ORAU has more than 30 years of experience managing comprehensive health programs for a wide range of occupational exposures, helping our clients ensure they stay compliant with industry regulations. Together with our partners, we have the expertise to provide targeted exposure screenings, total wellness evaluations, illness and injury surveillance, and even historical exposure assessments such as radiation dose reconstruction.
The Partnership for Nuclear Energy (PNE) addresses critical challenges and opportunities in the nuclear sector, particularly in education, training, and workforce development. In collaboration with academia, government, and industry, ORAU is working to bridge the gaps and drive collective action and ensure a more comprehensive clean energy strategy.
Stela Silva, Ph.D., an astrophysicist in the NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, has her eye to the sky, sort of. Working with gravitational microlensing, which she says is "the physical phenomenon that happens when we're observing a star and then another star with a planet passes in front of it," and machine learning she looks for signatures of exoplanets. The chance of finding a star is one in a million, Silva says, and she and her fellow researchers look at millions of stars at the same time trying to detect exoplanets. Silva grew up in Brazil, where NASA seemed as far away as the stars she now studies. But she and her grandfather shared a loved of astronomy, and she worked hard toward her dream of being at NASA.
For more than 80 years, ORAU has served as a trusted partner to our government customers, our university consortium members, and our local community. In this video, you can meet some of the people behind the ORAU name.
