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  • ASEE Awards 18 Grants to Infuse Sustainability in Engineering Education

    ASEE Awards 18 Grants to Infuse Sustainability in Engineering Education

    The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), a Lemelson Foundation grantee, recently announced its 2024 cohort for the Engineering for One Planet Mini-Grants Program (EOP-MGP). Teams of educators from 18 engineering programs — representing schools of diverse sizes and geographical locations, including seven Minority-ServingMore

  • Third Derivative and RMI Launch Industrial Innovation Cohorts to Accelerate Decarbonization of Steel, Cement, and Chemicals

    Third Derivative and RMI Launch Industrial Innovation Cohorts to Accelerate Decarbonization of Steel, Cement, and Chemicals

    RMI and Third Derivative are launching the Industrial Innovation Cohorts initiative supported by a $2 million grant from The Lemelson Foundation.  Heavy industry produces the most widely used materials you see in your daily lives, from concrete and steel for buildings to chemicals and plastics for consumer products. Industry is responsible forMore

  • Foundation Senior Program Officer Joel Clement discusses climate and scientific censorship

    Foundation Senior Program Officer Joel Clement discusses climate and scientific censorship

    Before joining The Lemelson Foundation to lead its new Climate Action Initiative, Senior Program Officer Joel Clement was a forest ecologist, an official at the U.S. Department of the Interior, and in 2017, a whistleblower.  He recently spoke to NPR about his experiences in the federal government helping communities in Alaska prepare for the effects…

  • Escaping the Ordinary in the Classroom

    Escaping the Ordinary in the Classroom

    Grant Kightlinger and Molly Grace, co-creators of the “FairPlay Challenge.” This innovative education curriculum uses an escape room model to engage students in important life lessons. Many of us have had that experience in school of feeling trapped in a boring lesson about a topic that didn’t seem to have any relevance to our lives.…

  • Making Engineering Elementary

    Making Engineering Elementary

    Students engineering windmills that harness the wind’s energy. (Credit: Youth Engineering Solutions, Museum of Science, Boston) How a model for equity-oriented engineering curriculum is engaging students from all backgrounds and in the earliest grades Engineers are crucial to building our future. And to harness the best solutions for tomorrow’s social and environmental challenges, we need…

  • Transforming the Game with Invention

    Transforming the Game with Invention

    Shawn Springs, CEO of Windpact. This former athlete turned entrepreneur and inventor is creating new sports technology to improve player safety. Who can be an inventor? A dynamic new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation is posing that question through a unique lens, andMore

  • Recharging the Electric Vehicle Industry

    Recharging the Electric Vehicle Industry

    Siblings Steven (left) and Zora Chung (right) co-founded technology company ReJoule. This sustainable startup is building a circular economy for EV batteries from the ground up How do you make a critically important sustainable industry even more sustainable? For electric vehicles, one of the challenges is the sustainable source itself — the lithium-ion battery. Although…

  • Paving the Way to Sustainability

    Paving the Way to Sustainability

    Removing roadblocks for low-carbon building materials can spur innovation and lower greenhouse gas emissions By Rafae Ghani, Policy Advisor, ClearPath; Tess Moran, Industrial Policy Analyst, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions; Mallory Shaevsky, Government Affairs Associate, ClearPath; Emily Tucker, Senior Federal Policy Manager,

  • Teaching Beyond Textbooks

    Teaching Beyond Textbooks

    Rethinking Education for a World Fueled by Creativity and Innovation

  • Achieving that Lightbulb Moment

    Achieving that Lightbulb Moment

    How two high school inventors created a flashlight to help light the way for their community’s first responders

  • New Grantees Announced for Engineering for One Planet

    New Grantees Announced for Engineering for One Planet

    Lemelson Foundation funding supports higher education institutions integrating sustainability into engineering

  • Engineering for One Planet: A Paradigm Shift for Climate Action and a Sustainable Future

    Engineering for One Planet: A Paradigm Shift for Climate Action and a Sustainable Future

    World Engineering Day prompts crucial questions: Can the very ingenuity that defines engineering — the force that builds our world’s cities and puts a world of knowledge in our hands — help pave the path towards a truly sustainable future? Can it become an instrument not just for technological progress, but also for the thriving of our planet and…