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  • Winners of the Global Cooling Prize Announced

    Winners of the Global Cooling Prize Announced

    Their prototypes have five times less climate impact than standard air conditioning units available in the market today. The Global Cooling Prize, an international innovation competition to develop super-efficient and climate-friendly residential cooling solutions, announced its two winners: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai, with partner Tsinghua University; and Daikin, with partner Nikken Sekkei Ltd.More

  • 2021 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winners Announced

    2021 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winners Announced

    This World IP Day, we celebrate collegiate student inventors recognized for ground-breaking, patentable solutions to issues related to maternal health, energy efficiency and plastic waste. Cambridge, MA – April 26, 2021 – Following a year that demonstrated the importance and practical applications of scientific advancement and invention, the Lemelson-MIT Program announced seven winners of its annual…

  • Pushing for an Engineering Revolution

    Pushing for an Engineering Revolution

    On April 22, 1970, millions of Americans took to the country’s streets, parks, college campuses and classrooms to demand action for a healthier planet. This was the first Earth Day, and it sparked the modern environmental movement. Today, sustainability has become a key touchstone and point of concern across all sectors, from government to industry…

  • Invent Oregon, Oregon’s Innovation Competition, Launches for 2021

    Invent Oregon, Oregon’s Innovation Competition, Launches for 2021

    The innovation competition is the culmination of the invention pathway, Oregon’s statewide K through capstone entrepreneurial pipeline for economic talent development The Invent Oregon Collegiate Challenge (InventOR), Oregon’s only statewide invention competition hosted by Portland State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship, returns in 2021 for its fifth year of student-pitched inventions and innovations. Held virtually to…

  • National Inventors’ Day: Recognizing the Economic Impact of Invention

    National Inventors’ Day: Recognizing the Economic Impact of Invention

    Three new reports underscore why supporting a robust invention ecosystem is critical for economic resilience and creating the industries of the future. For the last 25 years, The Lemelson Foundation has focused on supporting invention as a catalyst for fueling economies and improving lives. Now, as a new administration is setting its agenda for economic…

  • Engineering for One Planet Initiative Launches Website and Curricular Framework

    Engineering for One Planet Initiative Launches Website and Curricular Framework

    The Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Initiative has launched a website to share information, resources, events and updates with the global engineering education community to help advance the goal of integrating environmental sustainability education in all engineering disciplines. Mobilized by The Lemelson Foundation and VentureWell with collaboration from hundreds of academic, non-profit, and industry leaders,…

  • How Adversity Led to a Lifetime of Engineering and Invention

    How Adversity Led to a Lifetime of Engineering and Invention

    Dr. Rory A. Cooper is a veteran, an athlete and the holder of more than 20 groundbreaking patents in wheelchair and other assistive technology.

  • Inventing for Equity: This Technology Makes Voting More Accessible

    Inventing for Equity: This Technology Makes Voting More Accessible

    Dr. Juan Gilbert created the Prime III software voting system as a model for how to make elections more secure — and more inclusive. Growing up in Hamilton, Ohio, Dr. Juan Gilbert’s path toward invention wasn’t laid out for him. “I didn’t have any role model or anything like that,” he says. What he did…

  • Director Emeritus of Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center Receives da Vinci Medal from Society for the History of Technology

    Director Emeritus of Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center Receives da Vinci Medal from Society for the History of Technology

    Dr. Arthur Molella Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Technology Research and Scholarship Dr. Arthur Molella has been awarded the prestigious Leonardo da Vinci Medal by the Society for the History of Technology. Dr. Molella is the founding director of the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’sMore

  • Invention Education: Preparing Our Students Today for a Changing Future

    Invention Education: Preparing Our Students Today for a Changing Future

    U.S. Department of Education STEM Briefing Webinar will provide guidance on integrating innovation and entrepreneurship into curriculum By David Coronado One thing that 2020 has shown us is that our children face a future of new, more demanding and increasingly complex challenges. How do we prepare them not only for the workforce, but for a…

  • Lemelson-MIT Master Teacher Awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching

    Lemelson-MIT Master Teacher Awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching

    Massachusetts high school science teacher Doug Scott – a frequent collaborator with the Foundation and the Lemelson-MIT program on Invention Education – has been awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). Scott accepted the award with fellow teacher Jordan Estock recently at a virtual ceremony hosted by the National Science…

  • Supporting Oregon Communities Affected by Wildfires

    Supporting Oregon Communities Affected by Wildfires

    “Oregon National Guard” by The National Guard The month of September brought a swarm of wildfires causing catastrophic destruction to our beautiful state of Oregon – leveling homes, nearly wiping out whole communities and destroying forests and habitats throughout the state. Many of the communities most significantly impacted were already struggling with the health, economic…