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Engineering Team from Johns Hopkins University receives $10,000 and mentorship from experts at The Lemelson Foundation Can a pen that costs half a penny save a life? The answer is yes. ABC News and the Duke Global Health Institute are pleased to announce the winners of the Be the Change: Save a Life Maternal Health Challenge .…

AMBRIDGE, Mass – The Lemelson-MIT Program today announced Dr. Elizabeth Hausler as the recipient of the 2011 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability in recognition of her engineering accomplishments and creation of a model that establishes sustainable earthquake-resistant housing in the developing world. Hausler, CEO and Founder of Build Change, shaped a reconstruction solution to combat building collapses during natural disasters, which…

Foundation grantee Solar Ear was recently recognized as one of the Brazil’s “10 Most Innovative Companies” by Fast Company for “making hearing aids affordable.” As you may recall, Solar Ear has developed the world’s first digital solar-powered rechargeable hearing aid, which costs a fifth the price of standard equipment. The Sao Paulo-based not-for-profit, whose employees are all…

Cambridge, Mass.– Alice A. Chen, a biomedical engineer and graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology (HST) and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), today received the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for her innovative applications of microtechnology to study human health and disease. A fearless problem solver with a passion…

On January 31, Fast Company’s blog featured an article on female entrepreneurship and inventiveness, using the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index as a springboard for a larger story that focused on a couple of former NCIIA E-Teams – Solar Ivy and the DayOne Waterbag – that were commercializing products to improve lives. The post also featured an interview…

Yesterday, President Obama announced the launch of the Startup America initiative, a partnership of 20 organizations dedicated to increasing U.S. competitiveness. As part of this, our grantee the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) will award nearly one million dollars in grants to 23 universities in 14 states over the next two months. The…

Our friends at the Lemelson-MIT Program have released their annual Invention Index which shows the untapped group of potential inventors in the U.S. The 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index1, announced today, indicates that American women ages 16 – 25 possess many characteristics necessary to become inventors, such as creativity, interest in science and math, desire to develop altruistic…

Last week, Foundation grantee Living Goods was profiled by FastCompany.com. “How Health Care Nonprofit Living Goods Learned a Lesson From Avon Ladies” chronicles the founding of the East African health services pioneer and their unique model of community health supporters. Read the full article here: http://www.fastcompany.com/1709280/how-healthcare-nonprofit-living-goods-learned-a-lesson-from-avon-ladies About Living Goods Living Goods is an Avon-like network of…

The Foundation and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance were featured today in an article entitled, “The Lemelson Foundation: Tinkerers Saving the World,”on FastCompany.com. Written by Fast Company Expert Blogger Alice Korngold, the article explores how companies emerge from university environments and features information about three exciting NCIIA projects – OsmoPure, OneBreath and Solar Ivy…

Cambridge, Mass.,— Today, two Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams were among more than a dozen teams from around the country that presented their winning work at a White House Science Fair. The fair celebrates the winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competitions, including students from the Cesar Chavez High School InvenTeam in Laveen, Arizona and…

Portland, OR and New York, NY– The Lemelson Foundation this week announced three commitments during the Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York City, pledging a total of $4.5 million to Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers, the Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT) and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). The Lemelson Foundation, which…