ORAU, in partnership with several leading nuclear industry organizations, has launched a strategic initiative to address the workforce challenges and education gaps faced by the nuclear energy industry.
Free teacher professional development courses
ORAU will offer a variety of free professional development courses throughout the month of June to equip STEM educators with valuable new skills and experiences. All professional development courses are free, but registration is required.
Education grants for East Tennessee teachers
ORAU is accepting applications for its annual Education Grants program, offering $30,000 in grant funding for STEM learning in Anderson, Campbell, Morgan, Roane and Scott counties. Deadline is April 25, 2025.
In April 2024, Meharry Medical College received an ORAU Innovation Partnership Grant to help students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Nashville area attended Meharry’s annual Cancer Survivorship Summit. The summit was a day-long event focused on sharing information about cancer risks, research, and prevention and early detection; and provided opportunities for community members to get needed health and medical screenings. In this conversation, host Michael Holtz talks with the team from Meharry that helped make the summit possible. Also joining the conversation is Robert Briggs, a senior majoring in business management at Lemoyne-Owen College, who is one of the students able to attend the summit because of the ORAU IPG grant.
