVonna Fassett about the Destination Healthy Aging event, including how they decided to launch a program and the topic and what the impact was.

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ORAU is impacting national priorities in science, health, and education. Our research enterprise and the more than 150 major Ph.D.-granting institutions that comprise our university consortium help keep ORAU and the nation on the leading edge of science and technology. Likewise, the scientific and technical solutions we provide to our customers have impacted our nation and the world.