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Release Date: August 1994
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WILEY TO ASSUME NEW LEADERSHIP ROLE
RICHLAND, WA -- Dr. William R. Wiley, director of the Pacific Northwest Laboratory since 1984, has been named senior vice president for science and technology policy for Battelle Memorial Institute. Battelle operates PNL for the U.S. Department of Energy.
In his new role, Wiley will focus full-time on national science and technology policy, government-industry-university partnerships, international and national speaking platforms, education initiatives and Battelle-wide marketing efforts. He will continue to live in Richland and will split his professional time between Richland/Seattle, Columbus, Ohio, and Washington, D.C.
Replacing Wiley as director of PNL will be Dr. William J. Madia, a senior vice president at Battelle's corporate offices in Columbus. Both changes are effective August 1, 1994.
According to Battelle President and CEO Douglas E. Olesen, Wiley's new position is a reflection of his numerous accomplishments at PNL in science and technology development, community service and education, as well as his standing as a recognized national figure.
"We are making this move in recognition of the major achievements gained by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory under Bill's leadership," Olesen said. "Under Bill's direction, PNL was elevated to a national laboratory, while the staff size and business volume more than doubled. (PNL's staff has grown from 2,100 to 4,500 since 1984 and business volume has increased from $190 million to more than $500 million during the same period). But the real success and recognition of PNL during Bill's tenure has been to focus the laboratory on environmental quality as a primary mission, a mission that is central and relevant to the national laboratory system.
"This focus led to the start of construction on the new $230-million Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory, the only major DOE facility new start since 1989," Olesen added. "When the national user facility is finished in 1997, it will be the culmination of Bill's and laboratory staff's efforts to make PNL into an 'institution without walls' to create new ways to restore our environment.
"As a result of his vision and foresight, Battelle and PNL are positioned to help DOE in its transition from focusing on issues relating to national security to focusing on issues relating to national economic security and the environment," he said. "Bill now will be free to apply his vision to enhancing national policy in the science and technology arena."
Among his many professional, educational and civic affiliations, Wiley is a director of the Seattle Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the Washington Roundtable, the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, and serves on the Washington State University Board of Regents. In addition, he is a trustee of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and serves on the Board of Directors of the Tri-City Industrial Development Council.
Wiley participated in the Economic Conference convened by President Clinton and Vice President Gore in Little Rock, Arkansas, in December 1992. He is a member of the Citizen Cabinet formed by Washington Governor Mike Lowry to serve as a sounding board during his four-year term and is a member of the Governor's Economic Development and Environmental Enhancement Task Force.
Wiley also is a member of the Advisory Board to the National Foreign Language Center at the Johns Hopkins University and a Foundation Associate to Seattle's Pacific Science Center. Just recently, he was named by Congress to be a member of the Office of Technology Assessment for Russian reactor activities.
He has won numerous awards, but Wiley is most proud of being named National Black Engineer of the Year this spring and Rotary's Tri-Citian of the Year in 1989.
Wiley joined Battelle as a microbiologist in February 1965 and served as director of research between 1979 and 1984. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Tougaloo College in Mississippi in 1954, a master's degree in microbiology from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1960 and a doctorate in bacteriology from Washington State University in 1965.
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