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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Working in danger zones: ORAU forensic DNA examiners help piece together clues that save military lives
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Anticipated consequences—Mental health implications and the benefit of true planning
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COVID-19 lessons learned and the future of response and recovery
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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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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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ORAU manages platform for Alfred Street Baptist Church Foundation’s first-ever virtual HBCU Festival
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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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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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The hunt for purple squirrels: Recruiter excels at finding the impossible
Research
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Research in progress: Finding the links between COVID-19 health risk disparities and air pollutant exposures
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ORAU Annual Meeting on artificial intelligence, machine learning
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ORAU and MITRE Corporation partnership focuses on wastewater surveillance for tracking spread of COVID-19
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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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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
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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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Bridging the gap to Total Exposure Health
K-12 STEM Education
Health Communication
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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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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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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
