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Blog Post
CAD Design and 3D Printing Mini-Academy is about both hard and soft skills
The ORAU CAD Design and 3D Printing Mini-Academy was a workshop for rising 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th-grade students, which was held in the classroom on ORAU’s main campus, June 4 and 5, 2025. The workshop offered a dynamic, hands-on approach to…
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News
ORAU employees set new record at recycling event
ORAU’s annual Earth Day recycling event set a record by diverting over 10 tons of recyclables from landfills, including techno-waste, medications, personal documents, and donations. This impactful event empowers employees to responsibly dispose of…
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Feature Story
ORAU grant program celebrates, strengthens university partnerships for innovation in STEM
ORAU’s Innovation Partnerships Grant (IPG) program funds events that can bring more thought leadership around the topic of building a national strategy for STEM education and workforce capacity building.
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Podcast
Searching for the origins of life one RNA molecule at a time: A conversation with Alberto Vazquez-Salazar, Ph.D.
Alberto Vazquez-Salazar, Ph.D., is a NASA postdoctoral fellow working at UCLA in the lab of Professor Irene Chen. He studies how life may have started on Earth by focusing on a molecule called RNA, or ribonucleic acid, which is a critical…
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Blog Post
6 ways to help close the gap between the nuclear workforce supply and demand
Learn about the problem facing the United States in supplying the demand of the nuclear workforce and the steps we must take together to solve the problem.