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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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Jerome Lemelson among Inc. Magazine’s “11 Historic Serial Entrepreneurs”
Our founder, Jerome Lemelson, was recognized by Inc. Magazine’s online site in late June in a photo slideshow “11 Historic Serial Entrepreneurs,” listed among other visionaries including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Ted Turner, Richard Branson, and Oprah Winfrey.
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Carol Dahl to join Foundation as Executive Director, effective July 25
The Lemelson Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Carol A. Dahl will join our staff as Executive Director as of July 25. With experience working for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation first as Director of the Global Health Discovery team and more recently as Director of Staff for the Global Health Program, Dahl brings to…
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Announcing our Spring 2011 Grants
More than $4 million in grants will help fund six organizations that use invention to solve social issues around the globe. Portland, OR—The Lemelson Foundation, an organization that believes invention is critical to solving the world’s most challenging problems, today announced it is pledging more than $4 million across six partners that create and advance…
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ABC News and Duke Global Health Institute announce Maternal Health “Be The Change: Save A Life”Challenge student winners
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 .…
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$100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability Awarded to Dr. Elizabeth Hausler
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…
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Solar Ear Recognized as an Innovative Company
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…
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Harvard/MIT Student Inventor Alice A. Chen Receives $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
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…
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ABC News, Duke Global Health Institute Announce Maternal Health Challenge for University Students Worldwide
Competition aimed at designing life-saving solutions, supported by The Lemelson Foundation Around the world, 350,000 women continue to die each year of complications due to childbirth. In the vast majority of cases, women are dying of preventable causes: severe bleeding, infection, obstructed labor and a host of other problems that can be averted with skilled…
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Fast Company features Foundation, NCIIA and L-MIT efforts to encourage women inventors
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…
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NCIIA joins White House Startup America Initiative
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…
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The Lemelson-MIT Program releases it’s 2011 Invention Index
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…
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Foundation grantee Living Goods profiled on FastCompany
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…