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Kory Murphy: A Legacy Defined by One Play and a Life of Innovation
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Nonprofit Association of Oregon
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Envisioning a Safer Eye Exam
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NSF and Lemelson Foundation Launch Joint Awards Supporting Sustainability in Engineering Education
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NSF and Lemelson Foundation Launch Joint Awards Supporting Sustainability in Engineering Education
The Lemelson Foundation and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the first awards in a joint initiative to fund projects supporting the integration of social and environmental sustainability into engineering curricula. Supported in part by a $3 million, three-year investment from The Lemelson Foundation and aligned with the goals of its Engineering for One Planet…
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Invent Oregon, Oregon’s Innovation Competition, Launches for 2021
The innovation competition is the culmination of the invention pathway, Oregon’s statewide K through capstone entrepreneurial pipeline for economic talent development The Invent Oregon Collegiate Challenge (InventOR), Oregon’s only statewide invention competition hosted by Portland State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship, returns in 2021 for its fifth year of student-pitched inventions and innovations. Held virtually to…
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National Inventors’ Day: Recognizing the Economic Impact of Invention
Three new reports underscore why supporting a robust invention ecosystem is critical for economic resilience and creating the industries of the future. For the last 25 years, The Lemelson Foundation has focused on supporting invention as a catalyst for fueling economies and improving lives. Now, as a new administration is setting its agenda for economic…
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Engineering for One Planet Initiative Launches Website and Curricular Framework
The Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Initiative has launched a website to share information, resources, events and updates with the global engineering education community to help advance the goal of integrating environmental sustainability education in all engineering disciplines. Mobilized by The Lemelson Foundation and VentureWell with collaboration from hundreds of academic, non-profit, and industry leaders,…
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How Adversity Led to a Lifetime of Engineering and Invention
Dr. Rory A. Cooper is a veteran, an athlete and the holder of more than 20 groundbreaking patents in wheelchair and other assistive technology.
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Inventing for Equity: This Technology Makes Voting More Accessible
Dr. Juan Gilbert created the Prime III software voting system as a model for how to make elections more secure — and more inclusive. Growing up in Hamilton, Ohio, Dr. Juan Gilbert’s path toward invention wasn’t laid out for him. “I didn’t have any role model or anything like that,” he says. What he did…
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Director Emeritus of Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center Receives da Vinci Medal from Society for the History of Technology
Dr. Arthur Molella Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Technology Research and Scholarship Dr. Arthur Molella has been awarded the prestigious Leonardo da Vinci Medal by the Society for the History of Technology. Dr. Molella is the founding director of the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’sMore
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Invention Education: Preparing Our Students Today for a Changing Future
U.S. Department of Education STEM Briefing Webinar will provide guidance on integrating innovation and entrepreneurship into curriculum By David Coronado One thing that 2020 has shown us is that our children face a future of new, more demanding and increasingly complex challenges. How do we prepare them not only for the workforce, but for a…
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Lemelson-MIT Master Teacher Awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
Massachusetts high school science teacher Doug Scott – a frequent collaborator with the Foundation and the Lemelson-MIT program on Invention Education – has been awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). Scott accepted the award with fellow teacher Jordan Estock recently at a virtual ceremony hosted by the National Science…
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Supporting Oregon Communities Affected by Wildfires
“Oregon National Guard” by The National Guard The month of September brought a swarm of wildfires causing catastrophic destruction to our beautiful state of Oregon – leveling homes, nearly wiping out whole communities and destroying forests and habitats throughout the state. Many of the communities most significantly impacted were already struggling with the health, economic…
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Grantee Roundup: Invention-Based Enterprises Addressing COVID-19 in Developing Countries
From solar-powered, mobile testing units to imaging technology to identify fevers in crowds Invention is critical to finding new solutions to challenges during a crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how local impact inventors can pivot to address the health and well being of communities in resource-limited settings. In India, with a population of nearly…
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The Lemelson Foundation Awards Grants to Five Universities to Accelerate Environmentally and Socially Conscious Engineering
New Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Initiative draws hundreds of stakeholders from academia, industry, philanthropy, government and nonprofit sectors Portland, OR – The Lemelson Foundation, the world’s leading foundation focused on improving lives through invention, announced the launch of the new Engineering for One Planet (EOP) initiative intended to instill social and environmental principles across…
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MIT and Biogen Launch New Virtual Learning Lab for High School Students Historically Underrepresented in STEM
Online learning program combines lab simulations and mentoring experiences focused on biotechnology and neurological diseases. Cambridge, Mass., May 28, 2020 – Today the Lemelson-MIT Program (LMIT) announced the launch of Biogen-MIT Biotech in Action: Virtual Summer Lab — a new online learning lab for high school students underrepresented in STEM. The collaboration pairs Biogen’s established…