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  • Meet the Software Engineer Designing with Inclusivity in Mind

    Meet the Software Engineer Designing with Inclusivity in Mind

    At the intersection of empathy and invention, Jason Grieves develops technology that bridges the digital divide for those with mobility or visual impairments. If Jason Grieves could boil his invention philosophy down to one phrase, it would be this: inclusive design. A software engineer who has worked at Apple, Microsoft and IBM, and the holder…

  • 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.

  • 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 an engineer, a veteran, an athlete and the holder of more than 20 groundbreaking patents in wheelchair and other assistive technology. If you use a wheelchair or know someone who does, chances are it includes technology invented by Dr. Rory Cooper. The founder and director of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories,More

  • We Have Ten Years Left To Meet the SDG Deadline

    We Have Ten Years Left To Meet the SDG Deadline

    Four recommendations for my colleagues in the sustainable development sector on the vital role of local, invention-based enterprises By any standard, 2020 has been a landmark year of disruption. For the development community, this disruption occurs at the beginning of the final decade to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), our shared blueprint to improve…

  • Julian Olschwang Wins the Broadcom MASTERS 2020 Lemelson Award for Invention

    Julian Olschwang Wins the Broadcom MASTERS 2020 Lemelson Award for Invention

    The fourteen-year-old’s innovation could potentially help people with hearing loss. At the 2020 Broadcom MASTERS® (Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering for Rising Stars) competition, The Lemelson Foundation awarded the Lemelson Award for Invention to Julian Olschwang of Los Angeles, California. His project, called Talk to the Hand, is a low-cost sign language glove that…

  • 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…

  • 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. During this unprecedented election season, there has been a focus on safety and security for voters and voting systems — but equally paramount should be the issue of accessibility. That beliefMore

  • 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…

  • Six Ways to Advance Equity for Inventive Changemakers

    Six Ways to Advance Equity for Inventive Changemakers

    A Working Blueprint for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs in Higher Education Fostering brave spaces that welcome a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and lived experiences is essential in any field. In STEM innovation and entrepreneurship, it is vital. Increasingly, entrepreneurship centers and science and technology programs in higher education have recognized a need for more authentic…

  • Solving the Food Supply Chain Through Chemistry

    Solving the Food Supply Chain Through Chemistry

    The New Frontier of Combating Food Waste Chemist Aidan Mouat has created a sustainable product that could save a quarter of a billion pounds of produce from going bad this year alone. Next time you pop a grape into your mouth, consider its path from the field to your palate. From harvest to packing to…

  • How Two Sustainability-Minded Inventors Are Changing the Way Food Could Be Grown in the Future

    How Two Sustainability-Minded Inventors Are Changing the Way Food Could Be Grown in the Future

    Skyler Pearson and Hugh Neri are striving to make vertical farming more effective – and more affordable – through their innovative company, Nexgarden Skyler Pearson and Hugh Neri of Portland, Oregon, are not your typical farmers. They’re inventors and entrepreneurs, and they spend much of their time in front of computers, on a quest to…