Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

Invention exhibit slated for June 15

June 14, 2006

This sketch of a concept solar car was created for the MIT Vehicle Design Summit, a gathering of students who will work on alternative transportation ideas this summer.

Student summit set on vehicle design

June 14, 2006

IDEAS Competition awards

June 7, 2006

Interns at Appropriate Technology Services in Lesotho work with graduate student Amy Mueller, second from right, and sophomore Perry Hung, right, on the MIT solar micro-generator in January.

Students win grant for Lesotho solar generator

June 5, 2006

Freshman R.J. Ryan hits the 'emergency' button in his automatic dorm room on East Campus. The button activates 'party mode.'

Freshmen automate dorm room

May 24, 2006

New $100K doubles entrepreneurial prize

May 24, 2006

Elizabeth Goldring, foreground, looks into 'seeing machine' to take a virtual tour of a gallery using a joystick. Her assistant, Jackie McConnell, is at right.

MIT poet develops 'seeing machine'

May 23, 2006

Warren Leon presents the top prize in the 2006 Ignite Clean Energy Business Presentation Competition to representatives of Stellaris, from left, Jim Paull, president and co-founder; Tom Ward, vice president; and Lee Johnson, chief operating officer and co-founder.

Competition 'ignites' clean-energy startups

May 17, 2006

MIT teams rewarded for innovation

May 10, 2006

Deshpande Center names Sandler executive director

May 8, 2006

James Fergason has been named the 2006 winner of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the largest cash prize in the United States for invention. Fergason's work led to the creation of liquid crystal displays.

Lemelson-MIT awards prizes for innovation

May 3, 2006

Professors Yet-Ming Chiang, left, and Steven Hall show components of their electrochemically actuated morphing rotor prototype (foreground) as well as a reduced-scale model (background) of a previous technology that uses piezoelectrics as the active materials.

MIT makes move toward vehicles that morph

March 22, 2006

Graduate student Amos Winter displays a wheelchair model currently being produced in Tanzania at a MacVicar Day exhibit March 3 in the Stata Center. Winter is working on technical solutions to the challenges faced by wheelchair users in that country.

Building a better wheelchair

Grad student aims to help Tanzanians

March 21, 2006

Young inventors to gather at MIT on March 4

February 24, 2006

Carl Dietrich, 2006 winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, holds a model of the personal air vehicle that he envisions for use in the air and on the road.

Sky's no limit for Lemelson winner

February 15, 2006

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