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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.

  • Targets for Geothermal Innovation Announced

    Targets for Geothermal Innovation Announced

    Designing a Global Geothermal Challenge August 20, 2009 – With the understanding that the possibilities of geothermal technology have not yet been fully realized and the intent of addressing energy security, the Foundation for Geothermal Innovation (FGI) and the Lemelson Foundation have released initial findings defining the technical criteria for a critical new generation of geothermal…

  • RAMP’s Sheep Rearing Innovation featured in New Agriculturist

    RAMP’s Sheep Rearing Innovation featured in New Agriculturist

    Mr Shivakumar, one of the first shepherds to adopt the system, has already seen some encouraging results. An innovation from the RAMP program in India is the focus of an article in July’s issue of the online magazine New Agriculturist.The innovation combines a product with a service for nomadic sheepherders and their flocks in southern India. This…

  • Biomedical Engineer and Graduate Student Geoffrey von Maltzahn Awarded $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

    Biomedical Engineer and Graduate Student Geoffrey von Maltzahn Awarded $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

    Cambridge, Mass.  – When it comes to solving complex problems, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, MIT graduate student and biomedical engineer, looks to nature for solutions. Finding inspiration in systems that evolution has produced, von Maltzahn is currently helping to tackle one of society’s biggest challenges: improving tumor detection and therapeutic delivery in order to boost the…