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Nigeria's premier university, the University of Ibadan, in partnership with NEST360, has hosted the first-ever Design Competition in the Faculty of

A young inventor at the global climate summit inspires the crowd to see ingenuity in everyone.

Four Indian-origin children were among the five winners in a major school-level science and engineering competition in the US.

A 14-year-old Indian American mathematician from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Akilan Sankaran, won the coveted $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize, the top award in the Broadcom MASTERS®, the nation’s premier science and

/PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science today announced that Akilan Sankaran, 14, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, won the coveted $25,000...

Also, the Frist Foundation will promote its vice president of programs to CEO at the end of the year, and the Lemelson Foundation has also chosen its next executive director from within.

The paper shows current academic promotion and tenure processes can fail to fully assess and value entrepreneurial, innovative and community-engaged endeavors that can produce the kind of societal impacts universities are increasingly being called upon to provide.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – University promotion and tenure criteria and processes should be broadened and made more inclusive to value innovation, entrepreneurship and other forms of scholarly impact, a collaboration led by Oregon State University asserts today in a paper published in Science.

University promotion and tenure criteria and processes should be broadened and made more inclusive to value innovation, entrepreneurship and other forms of scholarly impact, a collaboration led by Oregon State University assert today in a paper published in Science.

Through the Society for Science, The Lemelson Foundation gives $100 awards to outstanding young inventors in Society Affiliate Fairs around the country. This prize was especially created to reward middle school inventors whose projects exemplify the ideals of inventive thinking by identifying challenges in their communities and creating solutions that will improve lives. The New York City […]