ORAU is proud to play a role in contributing to our nation’s economic and societal benefit though the administration of workforce development programs. We are a purpose-driven team that has developed program specific platforms and implements best-in-class processes to maximize the value of the investments being made by our Federal partners.
ORAU is a leading provider of radiological characterization staffed with highly-skilled health physicists and radiation safety experts. Our results are backed by more than 35 years of experience working with federal and state agencies.
Maggie Weng, Ph.D., NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, studies how life survives in super salty environments. She says one of her favorite things about doing this research is going to extreme environments to take samples from places on earth that exhibit the kinds of conditions that we're interested in studying. Those samples serve as analogs for what conditions might be like on other worlds or might have been like in the past. For example, Mars used to have a warmer and wetter climate, so she can study places on earth that might have resembled ancient Mars.
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.
