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The Lemelson-MIT Program’s 5th annual EurekaFest kicks off Wednesday. The four-day event celebrates youth innovators and their role models. When: June 15-18 Where: Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and at the Museum of Science in Boston Among the student teams showcasing their inventions: Omaha North High School, Omaha, Neb. The Omaha North High School InvenTeam [...]
The Lemelson-MIT Program named Dr. Elizabeth Hausler winner of this year’s $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability for engineering earthquake-resistant housing in the developing world. Hausler, CEO and founder of the nonprofit Build Change, designed a reconstruction solution to combat building collapses during natural disasters, potentially saving thousands of lives. A lack of building standards in many developing countries can [...]
NCIIA – Nurturing Campus Innovation By David Orsman You’re an undergraduate and you have a great idea for a company or a design for a new product that your gut tells you will sell. Yet you also have a few conflicting thoughts: Maybe go the relatively safer route and get started on a career. Or [...]
Lemelson-MIT Releases 2011 Invention Index The Lemelson-MIT Program released its 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index survey on youth attitudes toward inventing. The good news is young people ages 16-25 have a high regard for inventors and inventing. The bad news is there are still a lot of misconceptions and stereotypes. Here’s what the index found: Inventors [...]
Lemelson-MIT Prizewinner Leads Fight Against Disease Internationally renowned chemical biologist Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, whose research is applied worldwide in the biopharmaceutical industry,won the prestigious 2010 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize. As a pioneer in the field of biotechnology – not to mention a role model in a field dominated by men – she currently is working on [...]
If you believe fostering a culture of innovation begins with nurturing America’s interest in science, technology, engineering and math – aka STEM – then brace yourself for some good news. According to this year’s Lemelson-MIT Invention Index, an annual survey that gauges Americans’ perceptions about invention and innovation, 77 percent of teens are interested in [...]
