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  • Envisioning a Safer Eye Exam

    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…

  • This College Student Can Convert Your Gas-Guzzler Into a Zero-Carbon Ride

    This College Student Can Convert Your Gas-Guzzler Into a Zero-Carbon Ride

    (Pictured above from left to right: Sean Krivonogoff, Blake Turner, and Mel Turner pose on Blake’s 1963 Chevrolet Corvair) By creating a low-cost hydrogen conversion kit, inventor Blake Turner hopes to make owning an eco-friendly car more affordable. A 1963 Chevrolet Corvair might be stylish, but it doesn’t exactly say environmental sustainability. Unless Portland, Oregon…

  • During a Health Crisis, Look for the Inventors

    During a Health Crisis, Look for the Inventors

    It was a deadly pathogen that turned Jason Kang and his friends into inventors. But it’s not the one you’re thinking of. In 2014, Ebola was ravaging West Africa. Kang was a junior at Columbia University at the time. Like many other people, he wanted to help but felt there was little he could do.…

  • During a Health Crisis, Look for the Inventors

    During a Health Crisis, Look for the Inventors

    UPDATE: Since this article’s publication, the Highlight product has been named one of the Best Infection Prevention Products by Newsweek. Catastrophe can be a powerful catalyst for invention. It was a deadly pathogen that turned Jason Kang and his friends into inventors. But it’s not the one you’re thinking of. In 2014, Ebola wasMore

  • Invention Roundup: Inventors Rally in Response to a Health Crisis

    Invention Roundup: Inventors Rally in Response to a Health Crisis

    New products and devices address COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic is igniting a flurry of invention to address urgent issues of prevention and detection and treatment. From multiple efforts to address the need for ventilators to open-source face shields to drones that can detect potential respiratory infection, university researchers, engineers and private entrepreneurs have stepped…

  • Invention Roundup: Inventors Rally in Response to a Health Crisis

    Invention Roundup: Inventors Rally in Response to a Health Crisis

    New products and devices address COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic is igniting a flurry of invention to address urgent issues of prevention and detection and treatment. From multiple efforts to address the need for ventilators to open-source face shields to drones that can detect potential respiratory infection, university researchers, engineers and private entrepreneurs have stepped…

  • Inventing a Better Insect Trap

    Inventing a Better Insect Trap

    How One Pennsylvania Teen Found Inspiration in Her Own Backyard How do you quash an insect invasion that threatens your favorite trees? For fourteen-year old Rachel Bergey of Harleysville, Pennsylvania, the answer involves inventing a new product out of garden netting and aluminum foil, and one key strategy: outsmarting the enemy. The spotted lanternfly is…

  • Brian Doran Joins The Lemelson Foundation to Direct Financial and Administrative Operations

    Brian Doran Joins The Lemelson Foundation to Direct Financial and Administrative Operations

    Portland, OR – The Lemelson Foundation, the world’s leading foundation solely focused on improving lives through invention through social, environmental and economic impact, has hired Brian Doran to serve as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer (CFAO). The CFAO plays a key role driving the Foundation’s overall success toward achieving its mission to support the next…

  • The Case for Invention Education

    The Case for Invention Education

    How Empathy in STEM Can Transform Learning for Students and Teachers UPDATE: In August 2020, Doug Scott was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching Picture a group of high school students on a frozen pond in Massachusetts, their eyes trained intently on a moving object. No, it’s not a hockey puck. It’s…

  • Are Robots Really Coming For Our Jobs?

    Are Robots Really Coming For Our Jobs?

    What We’ve Learned From Previous Industrial Revolutions A fourth industrial revolution? According to a loose coalition of economists, techno-enthusiasts, and other analysts, we are in the early stages of a fourth revolutionary moment, during which innovations in technology bring about major changes to the production of goods and services, and significantly impact employment. The first…

  • Going Beyond the Horizon

    Going Beyond the Horizon

    Jim West has been at the forefront of acoustic science for nearly six decades. From his childhood in the segregated South to his recent work on an advanced digital stethoscope, West has always looked for “what exists beyond the horizon.” This article was originally published on USPTO.gov on November 2019. Each month, their Journeys of Innovation…

  • Celebrating 25 Years of The Lemelson Foundation

    Celebrating 25 Years of The Lemelson Foundation

    This year, the Lemelson Foundation is celebrating its 25th Anniversary of giving, and supporting invention and inventors to improve lives around the world. Jerome and Dolly’s vision is as important today as it’s ever been — to cultivate future generations of new and diverse inventors who have lasting and transformative impact in the world. Today,…

  • Inventing for Impact

    Inventing for Impact

    Why a Diverse Invention Ecosystem Is Crucial for Solving the World’s Biggest Problems Today is Edison’s birthday, which President Reagan designated “National Inventors’ Day.” Indeed, inventors have been recognized as essential to our country’s success since the days of our Founders, when George Washington urged the first Congress to set up the patent system. In…