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Listed below are Oak Ridge Associated Universities’ (ORAU) announcements for the current calendar year. You can search our news releases by choosing to sort by date, headline or topic. For news releases from previous years, please visit our News Archives.

Date Headline Topic
8/31/2010 ORAU awards $33,000 in education grants to area schools Corporate
8/27/2010 Pender selected as ORAU's director of special projects for science education Corporate
08/27/2010 Media advisory: ORAU to sward $31,000 in education grants to area schools Community
08/17/2010 Medical evaluations reveal no adverse health effects caused by coal fly ash spill at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant Public Health
08/17/2010 Media advisory: Results report released today on medical evaluations from TVA Kingston Fly ash spill Public Health
08/11/2010 Winner of ORAU’s Extreme Classroom Makeover reveals technologically outfitted classroom Community
08/10/2010 Media advisory: ORAU unveils Extreme Classroom Makeover for Rocky Hill Elementary’s Jordan Haney Community
07/27/2010 Nuclear engineering degrees decrease, enrollments increase in 2009 Workforce Development
07/23/2010 Outstanding Appalachian students and teachers partner with national lab scientists Science Education
07/20/2010 Climate, global warming and energy are hot topics at Oak Ridge Science Camp this week Science Education
07/12/2010 Winners of Volkswagen Distinguished Scholars Program announced Workforce Development
06/17/2010 Some of the Nation’s brightest graduate students are chosen to meet with Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany Corporate
06/17/2010 ORAU sponsors 10 graduate student researchers to meet Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany Corporate
06/15/2010 ORISE report shows number of health physics Ph.D.s declined in 2009 Workforce Development
06/14/2010 Lester to lead ORAU’s scientific and technical peer review program Corporate
06/10/2010 ORAU and ORNL announce winners of High-Performance Computing Grant competition Corporate
06/10/2010 ORAU awards 32 research grants to junior faculty from the sponsoring institutions of its consortium University Partnerships
05/21/2010 ORAU awards 2010 Pollard Scholarships to outstanding students Corporate
05/17/2010 Garrison selected as ORAU’s vice president of University Partnerships Corporate
05/12/2010 ORAU Sponsors Tennessee Middle School Math Competition Science Education
04/28/2010 ORAU Awards Rocky Hill Elementary School $25,000 in 2010 Extreme Classroom Makeover Competition Community
04/27/2010 ORAU and Imagination Library Bring Books to Life Community
04/26/2010 Hopson Joins ORAU as Senior Communications and Marketing Specialist Corporate
04/23/2010 ORAU Wins Award for Excellence from International Association of Administrative Professionals Corporate
04/21/2010 Roberts Selected to Lead and Toohey Named Associate Director of ORAU's Independent Environmental Assessment and Verification Program Corporate
04/08/2010 ORAU Board Welcomes Two New Directors, Re-elects Another Corporate
03/26/2010 ORAU Welcomes Southern University and A&M College as Sponsoring Institution — Appalachian State University and Norfolk State University Join as Associate Members University Partnerships
03/24/2010 Crapo Named Associate Director for Readiness in ORAU’s National Security and Emergency Management Programs Corporate
03/22/2010 Perry Named ORAU's Planning Group Manager for National Security and Emergency Management Programs Corporate
03/15/2010 ORAU Member Universities Explore Current Trends and Future Opportunities for Educating the Energy Workforce University Partnerships
03/10/2010 Toohey Confirmed as Board Member of National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements Corporate
03/04/2010 ORAU Seeks Proposals for Commercial Uses of TVA Coal Fly Ash Research
03/01/2010 ORAU Announces Six Project Teams as Recipients Of More Than $2M in TVA-Funded Coal Ash Research Grants Research
02/12/2010 ORAU and ORNL Partnering with Siemens Foundation, College Board and Discovery Education to Host ‘Siemens Teachers as Researchers’ Program Science Education
01/25/2010 Holbrook, USF VP of Research and Innovation, Elected ORAU Board Vice Chair Corporate
01/19/2010 ORAU Now Accepting Poster Abstracts for National TVA-Sponsored Fly Ash Research Symposium Research
12/21/2009 Oak Ridge Associated Universities Donates $10,000 to Clinton’s Green McAdoo Cultural Center Community
12/04/2009 East Tennessee Students Get a Lesson in Harnessing the Sun Science Education
12/02/2009 MEDIA ADVISORY: East Tennessee Students Get a Lesson in Harnessing the Sun Science Education
11/19/2009 ORAU Hosts Area Teachers for Alternative Energy Generator Demonstration and Seminar Science Education
11/19/2009 ORAU Hosts East Tennessee Government, Economic Leaders with the Goal of Strengthening Communities Corporate
11/18/2009 ORAU Gets the “Gold” for New Environmentally Friendly Building Corporate
11/18/2009 ORAU Donation Helps Bring 278th Regiment Home for the Holidays Community
11/16/2009 ORAU Establishes Mentor Protégé Relationship with National Resource Management, LLC Corporate
11/16/2009 ORAU’s Center for Science Education: First New Office Building Certified LEED Gold in Tennessee Corporate
11/06/2009 ORAU Now Accepting Applications for Volkswagen Distinguished Scholars Program Science Education
11/04/2009 ORAU Seeks Applicants for the 2010 Extreme Classroom Makeover Science Education
11/04/2009 ORAU Giving Campaign is Overwhelming Success Despite Economy Community
10/23/2009 ORISE Earns Fourth Consecutive DOE “Star of Excellence” Corporate
10/19/2009 Hackemeyer is Selected to Lead ORAU's National Security and Emergency Management Programs Corporate
10/12/2009 Kitts Promoted to ORAU Business Development Representative Corporate
10/08/2009 Abelquist Named ORAU Executive Vice President and Deputy Director of ORISE Corporate
09/14/2009 ORAU Awards $30,000 in Education Grants to Nine Area Schools Community
09/09/2009 Media Advisory: ORAU to Award $30,000 in Education Grants to Nine Area Schools Community
09/03/2009 ORAU Seeks Proposals for High-Performance Computing Grants University Partnerships
09/02/2009 ORAU’s Laboratory for Beryllium Lymphocyte Proliferation Testing Receives Accreditation from the College of American Pathologists Worker Health