BATTELLE’S ROSEN TO RECEIVE OHIO STATE’S DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

COLUMBUS, OH—(March 19,2010) Rich Rosen, Battelle’s Vice President of Education and Philanthropy, will be honored by The Ohio State University with the school’s Distinguished Service Award. The award will be presented during the university’s Winter Commencement ceremony on March 21 at the Jerome Schottenstein Center. Rosen holds a Master’s Degree in biomedical engineering from Ohio State and earned the OSU College of Engineering’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007.

 

The Distinguished Service Award was established by the school’s Board of Trustees in 1952 to recognize individuals who have rendered exceptional service to the university. Awards are not made on the basis of long, faithful, or loyal service alone, but rather for truly distinguished service. Recipients of this award have provided a broad spectrum of services to the university in both official and unofficial capacities.

 

Rosen has played many roles at Battelle during his 29 years with the company. He currently leads Battelle’s educational initiatives in Ohio and across the United States. Battelle focuses its educational efforts on the curriculum of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Working closely with the university’s College of Education and Human Ecology and the Education Council, Rosen played a lead role in creating Metro Early College High School, a non-selective public high school that stimulates student interest in STEM and graduates its first class of 72 students in May. Metro led to the creation of the Ohio STEM Learning Network with 10 STEM schools and 26 K-8 Programs of Excellence operating across Ohio.

 

Rosen helped orchestrate the establishment of the Battelle Center in Math and Science Education Policy at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. The Center’s interdisciplinary focus is targeted to the K-12 arena and its work is supported by a $4 million grant from Battelle. He also collaborated with the university’s medical center to secure multi-million dollar grants through Ohio’s Third Frontier Program.

 

Beyond research and development, Rosen also was instrumental in economic development projects with OSU. These include the creation of the WOSU public broadcasting station at COSI as well as the OSU Urban Arts Space at the Lazarus Building, both located in downtown Columbus. He also was a founder of TechColumbus in partnership with OSU, and this work has significantly increased the connection between the OSU campus and local entrepreneurial talent.

 

Rosen’s award is further evidence of Battelle and Ohio State’s growing relationship. In addition to collaborating on education reform, both organizations employ Blake Thompson in a joint appointment, Vice President Institutional Affairs, for the Battelle/Ohio State collaboration and Thompson is tasked with spearheading broad interactions between the two institutions. Additionally, Battelle President and CEO Jeff Wadsworth is the Chairman of the Ohio State Medical Center board and Barbara Kunz, President of Battelle’s Health and Life Science Global Business, serves on Ohio State’s James Cancer Hospital board.

As the world’s largest, independent research and development organization, Battelle provides innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing needs through its four global businesses: Laboratory Management, National Security, Energy Technology, and Health and Life Sciences. It advances scientific discovery and application by conducting $5.6 billion in global R&D annually through contract research, laboratory management and technology commercialization. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Battelle oversees 20,400 employees in more than 130 locations worldwide, including seven national laboratories which Battelle manages or co-manages for the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and two international laboratories—a nuclear energy lab in the United Kingdom and a renewable energy lab in Malaysia.

 

Battelle also is one of the nation’s leading charitable trusts focusing on societal and economic impact and actively supporting and promoting science and math education.

 

Media contacts:
Katy Delaney at (614) 424-7208, delaneyk@battelle.org,
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