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NSF Awards $10 Million Grant to Stanford University to Launch National Center to Educate Entrepreneurial Engineers Next generation of engineers will combine innovation and entrepreneurial know-how with technical skills to power the nation’s growth The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to launch a national center for teaching innovation and entrepreneurship [...]
The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) announced the launch of the Global Innovation Initiative (GII), a program designed to support Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) educators and students in solving the problems of global poverty in environmentally and economically sustainable ways. Focusing especially on STEM Education, the NCIIA and its partners seek [...]
. ‘Social Media Done Right’ Inventors Digest earned the top prize in Media Industry News Online’s national Integrated Marketing Award competition in the Print/Video category. Winners were announced at a ceremony in New York City this morning. Inventors Digest and partner the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, along with Elise Communications, bested far-better financed [...]
Our friends at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance and partner Olympus, is calling for nominations for the seventh annual Olympus Innovation Awards Program. The program recognizes those who have fostered or demonstrated innovative thinking in education. Students, faculty and others at NCIIA institutions of higher learning in the U.S. can review qualification guidelines [...]
A team from Johns Hopkins University recently earned first place and $10,000 in the sixth annual Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship competition. The team’s Rapid Hypothermia Induction Device lets emergency or ambulance personnel quickly and safely administer a therapeutic hypothermia treatment to patients and improve their chances of survival. The BMEidea competition is open to member [...]
Inventors Digest joins the ranks of Time, Wired and The Economist as a finalist for a national Integrated Marketing Award from media trade group min Online. The min awards “salute the campaigns, ongoing programs and innovative people who’ve raised the bar on magazine marketing programs.” Inventors Digest is being recognized in the Print/Video category for [...]
There’s a lot of stuff happening for National Inventors Month. Inventors Digest, along with sponsor LegalZoom, has extended the deadline for U.S. college students to submit entries for the 2010 Collegiate Alt-Energy Challenge. The Challenge, which builds on a previous initiative with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, is accepting 2-minute Web video “elevator [...]
The votes have been tallied and the results are in – three college student teams will vie for a shot at $800 at the 2010 March Madness for the Mind exhibition in San Francisco this Saturday. Inventors Digest hosted more than a dozen student videos in partnership with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, [...]
Five Questions With … Humera Fasihuddin is director of the Invention to Venture program at the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance. She works with high-potential student teams to help them secure funding. She also runs the NCIIA’s I2V workshops, which teach basic and advanced entrepreneurship, and manages BMEidea, a national student competition in biomedical [...]
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