Jobs and internships for top scientific and technical talent and other support personnel
Opportunities provided through ORAU ensure you are STEM-career ready! Our clients are also looking for business, communications, administrative and other personnel to provide strong support to their scientific and technical missions.
Providing health screenings designed to identify certain occupational diseases such as respiratory illnesses or cancer
Our proven credentials in IT integration have given us the tools and expertise necessary to serve as the complex-wide integrator of occupational health data for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Through the National Supplemental Screening Program—managed by ORAU since 2005—DOE provides exposure-based, medical screenings to former energy workers.
Helping communities have plans in place to provide medicines and supplies during emergencies
ORAU has decades of experience preparing communities and partners to receive and provide life-saving medicines and supplies in an emergency. Our experts work with federal, state, local and territorial agencies to help improve their medical countermeasure readiness planning and operations.
Slowing, reversing the decline in U.S. life expectancy
Researchers at ORAU are working extensively with government agencies, such as CDC, to develop communication strategies with the hope of reducing the risk of both substance abuse deaths and cancer.
Radiological & chemical characterization support environmental cleanup
ORAU independently develops and implements radiological and chemical characterization survey plans for state and government agencies, as well as private sector organizations. The site characterization assessment provided by ORAU’s survey team of health physicists is the first step in preparing a robust and accurate decontamination and decommissioning process for your site and employs our proven procedures and methods.
Total Exposure Health is the evaluation of an individual’s total health and wellbeing so that person can be more positively impacted through integrated health protection and promotion initiatives. The National Supplemental Screening Program (NSSP) provides exposure-based medical exams, tests and procedures to identify medical conditions of both occupational and non-occupational origin.
Labor trends report spotlights higher education health physics enrollments and degrees
As a leader in assessing the health of our scientific workforce, ORAU education specialists publish reports that analyze labor trends, assess classroom technologies and examine other characteristics unique to our nation’s global competitiveness. One of our most significant labor trends analyses has been tracking enrollments and degrees awarded in health physics for DOE and other federal agencies for more than 50 years.
Is social media helping or hindering vaccination rates?
That’s the question ORAU researchers asking. Members of ORAU’s Health Communications and Marketing Team are collaborating with the University of Georgia to analyze social media conversations across three major vaccine types—childhood immunizations, HPV, and seasonal influenza—to better inform communication strategies aimed at decreasing hesitancy and increasing vaccination rates. The research is being conducted through an ORAU-Directed Research and Development program grant. Knoxville News Sentinel reporter Kristi Nelson talked to the research team about their work for this story.
Applications are open for the 2019 ARC/ORNL Summer STEM Institute!
The ARC/ORNL Summer STEM Program is a residential, hands-on learning experience for Appalachia's high school and middle school students, as well as high school teachers in STEM-related fields. All participants work with award-winning scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
ORAU provides innovative scientific and technical solutions to advance science education and workforce development and protect health and the environment. We connect the right people and resources to get things done, and we put the full power of our organization behind every project—both large and small.
Radiation safety & health physics training
ORAU also offers some of the best radiation safety and health physics training available in the United States at our Oak Ridge, Tenn., facility. Whether you are just starting your career in the health physics field and want to learn in a hands-on, classroom environment, or are a seasoned professional who needs a refresher or way to develop new skills, Professional Training Programs has a course for you! Browse our course listing:
Applied Health Physics
The use of radiation in industry, medicine, and education has created a need for persons trained in the principles of radiation safety and health physics. To meet this need, ORAU conducts a five-week training course—Applied Health Physics. The American Academy of Health Physics grants 40 Continuing Education Credits for completion of this course.
This five-day, laboratory-oriented course introduces participants to the basic theories and mechanics of air sampling for radionuclides. Approximately 40% of the time is spent collecting and analyzing air samples; the remaining time is devoted to lectures.
This five-day, laboratory-oriented course introduces participants to the basic theories and mechanics of environmental monitoring for radioactivity. Approximately 50% of the time is spent collecting and analyzing samples; the remaining time is devoted to lectures.
This five-day, laboratory-oriented course covers the basics of radionuclide identification and quantification by gamma spectroscopy. Approximately 50% of the time will be spent in the laboratory.
This five-day course introduces participants to the use of statistics in operational health physics. The course is divided between lectures and practical laboratory activities designed to reinforce important principles. Core concepts such as probability distributions, descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing are included to support more detailed discussions on uncertainty propagation and statistical tests.
