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.
Research
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ORAU and MITRE Corporation partnership focuses on wastewater surveillance for tracking spread of COVID-19
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ORAU Annual Meeting on artificial intelligence, machine learning
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Research in progress: Developing computer simulations to improve disaster planning in rural communities
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Research in progress: Finding the links between COVID-19 health risk disparities and air pollutant exposures
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Research in progress: How the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified barriers to career development for women in science
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Powe awardee researches rocks that formed Earth’s continents billions of years ago
Emergency Preparedness
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Aiding the VHA in response to local emergencies and national disasters through PIMS web-based application
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Working in danger zones: ORAU forensic DNA examiners help piece together clues that save military lives
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VHA PIMS helps VA prepare for and respond to COVID-19 and plan for vaccine distribution
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ORAU preparedness resources advance local readiness
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Exercise Builder Nuclear™ app makes management of large-scale emergency exercises easier
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COVID-19 lessons learned and the future of response and recovery
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Contact tracing is critical as nation’s COVID-19 recovery moves forward
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Community preparedness: Best practices for emergency and disaster response
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Anticipated consequences—Mental health implications and the benefit of true planning
Worker Health
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30,000 nuclear workers surveyed on safety cultures in their workplaces
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NIOSH Radiation Dose Reconstruction Program: Assessing radiation exposures for energy workers
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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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Importance of burn pit registries to understanding exposure/disease relationships
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Bridging the gap to Total Exposure Health
K-12 STEM Education
STEM Workforce Development
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ORAU Workforce Solutions uses technology to meet customer needs during pandemic
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Workplace resiliency: ORAU experts help customers transition to a remote workforce
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ORAU manages platform for Alfred Street Baptist Church Foundation’s first-ever virtual HBCU Festival
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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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Where are they now? Former NASA Postdoctoral Program Participant Gioia Massa, Ph.D.
Health Communication
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Drug-related overdose deaths: The epidemic within the pandemic
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Training local organizations to more effectively use social media to communicate about opioid misuse and abuse
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Taking the pulse of health communication and other topics using social listening
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What can be done to reverse the decline in U.S. life expectancy?
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Is social media helping or hindering vaccination rates?
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Could immersive virtual reality provide a path to increased flu vaccination rates?
