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Jun 25, 2020
Battelle Gets $260M NSF Arctic Research Support Contract; Mike Janus Quoted
ExecutiveBiz #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Battelle has secured a 10-year, $260 million Research Support and Logistics Services contract from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide infrastructure and logistics support to academic researchers conducting NSF-funded studies in Alaska, Greenland, Canada and other Arctic areas, the nonprofit company announced Thursday. -
Jun 22, 2020
REALM Project Releases First Results: Virus Undetectable After Three Days on Five Common Library Materials
School Library Journal #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - The Reopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums (REALM) Project released results from the first phase of the project designed to inform librarians for the safest possible return to the library during the continued threat of the novel coronavirus. -
Jun 22, 2020
Battelle Study: Coronavirus Undetectable On Some Library Materials After Three Days
WOSU Public Media #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - New research from Battelle concludes that the coronavirus is not detectable on five different library materials after three days. -
Jun 17, 2020
Battelle Receives NSF Funding to Track Viruses in Wastewater
Waste & Water Digest #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - A Battelle team of researchers will test wastewater in Toledo, Ohio for the presence of the virus that causes COVID-19 as well as other viral pathogens. -
Jun 01, 2020
3 Questions: Justin Sanchez
Ohio Magazine #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - We talked with Sanchez about Battelle’s culture, Ohio’s role in battling COVID-19 and a possible second wave of the virus. -
May 22, 2020
Revolutionary War Patriots Remembered in Marietta
WTAP #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - “The Battelle Family, that gave, one of the solutions to cleaning the masks for the virus that’s going around, they traced their great grandfather back to a Mr. Battelle who lived in Newport and served in the American Revolution,” said Yost. -
May 20, 2020
Columbus Innovation on Overdrive in Covid-19 Response
Tech Ohio #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Columbus region companies and research institutions are ground zero for development of the equipment, medicine and information sharing the world needs to combat COVID-19. -
May 01, 2020
Neural Interface Restores Touch Sensation After Spinal Cord Injury
Reuters #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - A sensorimotor neural interface successfully restored touch sensation in a patient with quadriplegia resulting from spinal cord injury (SCI), researchers report. -
Apr 27, 2020
A Brain Implant Restored This Man's Motion and Sense of Touch
Wired #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - After spending years working to adjust to his new reality, Burkhart enrolled in an experimental program called NeuroLife at Battelle, a nonprofit research organization in Ohio. The plan was to implant a small computer chip in his brain and use it to improve the range of motion in his arms and to artificially recreate his sense of touch. It was a long shot, but Burkhart says the potential upside was worth it. -
Apr 24, 2020
BCI System Gives Paralyzed Man Back His Sense of Touch with Haptic Feedback
ARS Technica #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Ian Burkhart, now 28, had a diving accident in 2010 that severely damaged his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, with only limited movement in his elbow and shoulders. Thanks to an implanted brain-computer-interface (BCI) developed by Battelle, he has made significant progress over the last six years in restoring small movements; he's even able to play Guitar Hero again. -
Apr 06, 2020
Battelle Memorial Institute Partners with OSU to Create Rapid Results Testing for COVID-19
News 5 Cleveland #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Battelle partnering with Ohio State University for rapid results testing for COVID-19, which can turn around results in as little as five hours. -
Mar 31, 2020
Editorial: Ohio and Battelle Show how To Lead
Columbus Dispatch #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - While a global public-health crisis isn’t a time for boasting, Ohioans can take pride on two fronts — Columbus-based Battelle’s research labs providing solutions to the world’s most urgent challenge and Gov. Mike DeWine getting results through deft leadership. -
Mar 16, 2020
Companies Telling Employees to Stay Home Due to Coronavirus Concerns
WSYX/WTTE ABC 6 #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Several Central Ohio companies are telling employees to work from home as COVID-19 concerns hit Ohio. Battelle - Starting Friday, employees who can work from home were told to do so. -
Mar 09, 2020
Coronavirus In Ohio: What Workplaces Will Do If There's An Outbreak
WOSU Public Media #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday declared a state of emergency after Ohio officials identified the first three cases of COVID-19 in the state. If the coronavirus spreads throughout the state as it has in others, like Washington, that will likely mean quarantine and a major change in how work is done. -
Feb 28, 2020
Women of Influence: How TV's Alex P. Keaton Influenced Amy Heintz's Career
Columbus Business First #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Heintz went to college at the University of Michigan (you'll have to listen to the episode for her surprising take on Ohio State football fans) and tried out a few different areas of study before falling in love with chemistry. -
Feb 17, 2020
Biologists Recreate the Coronavirus from Its DNA Code
MIT Technology Review #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Synthetic versions of the deadly virus could help test treatments. But what are the risks when viruses can be synthesized from scratch? -
Jan 29, 2020
Stephen Steinour Joins Battelle Board; Lou Von Thaer Quoted
GovCon Wire #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Stephen Steinour, president and CEO of bank holding company Huntington Bancshares, has joined the board of directors of Battelle. -
Jan 24, 2020
Battelle Awarded DARPA SIGMA+ Contract for Biological Threat Sensors
Global Biodefense #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Battelle Memorial Institute has been awarded a $7,483,871 contract option for further research and development of an advanced networked biological threat sensor as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s SIGMA+ program. -
Oct 24, 2019
STEMx Network Invests in State, Rural STEM Innovations
Industry Week #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - The network of 18 STEM organizations across 16 states provides an accessible platform to share, analyze and disseminate quality STEM education tools. -
Oct 18, 2019
The US Military is Trying to Read Minds
MIT Technology Review #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - A new DARPA research program is developing brain-computer interfaces that could control “swarms of drones, operating at the speed of thought.” What if it succeeds?