This five-day lecture/laboratory course is an introduction to the basic science behind radiation safety and to common applications of radiation safety principles. Lectures include a description of common radiation sources, interactions of radiation with matter, biological effects, detection and measurement. Laboratory exercises emphasize radiation detection and measurement techniques using both fixed and portable instrumentation.
This five-day lecture/laboratory course introduces course participants to current issues and technologies in the medical applications of radiation. The issues and technologies are discussed in the context of improving and developing an institution’s radiation safety program.
This four-day training course focuses on the methodology and practical application of the MARSAME standard. This standard supplements the MARSSIM manual that has become the basis for real property final status surveys. The objective of the course is to provide attendees with a solid understanding of the MARSAME standard, practice through exercise and provide practical information related to its implementation.
This five-day course emphasizes the decision-making processes involved in the design and implementation of a MARSSIM-based decommissioning survey. Topics include an overview of radiological survey types, the data quality objectives process, selection and application of DCGLs, background reference area selection, survey instrument detection sensitivity, area classification, statistical design of surveys, measurement uncertainty and performing statistical tests.
This five-day course is designed to provide course participants with a thorough understanding of current methods for determining radiation doses resulting from intakes of radioactive materials by workers. The course covers the basic concepts and principles of internal dose assessments, and describes the ICRP internal dosimetry systems and models currently in use in the United States and internationally.
This five-day lecture/laboratory course introduces course participants to relevant issues that influence the effectiveness of a radiation safety program. The course emphasizes a variety of administrative and technical issues that a radiation safety officer has to address. An interactive format offers the opportunity for instructor/group discussions to facilitate the learning process.
Site Characterization in Support of Decommissioning
This five-day course emphasizes site evaluation, data planning, survey implementation and tools, data interpretation, and decision-making processes involved in the historical site assessment, scoping survey and characterization survey phases of decommissioning. Topics include: site assessment, surveys for radiological and chemical contaminants, data quality objectives and assessments, safety evaluations, planning and budgeting.
March 7: Jeffrey Miller, Ph.D., ORAU Senior Scientist and Head of ORAU’s Center for Safety Studies presents: “I Asked 30,000 People in the Nuclear Industry About Safety Culture. This is What I Learned.” Organizations in the nuclear industry place a high value on maintaining the safety of the workforce and community. Some do a better job of developing and sustaining a positive safety culture that permeates the organization from top to bottom. How did they develop that? Have they cracked a secret code? Was it programmed into their corporate DNA? Was it the leader of the organization? We spent six years studying organizations in the Department of Energy enterprise and in the nuclear power industry to better understand their safety culture.
74th Annual Meeting of the Council of Sponsoring Institutions
Theme: Ensuring A Robust U.S. Energy Future
March 4-6, 2019
Pollard Technology Conference Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Come talk to us about public health and healthcare preparedness capabilities
Come talk to us about public health and healthcare preparednes at the ORAU booth at the 2019 NACCHO Preparedness Summit March 26-29, 2019 in St. Louis.
The Preparedness Summit is the first and longest running national conference on public health preparedness. The Summit convenes a wide array of partners; presenting new research findings, sharing tools and resources and providing a variety of opportunities for attendees to learn how to implement model practices that enhance the nation’s capabilities to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters and other emergencies.
Come see us at the Tennessee Library Association Annual Conference
The TLA Annual Conference will be held April 24-26, 2019, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
April 24, 2019 - Half-day workshop: “Walking Together Through Open Doors: Successful Mentoring” featuring speaker Dr. Diane Kelly, professor and director, University of Tennessee School of Information Science. The workshop will also include a one-hour panel discussion and a one-hour mentoring plan exercise.
April 26, 2019, 9 a.m. - One-hour presentation: “Resilience in Leadership: Balancing your Heart and Mind.” Feeling burned out? Are you beginning to have a hard time adapting to the speed of change? How about the constant task changing and multitasking that goes on in our library jobs and personal lives? It’s time to recharge! Join the TLA Leadership Roundtable to learn how to get rid of the anxiety, learn to disconnect appropriately, and take time for you and focus on things that really matter.
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ORAU also offers some of the best radiation safety and health physics training available in the United States at our Oak Ridge, Tenn., facility. Whether you are just starting your career in the health physics field and want to learn in a hands-on, classroom environment, or are a seasoned professional who needs a refresher or way to develop new skills, Professional Training Programs has a course for you! Browse our course listing:
