Battelle In the News

American Libraries #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - The REopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums (REALM) project aims to make these questions easier to answer. REALM—a collaboration among organizations OCLC, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and science and technology development nonprofit Battelle Memorial Institute—has been conducting research since April 22 on how long the COVID-19 virus survives on materials common to libraries, archives, and museums.

Intelligence Community News #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Battelle announced on August 27 that it was awarded a $16.6 million task order contract under the Microelectronics and Embedded Systems Assurance (MESA) IDIQ contract vehicle, where Battelle is a prime contractor.

ExecutiveGov #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Battelle has announced that its company researchers have supported three Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) projects to analyze the timeline of how long COVID-19 lives on a variety of surfaces and what available disinfecting products are effective.

NewsTalk #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Restoring motion and touch to those who have lost it is a monumental task and one that this week's guest is at the forefront of.

Deal Architect #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Lou Von Thaer, who is President and CEO of Battelle talks the "new normal" which can be expected in the world of science and technology.

Massive Science #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Researchers at Battelle Memorial Institute and the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University were able to use a brain-machine interface (BMI) to partially restore Burkhart’s ability to move his own hand.

ZD Net #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Ohio-based R&D company Battelle is one of six groups to receive DARPA funding for a minimally invasive system that should eventually be able to gather and transmit information to soldiers' brains.

ZD Net #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - In the US, Battelle has created a BCI system that works by gathering 'residual touch' signals. Someone with a complete spinal cord injury may feel no sense of touch whatsoever below a certain level on their body, but often the faintest wisps of nerve fibre connecting the brain and the periphery still exist. They may not be strong enough to cause a person to feel a sensation of touch, but they can still provoke electrical activity in the brain. Battelle's system picks up the signals in the brain via an array in the motor cortex, decodes and amplifies them, and then passes on the sensory feedback to a separate area on the users' body which still has a working sense of touch.

Art Critique #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - During the end of June and throughout July, REALM Project researchers conducted studies on five more library standards: braille paper pages; glossy paper pages; magazine pages; children’s board books; and archival folders. Held at standard room temperatures with typical humidity conditions in order to mimic usual storage methods, the items were inoculated and placed in stacks or on shelves. After two days of quarantine, archival folders were free of SARS-CoV-2 and after four days, braille pages, glossy pages, and board books were also found to be free of SARS-CoV-2. However, even after four days of quarantine, magazine pages still showed trace amounts of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

GovCon Wire #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Battelle has donated $1 million to the Washington State STEM Education Foundation to advance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in the Tri-Cities, the company announced Thursday.

Tri-City Herald #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Battelle is donating $1 million to help turn students in the Tri-Cities area into the next generation of scientists and engineers.

The Columbus Dispatch #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - Battelle is donating $2.15 million to the Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation to support the library’s “Young Minds” initiatives.

ABC 6 #ResourceNotFound: NewsWidgetResources, OpensNewPage# - The Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation (CMLF) shared it has received a $2.15 million gift from Battelle in support of Columbus Metropolitan Library’s (CML) Young Minds programs and services.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.