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Lexi Sinnott named director of ORAU Facilities and Transportation Department
ORAU named Alexia (Lexi) Sinnott as its new director of the ORAU Facilities and Transportation Department (FTD). Sinnott’s background includes 20 years of property/logistics experience with the last 11 years in FTD where she has served as interim…
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ORAU elects new members to its board of directors
ORAU announces the election of new members to its board of directors and the joint nominating committee for its board and the Council of Sponsoring Institutions. The election took place during the board’s spring meeting on Thursday, March 19, 2026.
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Podcast
Dreaming in space: A conversation with Ricardo Branco, Ph.D., NASA NPP Fellow
Ricardo Branco, Ph.D., is a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His research focuses on the development of detectors that can detect infrared or thermal radiation from very cold bodies throughout the solar system – think…
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Cultivate your curiosity: A conversation with Kirtan Dixit, Ph.D., NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
Kirtan Dixit, Ph.D., is a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow in the second year of his fellowship at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He is part of the high-energy astrophysics, high-energy optics group on advances X-ray optics for…
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ORAU University Consortium grows to 172 institutions with the addition of 13 new members
ORAU welcomed 13 new institutions to its 172-member university consortium. The announcement was made during the ORAU Annual Meeting of the Council of Sponsoring Institutions on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. Several member institutions were presented with…
