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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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Pushing for an Engineering Revolution
On April 22, 1970, millions of Americans took to the country’s streets, parks, college campuses and classrooms to demand action for a healthier planet. This was the first Earth Day, and it sparked the modern environmental movement. Today, sustainability has become a key touchstone and point of concern across all sectors, from government to industry…
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These Inventor Entrepreneurs Are Solving Global Health Challenges
From better neonatal care to affordable and accessible diagnostics, invention-based businesses are addressing health disparities and spurring economic growth. Whether COVID-19 or pneumonia, blindness or jaundice, many health conditions can be improved or even prevented when people have access to the right care. But according to the United Nations, less than half of the global…
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Microtechnology, Medicine and Mentoring: One Inventor’s Formula for Success
Sangeeta Bhatia is a leader in advancing human health care — and a role model for other women interested in STEM. At her lab at MIT, Sangeeta Bhatia is singlehandedly inspiring a new generation of inventors through a combination of humor and pragmatism. “One thing I like to tell the students, just to set their…
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Meet the Woman Who Forged an Entirely New Scientific Field
Chemical biologist Carolyn Bertozzi is blazing a trail in the way cancer and other diseases may be diagnosed and treated.
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From Nature to New Materials: This MIT Professor’s Inventions Are Rooted in Biology
An abalone shell inspired Angela Belcher to pursue a career in engineering and cancer research. Angela Belcher likes to make things. Her medium of choice? Atoms. “When you take a couple of atoms and you arrange them in different ways and build them into different shapes,” she says, “it changes their properties.” In nature, those…
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2021 Women’s History Month: Three Women Who Are Blazing a Trail in Medicine
To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re spotlighting the groundbreaking accomplishments of three women whose work is helping advance human health care. The good news: The number of women inventors is increasing. The not-as-good news: Only about 17% of inventors worldwide are women, according to a report published by World Intellectual Property Indicators. In the United…
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Meet the Woman Who Forged an Entirely New Scientific Field
Chemical biologist Carolyn Bertozzi is blazing a trail in the way cancer and other diseases may be diagnosed and treated. Picture a peanut M&M, cracked in half. That candy cross section can be a helpful visual for remembering the basic structure of a human cell. The nut of course represents the nucleus at the cell’s…
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From Nature to New Materials: This MIT Professor’s Inventions Are Rooted in Biology
An abalone shell inspired Angela Belcher to pursue a career in engineering and cancer research. The notion that nature is full of inspiration is at the heart of Angela Belcher’s work — and it’s what set her own career in motion. A prizewinning inventor, including the 2013 Lemelson-MIT Prize, and MIT’s James Mason Crafts Professor ofMore
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Microtechnology, Medicine and Mentoring: One Inventor’s Formula for Success
Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia is a leader in advancing human health care — and a role model for other women interested in STEM. Born near Boston, Massachusetts, to parents who immigrated to the United States from India, Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia is an MIT professor, a physician, a bioengineer, an entrepreneur and a patent-holding inventor. She is…
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Dorothy Ginsberg Lemelson 1926–2021
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dorothy (Dolly) Lemelson, the Foundation’s co-founder and wife of Jerome Lemelson. Dolly passed away peacefully on March 10th surrounded by her loving family. Dorothy Ginsberg was born on May 11, 1926, in Perth Amboy New Jersey, to Louis Ginsberg, a self-employed glazier, and Lena,…
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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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Engineer and Children’s Author Arlyne Simon Breaking Barriers for Female Patent Holders
Simon describes her own invention journey and how she works to inspire other young women and girls to enter STEM fields. At first, biomedical engineer, inventor, and author Arlyne Simon didn’t consider the possibility of becoming an entrepreneur or patent holder. “I don’t think I really associated those terms with something that I would have,…