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• Battelle Donates $1 million to advance STEM education in the Mid-Columbia

  7/16/2020

  Battelle President and CEO Lou Von Thaer announced today that Battelle is donating $1 million to the Washington State STEM Education Foundation to advance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in the Tri-Cities. The news was shared during virtual visit by Von Thaer to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as part of the celebration of Battelle’s 90 th Anniversary. Battelle manages

• Battelle Backs Social Organizations Striving for Improved Society

  7/1/2020

  Battelle has directed philanthropic giving to the Columbus Urban League, Equal Justice Initiative and United Negro College Fund in the form of $100,000 gifts to each.

•  Battelle Awarded Contract to Enable Arctic Research

  6/25/2020

  The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Battelle the Arctic Research Support and Logistics Services contract. On this 10-year, $260 million contract, Battelle and its partners will provide infrastructure and logistics support to academic researchers conducting NSF-funded studies in Alaska, Greenland, Canada and other Arctic areas. Through this contract, Ba

• Ohio Schools Earn State STEM/STEAM Designation

  5/22/2020

  Ten new Ohio schools received STEM/STEAM School Designation. The Ohio STEM Committee approved applications for schools that implement best practices in STEM and STEAM education.

• Satya Chauhan Named Battelle Inventor of the Year

  5/21/2020

  Battelle has honored Satya Chauhan as its Inventor of the Year and Kavitha Dasu as its most recent Emerging Scientist.

• Battelle Donates $1 Million to Support Three Central Ohio Organizations Providing Essential, High-Demand Services During Coronavirus Pandemic

  4/15/2020

  As part of its mission to make positive impacts in the city it’s called home for 90 years, Battelle announced it is donating a total of $1 million to three central Ohio organizations to provide increased emergency support because of the coronavirus pandemic. “It is well known that, in normal time

• Battelle Develops System to Decontaminate Personal Protective Equipment to Meet Growing Demand During COVID-19 Crisis

  3/30/2020

  Battelle announced that it has received Food and Drug Administration Emergency Use Authorization to support front-line healthcare workers as they face critical shortages of personal protective equipment.

• Battelle and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Create and Use New High Throughput Diagnostic Test for COVID-19

  3/30/2020

  Battelle and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center have jointly developed a new rapid, sensitive diagnostic test for COVID-19.

• Battelle CCDS Critical Care Decontamination System™ Being Deployed to Meet Urgent Need for Personal Protective Equipment for Nation’s Healthcare Workforce

  3/28/2020

  Battelle announced that it has begun rapid manufacturing of a system to decontaminate N95 respirator masks and other medical protective equipment.

• NASA Names Next Mars Rover Following Year-Long Student Essay Contest With Battelle, Future Engineers

  3/5/2020

  NASA's next Mars rover has a new name—Perseverance. The name was selected as the culmination of a year-long competition organized by the space agency, Battelle and Future Engineers..

• Battelle Names New Leaders of Education/Philanthropy, Human Resources

  2/25/2020

  Feb. 25, 2020 14:19 UTC COLUMBUS, Ohio--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Battelle has named Wes Hall as its Vice President of Education and Philanthropy, succeeding Aimee Kennedy, who is now Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Both have been serving in the roles on an interim basis since August 2019. Kennedy came to Battelle in 2013 as VP of Education, Philanthropy and STEM Learning after being the principal of the Metro Early College High School, a science, technology, engineerin

• PAST Receives Generous Grant From Battelle to Accelerate STEM Education Impact

  2/12/2020

  The PAST Foundation and Battelle announced that a $400,000 grant from Battelle will expand the “Innovation in Teaching” Fellowship program.

• Stephen D. Steinour Elected to Battelle Board of Directors

  1/28/2020

  Battelle announced that Stephen D. Steinour, Chairman, President and CEO of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, has been elected to the Battelle Board of Directors.

• Battelle Fellow Justin Sanchez to Highlight Neurotechnology Breakthroughs at CES

  1/6/2020

  His speech, focused on the capability of connecting our brains and bodies with the outside world in ways previously impossible, will take place in the Digital Health Summit conference track at CES

• Teachers, Students Meet Legislators in First Ohio Computer Science Advocacy Day

  12/10/2019

  Seeking expanded computer science education across the state, teachers and students from 26 Ohio schools will gather at the Ohio Statehouse for the first-ever Computer Science Advocacy day.

• National Ecological Observatory Network Experts and Collaborators to Attend the Annual American Geophysical Union Meeting

  12/6/2019

  The 100th gathering of the American Geophysical Union Dec. 9-13 will feature dozens of staff members from the National Ecological Observatory Network who will present papers, give talks and demonstrate ways to use the growing body of information collected by the nation’s first continental-scale laboratory with data portal demos.

• STEMx Network Invests in State Innovations, Including Rural STEM Education

  10/24/2019

  The national STEMx network announced funding for five states to expand quality STEM education programs and add to the national conversation on innovative education.

• Dedrone Acquires DroneDefender™ Defeat Technology from Battelle

  10/8/2019

  Airspace security technology company launches consultancy, Dedrone Defense, providing authorized customers a complete detect and defeat system to protect themselves against adversary drones

• National Science Foundation Issues Extension to Battelle to Operate the National Ecological Observatory Network

  9/10/2019

  Battelle has been awarded an extension to the cooperative agreement allowing it to continue operating the National Ecological Observatory Network for the National Science Foundation through the beginning of fiscal year 2022.

• Battelle Introduces New Passive Sampler for PFAS

  9/9/2019

  As concerns about Americans’ exposure to a certain group of chemical substances continues to grow, Battelle researchers have added another tool in their suite to help assess and understand occurrence.