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purpose of managing and operating the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy. Formed as a 50-50 limited liability partnership between the University of Tennessee and Battelle Memorial Institute, UT-Battelle is the legal entity responsible delivering the Department of Energy’s research mission at ORNL.</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none"> <ul> <li><a href="http://web.ornl.gov/adm/prime_contract/">UT-Battelle Contract</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Both UT and Battelle are committed to serving the U.S. Department of Energy by enhancing ORNL’s leadership in scientific research, laboratory operations and community service. As ORNL’s largest research partner, the University of Tennessee strengthens the Laboratory’s partnerships among state and regional stakeholders. Battelle’s founding purpose, “science in service to humanity,” expresses a special responsibility to the pursuit, and the benefits, of scientific discovery.</p> <p> </p> <p>UT-Battelle places a particular emphasis on promoting science education and has donated more than $8 million to regional outreach initiatives – including $4.5 million for science education – since becoming the managing contractor of ORNL in April 2000. As part of a philosophy of “legacy investments,” UT-Battelle has equipped more than 40 high school science laboratories and recently announced a $100,000 donation to help build new laboratories at Roane State Community College’s Oak Ridge campus. UT-Battelle was a leader in the $55 million renovation of Oak Ridge High School, which included a $2 million gift and loaned executives for the project’s design, communication and fundraising efforts.</p> <p> </p> <h3>Battelle</h3> <ul> <li>A 7,500-person R&D organization, founded in 1929 in Columbus, Ohio, as a non-profit charitable trust with annual revenues of more than $3 billion.</li> <li>Manages or co-manages several other major research facilities, including DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (since 1965), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (since 1998), Brookhaven National Laboratory (since 1998) and Idaho National Laboratory (since 2005); corporate laboratories in Columbus, Ohio, and other U.S. and European locations.</li> <li>Conducts more than 5,000 current projects for 1,100 government and industrial clients.</li> <li>Winner, including those received by its affiliate laboratories, of 191 prestigious “R&D 100” awards given annually by R&D Magazine for the world’s top innovations.</li> <li>Winner of 41 Federal Laboratory Consortium Awards for outstanding accomplishments in science and technology.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <h3>University of Tennessee</h3> <ul> <li>Established in 1794, the University of Tennessee System enrolls about 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students statewide, and more than 11,000 students graduate from UT campuses each year with bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and professional degrees.</li> <li>Research is a critical part of the University’s mission as a land-grant institution. 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