Tag: science
Meet the Nation’s Top New Inventors
By Mike Drummond It looked easy on paper. Search the nation for stand-out college students doing ground-breaking, innovative research-and-development in the areas of science, technology and engineering. Finding these bright,...
Read MoreThe Young and Relentless
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...
Read MoreFive Questions With …
Judy Lee is co-host of Design Squad Nation, a national PBS television series that fosters the spirit and practice of youth innovation and engineering. When the vivacious industrial designer and mechanical engineer is not on...
Read More$9.5 Million Boost for STEM
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...
Read MoreScience Needs a Woman’s Touch
By Mike Drummond Like a plane crash survivor describing a brush with disaster, Joan Herbers is eager to talk about her “glass ceiling story.” She was a biology professor and one of eight department chairs in her college at...
Read MorePlanting the Seeds of STEM
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...
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