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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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Fighting Wildfires Through Invention
A close encounter with a California wildfire inspired 16-year old Prisha Shroff to design a system to mitigate devastating blazes in the future. When she was 13 years old, Prisha Shroff saw something that made her want to change the world. She was in the car with her family, driving from Los Angeles to their…
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This Invention Helps Open the Door to Accessibility
A pattern-sensing doormat was inspired by eighth grader Jeanelle Dao’s family history with hand disability. An eighth grader at Stratford San Jose Middle School in California, Jeanelle Dao is unlocking a solution to a problem that she learned about through her grandfather. He had arthritis in his hands, which made opening doors with a key…
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Request for Proposals: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Consultant for Oregon’s Regional Innovation Hubs
Overview Business Oregon and the Lemelson Foundation have partnered, along with a seven-person Advisory Committee, to hire a consultant (funded by the Lemelson Foundation) to provide diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) consultancy services to support Oregon’s Regional Innovation Hub (Hubs), described below. The consultancy will have three phases and last about 16 months. The…
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How to Integrate Sustainability Into College Engineering Curricula
A pilot program across five U.S.-based higher education institutions is shedding light on successful steps toward systems change. Engineering is one of the most fundamental contributors to human health and prosperity. From consumer goods to hardware and software products to buildings and modes of transportation, the solutions that engineers create are core to nearly every…
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From STEM to Spotify: How an After-School Invention Program Helped Launch a Career in Big Tech
After moving from Vietnam to the U.S. in fourth grade, Spotify engineer Thien Nguyen discovered his love for math, as well as a supportive community, through his new school’s MESA program. Engineer Thien Nguyen discovered his facility for numbers and a supportive community through Invention Education. Thien Nguyen was born in Vietnam and lived there…
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How an After-School Invention Program Helped Launch a Career in Big Tech
Through Oregon MESA, engineer Thien Nguyen discovered his facility for numbers and a supportive community. Thien Nguyen was born in Vietnam and lived there until fourth grade, when his family immigrated to the United States. At the time Thien spoke no English, yet as he adjusted to his new surroundings in Portland, Oregon, he quickly…
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Request for Applicants: Engineering for One Planet Network Manager Position
The Lemelson Foundation is seeking to hire an experienced network manager as a contractor/consultant to coordinate, connect, and mobilize the Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Network’s activities, and to support collaboration among members from a diversity of backgrounds, professional sectors, and lived experiences. Cover letter, budget/fees, CV/resume, and any questions about the position should be…
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This College Inventor Is Making Medicine More Equitable
University of Iowa sophomore Dasia Taylor has created low-cost, infection-sensing stitches. Inventor Dasia Taylor is one of those people who seems destined to change the world. At just 14 years old, she was consulting at Harvard on the topic of equity. Now 19, Dasia is in the process of patenting her first medical device —…
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Meet the College Inventor Who Is Making Medicine More Equitable
Inventor Dasia Taylor is one of those people who seems destined to change the world. At just 14 years old, she was consulting at Harvard on the topic of equity. Now 19, Dasia is in the process of patenting her first medical device — low-cost sutures that switch color if an infection has occurred, an…
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This Georgia Classroom Runs on Invention Education
Audrey Cristelli and her advanced learning teacher, Lisa Rogers, at Audrey’s 5th grade graduation. At Smyrna Elementary School near Atlanta, prizewinning student inventor Audrey Cristelli learned from educator Lisa Rogers how to think outside the box. Audrey Cristelli was just 10 years old when she had the idea — what if there was a gamified…
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This Georgia Classroom Runs on Invention Education
At Smyrna Elementary School near Atlanta, prizewinning student inventor Audrey Cristelli learned from educator Lisa Rogers how to think outside the box. Audrey Cristelli was just 10 years old when she had the idea — what if there was a gamified sustainability app to help people who want to get more involved with litter cleanup?…
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ASME ISHOW USA Announces 2022 Winners
Entrepreneurs from the U.S. and Perú earn places in annual ASME ISHOW USA cohort with accessible clean energy and water innovations. The ASME Innovation Showcase (ISHOW) announced its 2022 winners: GenH, LivingWaters Systems, and Wayru Perú. GenH’s “Adaptive Hydro” solution is a rapidly deployable, modular hydropower system designedMore