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Podcast
Studying clouds on the sun: A conversation with Veronika Jercic, Ph.D., NASA Postdoctoral Fellow
Veronika Jercic, Ph.D., is a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. She studies structures in the solar atmosphere known as prominences or filaments. Jercic calls them clouds on the sun. These clouds are important to…
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Blog Post
Pathway to Trades Summit tackles skilled trades workforce needs amid nuclear expansion
Leaders from labor organizations, industry, government, education and community support services convened at the Pathway to Trades Summit to address one of the region’s most urgent challenges: building a skilled workforce capable of meeting the…
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Podcast
A 6-year-old's dream of becoming a physicist came true: A conversation with Maurice Roots, Ph.D., NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
Maurice Roots, Ph.D., was six years old when he watched “Star Trek” and decided to be a physicist. His dream came true and today he is an atmospheric physicist in the NASA Postdoctoral Program researching atmospheric chemistry and…
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Podcast
Meeting the need for skilled trades workers in the nuclear energy industry: ORAU's Pathway to Trades Summit
Oak Ridge is at the nexus of the nuclear energy renaissance. One of the challenges is meeting the demand for the necessary workforce, and not just the scientific and technical workforce but the skilled trades workers needed to build out and operate…
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News
ORAU’s Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity now offered to Oak Ridge bus tour participants
As the Department of Energy (DOE) Public Bus Tour celebrates its 30th year of operation, participants now have an exciting new opportunity on their journey through Oak Ridge’s historic “Secret City.” The tour now includes access to ORAU’s Museum of…
