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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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Immigrant Entrepreneurs Shape America’s Inventive and Economic Future
By Carol Dahl On August 21st The Lemelson Foundation joined thousands of organizations in celebrating World Entrepreneurs’ Day, an event designed to raise awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership in our lives. And from November 13-19, we will join 20,000 groups from across 170 nations celebrating Global Entrepeneurship Week. But this year’s…
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Resource Constraints Demand Smarter Approaches to Invention
By Carol Dahl, Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation Spring is often a time when we have a heightened awareness of changes taking place in our environment, and last month was no exception. April 22 saw hundreds of thousands assemble in Washington, DC and dozens of other cities nationwide to celebrate Earth Day with a first-ever March…
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Cindy Cooper Joins The Lemelson Foundation to Advance Opportunities for Collegiate Inventors and Young Entrepreneurs
Foundation Adds to Expertise for Collegiate Inventors and Young Entrepreneurs
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A Conversation with Ramesh Raskar
In September 2016, Dr. Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab and holder of more than 75 patents, was awarded the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for his work in developing radical imaging solutions. The Wall Street Journal called Raskar’s inventions “trailblazing,” citing a growing resume that includes the co-invention of an ultra-fast imaging…
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SiNode Systems Wins Sustainable Practice Impact Award for Creating Batteries that Last Longer and Charge Faster
Washington, DC – Chicago-based company SiNode Systems has won this year’s Sustainable Practice Impact Award to honor a company that develops clean technologies, implements sustainable practices, or provides exceptional educational opportunities to university students. The award will be presented during a luncheon on Saturday, March 25th in Washington, DC as part of VentureWell’s annual Open conference. SiNode Systems is being honored for their silicon…
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Nathan Deng, 2017 Broadcom MASTERS Lemelson Prize for Invention Winner
How many times have you stood at your sink, elbow deep in water scrubbing a pile of dirty dishes, and thought, “I wonder how soap works?” If you are like most people, you never have.
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The Lemelson Foundation Expands Its Expertise with New Communications Officer and Advisory Committee Member
Portland, OR – The Lemelson Foundation, the world’s leading funder of invention in service of social and economic change, today announced that it has added Juliana Rotich to its Advisory Committee and hired Pam Kahl as communications officer. These two additions mark expansion of the Foundation’s strategic leadership. Rotich, the co-founder and executive director of…
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High School Teams Awarded Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam™ Grants for Invention Projects
15 Student Teams Nationwide Set Sights on Inventing Solutions to Real-World Problems The Lemelson-MIT Program today introduced the 2016– 2017 InvenTeams, 15 teams of high school students nationwide, each receiving up to $10,000 in grant funding to solve real-world problems through invention. The InvenTeam initiative, now in its 14th year, inspires youth to invent utilizing hands-on,…
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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…