Battelle Center for Science, Engineering and Public Policy

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Ethan Rivera Leads Panel on Public Affairs Collaborations in STEM Education

Ethan Rivera, of Battelle Center, convened a panel at the NASPAA Annual Conference on the ways public affairs and STEM education can connect to create a richer educational experience joined by Shannon Portillo of Arizona State University and Jackie Speedy of Carnegie Melon University.
October 20, 2023
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Interim Director Kevin Cullen Writes about Supporting Veteran Employees

The transition from military to civilian service remains difficult, as few organizations have developed deliberate strategies in this area. This article presents five strategies for organizations to better support veterans in the workplace.
October 19, 2023
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Corporate Member, Invenergy, Flies in to Speak with Students About Energy Policy, Jobs, and Opportunities

One of our first corporate members at Ohio State Battelle Center joined our students to talk about the political climate for energy in Ohio and discussed Invenergy’s efforts to create meaningful connection with communities.
October 12, 2023

Student Communities

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Alice Bowman, Mission Operations Manager of New Horizons, Shares her Inspiring Story with Students

Our Student Community welcomed an incredible guest speaker from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. Alice Bowman, The Mission Operations Manager (MOM) of the New Horizons Mission, joined students to talk about the historic mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
October 5, 2023
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Students Play Games, Create Community, and Learn Communication Skills

Ohio State Battelle Center for Science, Engineering and Public Policy is running some new programming this semester. We are bringing our skills trainings with a little twist. Playing board games that help make our community a little more fun and bring the community closer together.
September 26, 2023
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Jacob Stonehill, Ohio State PhD Student, Shares His Story for Air & Space Community

This community conversation was very different from our usual events with a guest speaker embedded in industry. This was an opportunity for students to learn more of the personal toll and thoughts of going through an undergraduate degree, finding his way to graduate school, and working full-time.
September 25, 2023

Innovation

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Rapid Innovation Solutions: Feed the Need

PUBAFRS 5620: Rapid Innovation for Public Impact is a course that challenges students to tackle wicked problems. Students are put into interdisciplinary teams and given a problem sponsored by a government agency or non-profit.A student team in our Rapid Innovation course tackles the complex problem of food insecurity.
August 17, 2021

Public Interest

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Ohio State’s Innovation and Public Administration Experts to Lead National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Academic Consortium

The Ohio State University will lead a multi-university consortium to serve the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) need for education, workforce development, and research in geomatics and other applied sciences.
October 3, 2022
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Ohio State Battelle Center Receives PIT-UN Funding for New Student Fellows

New America’s Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) has made Ohio State Battelle Center for Science, Engineering and Public Policy one of their 2021 Grantees for their annual Network Challenge.
December 15, 2021
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Air & Space Community Conversations Series Joined by Matthew Dykstra of BlackSky

In September, Matthew Dykstra, Senior Intelligence Analyst with BlackSky, joined our Air & Space Community Conversation series to talk about geospatial imaging.
October 5, 2021