Oak Ridge Associated Universities
ORAU welcomes new board members, new consortium institutions
ORAU recently announced the election of three new board members and welcomed three new institutions to its 127-member university consortium.
Handshake recognizes ORAU Workforce Solutions for Early Talent recruiting
ORAU Workforce Solutions is among the recipients of the first-ever Early Talent Awards from Handshake, the online early career community and job search platform. Awards were presented to companies across 12 industry categories. ORAU is among the winners in the Education, Government and Non-Profits category.
ORAU named to Government Services Administration OASIS contract vehicle
ORAU is proud to announce it has been selected by the General Services Administration (GSA) as a One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) Unrestricted Pool 1 Prime Contractor. OASIS is a multiple award, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle designed to address the needs of government agencies for a full range of service requirements that integrate multiple professional service disciplines and ancillary services/products with the flexibility for all contract types and pricing at the task order level.
ORAU’s Kristy Kistner appointed to ISO 9004 international group
Kristy Kistner, ORAU director of performance excellence, is one of three quality management and quality assurance experts appointed to an international ad hoc group established to examine the feasibility of converting International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9004 into a quality assurance standard with stated requirements for organizations to achieve.
Podcast | Workplace resilience: ORISE experts help customers make the transition to remote workforce
Workplaces across the country shifted to remote work to protect people from the fast-spreading coronavirus a year ago, including national laboratories and other federal research agencies. At one point, 80% of ORISE research participation program participants were working remotely. The task to make that shift was enormous, considering RPPs are not designed for remote work. With expert guidance from the ORISE workforce development team and by deploying the technology we've all become used to over the last year, the transition to remote work went smoothly. So did the transition to remote teacher professional development and student STEM education programs, thanks to the K-12 STEM Education team. How did they do it, how will this impact programs for the future, and what happens next? We discuss all of this and more in this extended episode of the ORISE Featurecast.
Going Further. Together.
ORAU provides innovative scientific and technical solutions to advance science education and workforce development and protect health and the environment. We connect the right people and resources to get things done, and we put the full power of our organization behind every project—both large and small.