A total of 180 students hailing from 59 colleges and 15 states recently earned spots in an a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) contractor’s paid summer internship program at the Savannah River Site.
Byron Smith joined the EM Nevada Program in spring 2022 to work as a real-time radiography technician. The former X-ray technician started the job with more than a decade of experience in radiology.
Nearly 85 miles west of Oak Ridge, 10,000 students attend Tennessee Tech University.
For almost four decades, EM's Savannah River Site (SRS) and the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center at the University of South Carolina Aiken (USC Aiken) have partnered to bring science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education to area student.
A DOE Office of Environmental Management contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) awarded 114 local educators grants ranging from $500 to $1,000 during a recent celebration.
Students from Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina, recently toured EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS) to learn about the array of occupations and operations across the 310-square-mile environmental reservation.
Students from three regional high schools recently teamed up for Hack the Plastics, an event created by EM’s Paducah Site cleanup contractor to “hack,” or propose solutions, to help solve a part of the global plastics waste problem.
While preparing for a recent podcast episode that brought attention to EM’s hiring efforts and associated challenges, Michael Butler, host of the “Gone Fission Nuclear Report Podcast,” came across a recent college graduate who joined EM.
Oak Ridge’s cleanup contractor is awarding $40,000 in grants for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) projects that benefit 29 schools across a nine-county region.
In a continued effort to raise awareness of EM’s hiring initiatives amid a swelling number of job vacancies, an employee of the cleanup program’s Workforce Management Office joined the “Gone Fission Nuclear Report Podcast” last week.