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  • A Conversation With MIT Media Lab’s Ramesh Raskar

    A Conversation With MIT Media Lab’s Ramesh Raskar

    The professor discusses his early influences, approach to technology, and solving the right problem at the right time. In September 2016, Dr. Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab and holder of more than 75 patents, was awarded the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for his work in developing radical imaging solutions. The WallMore

  • Growing Global Invention Ecosystems to Solve Our Sustainable Development Challenges

    Growing Global Invention Ecosystems to Solve Our Sustainable Development Challenges

    By Maggie Flanagan, The Lemelson Foundation Program Officer For Global Entrepreneurship Week, millions of people across 170 countries participated in thousands of online events and in-person gatherings to discuss the state-of-the-state of global entrepreneurship, as well as what’s needed to grow entrepreneurial opportunity in the years ahead. One of the key themes for this year’s…

  • Starting Small and Dreaming Big: Profile of Broadcom MASTERS’ 2018 Lemelson Invention Prize Winner

    Starting Small and Dreaming Big: Profile of Broadcom MASTERS’ 2018 Lemelson Invention Prize Winner

    A profile of John Madland, Broadcom MASTERS’ 2018 Lemelson Invention Prize Winner Fifteen-year-old John Madland has always had an inventive curiosity. Growing up, he would ask for broken appliances as birthday gifts so that he could fix them. “I rarely give up on an idea,” he says. “Even if it takes several years to, I’ll…

  • NEST360° Initiative Harnesses Invention to Solve Global Health Challenges

    NEST360° Initiative Harnesses Invention to Solve Global Health Challenges

    The Lemelson Foundation is proud to announce our contribution to the launch of NEST360°, a new multi-organization partnership aimed at making a lasting impact on maternal and newborn health in low-resource settings. Current data shows that around 28 in every 1,000 babies in Sub-Saharan Africa die in the first month of life. The NEST360° initiative…

  • Nearly 2,000 Additional Educators Embrace Invention Education

    Nearly 2,000 Additional Educators Embrace Invention Education

    While September is when the public focuses on going back to school, every teacher knows that the real work happens before that – preparing classrooms, planning lessons and participating in professional development. When it comes to Invention Education, thousands of educators have participated in professional development programs this year with the goal of integrating new…

  • Teachers Who Inspire Students to Invent Can Transform Lives

    Teachers Who Inspire Students to Invent Can Transform Lives

    When teachers present their students with real-world challenges to solve, they show them that they have the power to improve lives in their community and beyond. For National Teacher Appreciation Week, we’re celebrating teachers who are inspiring their students through invention education. Clara Mabour was a student in Oakland Park, Florida, when she met a…

  • Inventing for One Planet

    Inventing for One Planet

    Training engineering students to assess environmental responsibility improves the health of our planet

  • Invention Ambassadors Take on Society’s Challenges

    Invention Ambassadors Take on Society’s Challenges

    Over the past few years, inventor Jason Kang says he has developed his love for the “tangibility” of inventing, while discovering the impact he can have on the lives of others. At age 23, he has been involved in three startup companies and has helped invent an additive for disinfectants to combat life-threatening infectious diseases…

  • Teaching Green Inventing in 2018: Higher Education Workshop Highlights and Strategies for Action

    Teaching Green Inventing in 2018: Higher Education Workshop Highlights and Strategies for Action

    By Cindy Cooper, Program Officer, The Lemelson Foundation A sterile-yet-reusable device that enables providers to offer minimally-invasive biopsies at lower cost . . . Packing materials made from mushroom matter . . . Home insulation made from hemp stalks . . . These are just a few samples of how young inventors have embedded sustainability…

  • VentureWell

    VentureWell

    Cultivating the next generation of inventors and entrepreneurs in higher education to bring innovative products to market for social and environmental impact

  • Immigrant Entrepreneurs Shape America’s Inventive and Economic Future

    Immigrant Entrepreneurs Shape America’s Inventive and Economic Future

    By Carol Dahl On August 21st The Lemelson Foundation joined thousands of organizations in celebrating World Entrepreneurs’ Day, an event designed to raise awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership in our lives. And from November 13-19, we will join 20,000 groups from across 170 nations celebrating Global Entrepeneurship Week. But this year’s…

  • Resource Constraints Demand Smarter Approaches to Invention

    Resource Constraints Demand Smarter Approaches to Invention

    By Carol Dahl, Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation Spring is often a time when we have a heightened awareness of changes taking place in our environment, and last month was no exception. April 22 saw hundreds of thousands assemble in Washington, DC and dozens of other cities nationwide to celebrate Earth Day with a first-ever March…