More than 1,000 students gathered last week for a local school system’s annual career day, joining the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and nearly 60 other companies and organizations from across the region.
In the half century since the inception of the Waste Management Symposia, many EM sites have come full circle, cleaned and transformed into wildlife refuges, wetland preserves and national parks, U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk remarked in a prerecorded video message to the audience at the annual conference.
EM marked transformative accomplishments in fiscal year 2023, highlighting significant hiring and innovation advances, and a strengthened commitment to veteran employment and workforce diversity.
EM’s contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site took an important step in its efforts to support science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) education in Idaho with the formation of its weSTEAM program.
EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is giving nine college students the opportunity to jump-start their careers this year through a hybrid work program while finishing their engineering or computer science studies.
Dozens of high school students recently came to the HAMMER Federal Training Center to experience a “STEM Day” and get an up-close look at the EM cleanup mission and Hanford Site career opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math fields.
Savannah River Site (SRS) contractors recently celebrated the U.S. Department of Labor’s 9th Annual National Apprenticeship Week with site-wide and community events to bring awareness to 22 different registered apprenticeship occupations.
EM Office of River Protection contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) has earned state and local accolades for its commitment to support veterans.
Alexis Andaverde recently joined the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) full time as an EM Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (EM MSIPP) graduate fellow in the Advanced Modeling and Simulation group.
Florida International University (FIU) and DOE inducted 12 fellows — 10 from EM and two from the DOE Office of Legacy Management — into the Science and Technology Workforce Development Program during a ceremony last week.