The Lemelson Foundation and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the first awards in a joint initiative to fund projects supporting the integration of social and environmental sustainability into engineering curricula. Supported in part by a $3 million, three-year investment from The Lemelson Foundation and aligned with the goals of its Engineering for One Planet…
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum today announced the publication of the white paper Design and Social Impact: A cross-sectoral agenda for design education, research and practice, along with a panel discussion on the paper’s findings and proposals to be held Feb. 21 in New York. The paper is an outgrowth of the 2012 Social Impact…
Ottawa, ON— Today at the Grand Challenges meeting in Ottawa, Canada, Wendy Taylor, Director, Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Carol Dahl, Executive Director of The Lemelson Foundation, announced a partnership between USAID and The Lemelson Foundation to award more than $700,000 to the National Collegiate…
In the September 26 issue of the New York Times, several projects supported through the our partners at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators’ Alliance (NCIIA) were highlighted in a special section on low-cost innovations that can save thousands of lives. Two were featured in the print edition of the newspaper, with three additional projects featured. NCIIA…
Exciting news from one of our board members, Dr. Robert Lemelson. A professor of Anthropology at UCLA, Dr. Lemelson – who serves as co-vice president and secretary on our Board of Directors – has created the Lemelson Anthropological Fellows/Scholars Program at UCLA to link faculty and students creating opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to conduct…
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…
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…
Congrats to Greenlight Planet – which started a few years ago as a National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) E-Team from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign – for winning the “Solar For All” Design Contest. The contest, supported by Canopus Foundation and Ashoka, recognizes some of the world’s most innovative technical solutions for providing sustainable and reliable energy…