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Remarkable Robotics: ROVs Shine in ONR-Sponsored International SeaPerch Challenge

More than 130 teams of elementary, middle and high school students from around the world competed at the annual International SeaPerch Challenge on June 4 at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland.
June 10, 2022

You Go, Girls: ONR Robotics Help the SciGirls

ONR's SeaPerch will be featured in PBS series "SciGirls."
October 12, 2012

ONR Researcher Wins Prestigious Delores M. Etter Award

Dr. Thomas McKenna, program manager in the Office of Naval Research’s Warfighter Performance Department, was honored with the prestigious 2009 Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award on July 23 at the Pentagon.
July 23, 2010

ONR, NRL Garner Four 2025 Dr. Dolores M. Etter Awards

The Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Dr. Peter Squire received two 2025 Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientist and Engineer awards for his contributions to warfighter lethality and readiness during a virtual awards ceremony hosted by Dr. Brett A. Seidle, the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition on June 25.
July 10, 2025

Cognitive Neuroscientist Shares Psychology of Brain Function in ONR Lecture Series

Dr. Michael Posner, a cognitive neuroscientist and University of Oregon professor emeritus, will share how attention works and how it can be mapped in the brain during a lecture from 1 to 2:30 p.m. March 31 at the Office of Naval Research.
March 30, 2010

ONR Announces 2008 Young Investigator Award Recipients

The Office of Naval Research announces the recipients of its 2008 Young Investigator Program.
March 14, 2008

Navy, Carnegie Mellon Enter Education Partnership

The Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University have entered into an Education Partnership Agreement to encourage and strengthen studies in the scientific disciplines.
August 15, 2018

ONR Develops Capability to Understand Effects of Underwater Pressure on Divers

The Office of Naval Research has reached a new threshold in underwater medical studies.
August 10, 2011

USS Freedom (LCS 1) Commissioned Ship's Capabilities Enhanced by ONR Cutting-Edge S&T

The USS Freedom, the Navy’s first littoral combat ship (LCS 1), was commissioned earlier this month at Veterans Park in Milwaukee.
November 14, 2008

A Mighty Wind: Using Wind Tunnels to Measure Sound by Deadening the Noise

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) sponsored a project at Virginia Tech University nearly 20 years ago that is now growing in influence across the world for measuring aerospace and aeronautical acoustics. Since noise reverberates against solid surfaces, such as the walls of a wind tunnel where acoustical testing takes place, collecting accurate sound data had been nearly impossible at the time. Researchers were also struggling to discern the sound of the wind tunnel’s air flow from the noise of the object traveling through it. After learning about some experiments on Kevlar as a wind screen, William Devenport, an engineering professor and director of Virginia Tech’s Stability Wind Tunnel, said he and a colleague wrote a proposal to then-ONR program officer Ron Joslin to try adding Kevlar to their wind tunnel walls. Devenport submitted the original grant proposal (N00014–04–1–04933) through the FY 2004 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) for alterations to Virginia Tech’s existing Stability Wind Tunnel that would allow it to measure flow-induced noise of relevance to Navy applications.

August 14, 2023