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Kory Murphy: A Legacy Defined by One Play and a Life of Innovation
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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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Envisioning a Safer Eye Exam
This young inventor created a synthetic model eye to help medical students train for optical procedures. With more than two million working parts, the eye is considered the second most complex human organ after the brain. So how can medical students train for treating such a complicated and sensitive part of the body? That’s the…
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The Lemelson Center’s Spark!Lab
Spark!Lab reveals the real story behind inventors’ work through hands-on activities that help kids and families learn about the history and process of invention. Opened by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on November 21, 2008, Spark!Lab welcomed more than 600,000 visitors, introduced…
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2013 Lemelson-MIT Prize winner borrows ideas from nature to tackle key societal challenges; awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize for work
Cambridge, Mass – Dr. Angela Belcher, a materials chemist and one of the world’s leading scientists in nanotechnology, was announced today as the recipient of the 2013 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize. Belcher has drawn inspiration from nature and its ability to create materials. She believes that if organic and inorganic materials can combine in nature to produce exquisite…
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Lemelson-MIT Program honors inventors bringing life-saving health solutions to the developing world
Our partners at the Lemelson-MIT Program today announced Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden as the joint recipients of the 2013 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation in recognition of their work in developing inventions — in collaboration with their university students at Rice University — that improve access to health innovations for the world’s poorest communities. Drs. Richards-Kortum and…
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Cooper-Hewitt announced publication of white paper on social responsible design, supported by The Lemelson Foundation
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum today announced the publication of the white paper Design and Social Impact: A cross-sectoral agenda for design education, research and practice, along with a panel discussion on the paper’s findings and proposals to be held Feb. 21 in New York. The paper is an outgrowth of the 2012 Social Impact…
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USAID/The Lemelson foundation partnership award NCIIA to help translate innovations to impact
Ottawa, ON— Today at the Grand Challenges meeting in Ottawa, Canada, Wendy Taylor, Director, Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Carol Dahl, Executive Director of The Lemelson Foundation, announced a partnership between USAID and The Lemelson Foundation to award more than $700,000 to the National Collegiate…
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The Lemelson Foundation announces $24 million to inspire and educate the next generation of inventors
Portland, OR—Today, The Lemelson Foundation announced it is awarding more than $24 million to two organizations in order to inspire and educate the next generation of inventors with the knowledge and skills necessary to transform their ideas into inventions and those inventions into enterprises that improve lives and stimulate the economy. The Lemelson-MIT Program, at the…
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Dr. Stephen Quake wins the 2012 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
Congratulations to prolific inventor Dr. Stephen Quake, recipient of the 2012 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize. An adventurer at heart, Quake relishes in the adrenaline that comes from mountain biking and ski mountaineering. It is that same rush he gets from exploring the unknown that drives him to consistently push scientific limits. Quake is being recognized for his…
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Dr. Ashok Gadgil wins 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation
Congratulations to Dr. Ashok Gadgil, recipient of the 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation in recognition of his steady pursuit to blend research, invention, and humanitarianism for broad social impact. Gadgil is a chair professor of Safe Water and Sanitation at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence…
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Sixteen student teams selected as 2011-2012 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams
In this age where kids dream of growing up to become rock stars or athletes it’s even more important than ever to inspire the next generation to become inventors, problem solvers, scientists and engineers. These are the youth that will help develop solutions that will improve lives, establish new and exciting products and companies, and…
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NCIIA E-Teams featured in New York Times’ ‘Small Fixes’
In the September 26 issue of the New York Times, several projects supported through the our partners at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators’ Alliance (NCIIA) were highlighted in a special section on low-cost innovations that can save thousands of lives. Two were featured in the print edition of the newspaper, with three additional projects featured. NCIIA…
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2011 Ramon Magsaysay Award recipients include two partners
Congratulations to two Foundation partners awarded in late July the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award, often referred to as the “Asian Nobel Prize.” Harish Hande, founder and managing director of Foundation-partner SELCO India, who was honored by Magsaysay for “his passionate and pragmatic efforts to put solar power technology in the hands of the poor … [bringing] customized,…
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Foundation board member starts new UCLA anthropological program
Exciting news from one of our board members, Dr. Robert Lemelson. A professor of Anthropology at UCLA, Dr. Lemelson – who serves as co-vice president and secretary on our Board of Directors – has created the Lemelson Anthropological Fellows/Scholars Program at UCLA to link faculty and students creating opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to conduct…