ORAU is an independent third party with decades of experience managing all phases of scientific peer and merit reviews. While managing a fully integrated peer review and grants management system, known as PeerNet, our peer review team is always looking for innovative solutions to improve on current processes and capabilities.
This blog explains how ORAU has been involved with educating the public about nuclear energy for decades (starting with “This Atomic World”) and how we’re involved in where the industry is headed in the future.
Alberto Vazquez-Salazar, Ph.D., is a NASA postdoctoral fellow working at UCLA in the lab of Professor Irene Chen. He studies how life may have started on Earth by focusing on a molecule called RNA, or ribonucleic acid, which is a critical molecule that exists in all living things. His work is a part of astrobiology that explores how life began on Earth and how we might find signs of life elsewhere in the universe. In this episode of Further Together, Vazquez-Salazar talks to host Michael Holtz about how science has always seemed to be part of his life. Growing up in Mexico City, his mom, a botanist, kept books and plant specimens everywhere. “Science was just part of everyday life,” he says. “It was as normal as finding cereal in the pantry.” Listen to learn more about Vazquez-Salazar’s journey to NASA. To learn more about the NASA Postdoctoral Program and when applications open, visit https://npp.orau.org/index.html.
