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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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Foundation Senior Program Officer Joel Clement discusses climate and scientific censorship
Before joining The Lemelson Foundation to lead its new Climate Action Initiative, Senior Program Officer Joel Clement was a forest ecologist, an official at the U.S. Department of the Interior, and in 2017, a whistleblower. He recently spoke to NPR about his experiences in the federal government helping communities in Alaska prepare for the effects…
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Escaping the Ordinary in the Classroom
Grant Kightlinger and Molly Grace, co-creators of the “FairPlay Challenge.” This innovative education curriculum uses an escape room model to engage students in important life lessons. Many of us have had that experience in school of feeling trapped in a boring lesson about a topic that didn’t seem to have any relevance to our lives.…
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Rocky Mountain Institute
The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an independent nonprofit working to accelerate the clean energy transition and ensure a zero-carbon future for all. It seeks to scale transformative change in the global energy system by reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2030.
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Action for the Climate Emergency
Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE) is a nonprofit mobilizing young individuals to take action against the climate crisis.
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Making Engineering Elementary
Students engineering windmills that harness the wind’s energy. (Credit: Youth Engineering Solutions, Museum of Science, Boston) How a model for equity-oriented engineering curriculum is engaging students from all backgrounds and in the earliest grades Engineers are crucial to building our future. And to harness the best solutions for tomorrow’s social and environmental challenges, we need…
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Environmental Defense Fund
The Environmental Defense Fund is an environmental advocacy nonprofit guided by science and economics, committed to climate justice, and driven to deliver solutions that will create a healthier planet for all.
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Transforming the Game with Invention
Shawn Springs, CEO of Windpact. This former athlete turned entrepreneur and inventor is creating new sports technology to improve player safety. Who can be an inventor? A dynamic new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation is posing that question through a unique lens, andMore
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Recharging the Electric Vehicle Industry
Siblings Steven (left) and Zora Chung (right) co-founded technology company ReJoule. This sustainable startup is building a circular economy for EV batteries from the ground up How do you make a critically important sustainable industry even more sustainable? For electric vehicles, one of the challenges is the sustainable source itself — the lithium-ion battery. Although…
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Paving the Way to Sustainability
Removing roadblocks for low-carbon building materials can spur innovation and lower greenhouse gas emissions By Rafae Ghani, Policy Advisor, ClearPath; Tess Moran, Industrial Policy Analyst, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions; Mallory Shaevsky, Government Affairs Associate, ClearPath; Emily Tucker, Senior Federal Policy Manager,
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The Smithsonian Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
Documenting the history of invention and inspiring visitors through hands-on, experiential activities about the invention process
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Invent Oregon
Nurturing innovation through empowering collegiate inventors and entrepreneurs in Oregon
