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Accelerating solutions to address U.S. STEM workforce gaps

The ORAU STEM Accelerator's vision is to be the nation’s leading catalyst for advancing STEM education. Through transformative and innovative approaches, our goal is to strengthen national economy, global economic and technological leadership, national security, and our quality of life through STEM.

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Oak Ridge Associated Universities

For more than 75 years, we have helped our customers advance their mission by providing science, health, and workforce solutions. Through our specialized teams of experts and a consortium of more than 150 universities, we connect the right people and resources to help our customers solve our nation’s most challenging issues.

ORAU Highlights

Podcast

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The state of research at ORAU, and a look ahead to our 2025 annual meeting

Ken Tobin, chief research officer, and Cathy Fore, senior director of university partnerships, sit down with hosts Michael Holtz and Abbey Becker to discuss the state of research at ORAU. As an institution, ORAU has its hands in more research than ever before, involving our own subject matter experts, as well as that of our government agency partners and our university consortium members. This episode includes discussion of recent research successes and the matchmaking that Fore does to increase the value proposition for consortium members. We discuss ORAU's current research priorities and the topics of recently awarded ORAU-Directed Research and Development projects. We also do a quick wrap up of the 2024 annual meeting, which focused on STEM education and look ahead to the 2025 meeting and its focus on advanced manufacturing.

Impact Areas

Going Further. Together.

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.