Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Indian American student from Georgia won the Lemelson Early Inventor Award for the second straight year for inventing devices ...

Based in Portland, The Lemelson Foundation uses the power of invention to improve lives. Inspired by the belief that invention can solve many of the biggest economic and social challenges of our time, ...

The Lemelson Foundation, the world’s leading funder of invention in service of social and economic change, announced today that it has hired three new team members, expanding its capacity both locally ...

has received more than $1 million in gifts this year from to support math, science and engineering education in Oregon. The most recent gift, made in May, was a $269,500 pledge to establish the ...

The Lemelson Foundation, the world’s leading funder of invention in service of improving lives and promoting social and economic progress, today announced it will sign on in support of DivestInvest ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following a nationwide search for the most inventive college students, the Lemelson-MIT Program today announced the winners of the 2019 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize.

Innovation is helping lift some of the world's poor out of poverty. With devices such as foot-powered pumps in Africa and solar panels in India, inventors and entrepreneurs are creating and ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has accepted the donation of the papers of the late inventor Jerome H. Lemelson, a gift from the Dorothy Lemelson Trust. The Jerome H. Lemelson ...

Persuading lenders to make a loan or extend a line of credit to a new business with a social mission is a hard sell. Even socially minded financiers have trouble taking on that kind of risk alone. The ...