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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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Imaging Scientist and social impact inventor Ramesh Raskar awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
Cambridge, Mass – Ramesh Raskar, founder of the Camera Culture research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and associate professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, is the recipient of the 2016 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize. Raskar is the co-inventor of radical imaging solutions including Femto-photography, an ultra-fast imaging camera that can see…
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PBS NewsHour Features Foundation-Grantee VentureWell and Young Inventors
PBS Newshour recently produced a segment on The Lemelson Foundation’s long-time grantee VentureWell and their efforts to advance the work of young inventor entrepreneurs. The PBS segment highlighted the work of several E-Teams, and dug deep into the efforts of Kinnos, a team from Columbia University that’s improving infectious disease decontamination to save the lives…
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AAAS and The Lemelson Foundation Announce the 2016-2017 Class of Invention Ambassadors
Washington, DC – First piloted in 2013, The AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors Program has served as a platform for inventors to demonstrate their role as change agents in society and as problem solvers. Since its inception, there have been two classes and 14 Ambassadors selected that meet the program’s’ vision to “showcase the human face of…
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Lemelson-MIT Program appoints Stephanie Couch as executive director
Couch to build upon program’s 20-year success in celebrating invention and inspiring youth to invent Cambridge, Mass – The Lemelson-MIT Program today announced the hire of Dr. Stephanie Couch as executive director of the Lemelson-MIT Program. Couch brings 16 years of experience in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education policy, research, development and deployment and…
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Portland Students to compete in 16th annual Oregan MESA Day event
The Lemelson Foundation, Intel Sponsor Middle and High School Engineering and Science Competition Portland, OR – More than 350 young inventors from five school districts in Portland Metro and Salem will show their mettle as prospective future engineers, inventors, and scientists during the Oregon MESA Day Middle and High School Engineering and Science competition. The one-day event…
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The Lemelson Foundation welcomes three new advisory committee members
Portland, OR – The Lemelson Foundation, the world’s leading funder of invention in service of social and economic change, today announced it will add three new members to its Advisory Committee. The new advisors are: Mir Imran, the founder of InCube Labs and a respected healthcare entrepreneur and inventor; Kara Miller, the host and executive…
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The Burt Swersey Inventor’s Studio established at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer receives $500,000 gift from The Lemelson Foundation to honor and memorialize legendary teacher and mentor with state-of-the-art studio for student inventors and entrepreneurs Troy, MI – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) President Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D., has announced that the Institute has received a significant gift from The Lemelson Foundation to establish the Burt Swersey Inventor’s Studio,…
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Collegiate inventors awarded Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Students recognized for inventive solutions to challenges in health care, transportation, food and agriculture, and consumer devices Cambridge, Mass – The Lemelson-MIT Program today announced the winners of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, a nationwide search for the most inventive college students. The Lemelson-MIT Program awarded $90,000 in prizes to collegiate inventors. Each winning team of undergraduates received $10,000,…
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Announcing Menterra social impact fund 1
By Aditi Seshadri | aditi@menterra.com | +91-9867552332 New Rs 40 crore impact investment fund for early-stage social enterprises working in education, health, agri, energy in India; up to Rs 4 crore funding per startup Bangalore, India – Menterra Venture Advisors announced the launch of the Menterra Social Impact Fund I, at an exclusive event for…
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Lemelson-MIT Program expands invention education opportunities to middle and high school students
Free Invention Activity Guides Available to Educators Nationwide to Bring Hands-on Learning to the Classroom Cambridge, Mass – The Lemelson–MIT Program announced today the expansion of the Junior Varsity (JV) InvenTeam™ initiative, adding California to its geographic line up of student teams in Massachusetts, Oregon and Texas. The initiative launched in 2014 and equips educators with invention-based…
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Students should be forging paths, not following them
Before winter break, I had the privilege to sit in on a new class at that was launched by TIE Oregon as part of the TIE Young Entrepreneurs program. The course teaches the principles of invention and entrepreneurship by guiding the students through real-world problem identification, brainstorming and prototyping solutions, and planning businessesMore
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The Society for Science and the Public receives funding for article series on innovation
Washington, DC – Society for Science & the Public received a $94,928 grant from The Lemelson Foundation to expand innovation and invention initiatives aimed primarily at middle school students. This funding will support the development of an 18-article series, published in Science News for Students (SNS), each year from 2016 through 2018. Focusing on innovation and invention,…