Our stories spotlight the work we’re doing for our customers and partners that is strengthening the U.S. scientific mission and global competitiveness. These features also demonstrate how ORAU’s expertise has specifically impacted our customers’ needs and the effect of our efforts on our local and regional communities.
Emergency Preparedness
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Anticipated consequences—Mental health implications and the benefit of true planning
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ORAU prepares communities for pandemic response
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VHA PIMS helps VA prepare for and respond to COVID-19 and plan for vaccine distribution
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Exercise Builder Nuclear™ app makes management of large-scale emergency exercises easier
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Working in danger zones: ORAU forensic DNA examiners help piece together clues that save military lives
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COVID-19 lessons learned focus on value of public health, complicated recovery
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Contact tracing is critical as nation’s COVID-19 recovery moves forward
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ORAU preparedness resources advance local readiness
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Community preparedness: Best practices for emergency and disaster response
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Aiding the VHA in response to local emergencies and national disasters through PIMS web-based application
STEM Workforce Development
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Where are they now? Former NASA Postdoctoral Program Participant Gioia Massa, Ph.D.
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Where are they now? Former NASA Postdoctoral Program participant Rika Anderson, Ph.D.
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Where are they now? Former NASA Postdoctoral Program Participant Hyunju Connor, Ph.D.
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ORAU Workforce Solutions uses technology to meet customer needs during pandemic
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The hunt for purple squirrels: Recruiter excels at finding the impossible
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Gender gaps in engineering: Are women’s workplace experiences a key factor
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Building on-ramps to a STEM-capable U.S. workforce
Research
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ORAU and MITRE Corporation partnership focuses on wastewater surveillance for tracking spread of COVID-19
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Research on boars from Fukushima region may unlock the key to faster radiation dose processing
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Can a machine accurately predict whether a social media user is gullible to “fake news?”
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Where are they now? Powe Award winner Laurent Bellaiche
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Powe awardee researches rocks that formed Earth’s continents billions of years ago
Worker Health
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ORAU experts contribute to first-ever Total Exposure Health book
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Filling in the gaps: ORAU develops a new theoretical model for nuclear security culture
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30,000 nuclear workers surveyed on safety cultures in their workplaces
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Capturing more than a half century of radiation data on one million workers
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Bridging the gap to Total Exposure Health
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Managing nationwide health screening program for former energy workers
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NIOSH Radiation Dose Reconstruction Program: Assessing radiation exposures for energy workers
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Importance of burn pit registries to understanding exposure/disease relationships
K-12 STEM Education
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Virtual summer programs prepare students for future scientific workforce
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STEM Camp teaches elementary school students to solve problems with ‘unplugged’ tools
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ORAU, ARC, and ORNL celebrate 30 years of STEM
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STEM Stories: Inviting scientists to inspire young minds with stories about why they chose careers in science
Health Communication
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‘Hidden’ impacts: diseases of despair, health disparities and COVID-19
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Combating misinformation in an era of COVID-19: Insights, advice from an ORAU social scientist
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COVID-19 prevention measures may have long-term implications for people with opioid use disorders
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Could immersive virtual reality provide a path to increased flu vaccination rates?
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Is social media helping or hindering vaccination rates?
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Developing triage tools to help mitigate medical surge during an influenza pandemic
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Training local organizations to more effectively use social media to communicate about opioid misuse and abuse
