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2010 Tufts University Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award |
2011 |
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R&D 100 Award for the Leveraged Freedom Chair |
2010 |
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R&D 100 Editors’ Choice Award for the Leveraged Freedom Chair |
2010 |
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MIT School of Engineering Graduate Student Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring Award |
2010 |
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ASME Innovation Showcase, 1st place for the Leveraged Freedom Chair |
2010 |
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Gold Award, Spark Awards for design, world changing category for the Leveraged Freedom Chair |
2010 |
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Winner, Scientific American’s World Changing Ideas video contest for the Leveraged Freedom Chair |
2010 |
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Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards, medical devices category, runner up for the Leveraged Freedom Chair |
2010 |
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National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Advanced E-Teams grant for Indian trial and dissemination of the Leveraged Freedom Chair |
2010 |
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Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Fellowship to India (declined) |
2010 |
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Finalist, Lemelson-MIT Student Prize |
2010 |
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Extraordinary Stories Award, National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Summit |
2010 |
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MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering deFlorez Award for Design, 3nd place for the Leveraged Freedom Chair |
2010 |
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Inter-American Development Bank, $50,000 World of Solutions grant for Leveraged Freedom Chair trial in Guatemala |
2009 |
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ASME IDETC Conference, Graduate Student Mechanism Design Competition, 1st place for the Leveraged Freedom Chair |
2009 |
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ASME IDETC Conference, Robot Design Competition, 2nd place for RoboClam |
2009 |
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RESNA Student Design Competition Finalist, for the Leveraged Freedom Chair |
2009 |
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MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering deFlorez Award for Technology Innovation/Invention, 2nd place for RoboClam |
2009 |
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2008 |
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Hugh Hampton Young Memorial Fund Fellowship, given by the MIT Office for the Dean of Graduate Education |
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2007-2009 |
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National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Course Grant for Wheelchair Design in Developing Countries Class |
2007 |
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Tufts Alex Elias Memorial Prize Scholarship |
2003 |
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Tufts Varsity Football Letter Winner |
2001, 2002 |
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| Wheelchair Press |
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Case Study: Leveraged Freedom Chair
Core77 Design Magazine and Resource, 2/6/11 |
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2010 World Changing Ideas Video Contest
Scientific American, December 2010 issue |
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Wall Street Journal Innovation Awards
Wall Street Journal, 9/27/10 |
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Leveraged Freedom Chair featured on Daily Planet
Discovery Channel Canada, 5/12/10 |
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A smoother wheelchiar ride (featured on CNN and HLN, including American Morning)
CNN Edge of Discovery, 3/20/10-3/24/10 |
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MIT's levered wheelchair extends freedom to Third World (featured on the front page)
Boston Globe, 3/8/10
Click here for a picture of the front page of the Boston Globe showing the LFC
Click here for an animation of the LFC propulsion action made by the Globe
Click here for a video of the LFC produced by the Globe
Click here for Jim Smith's (author of the story) blog entry about the LFC Globe article |
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New wheelchair gets its first real-world test
MIT News, 2/18/10
Click here for a screenshot of the MIT homepage when this story was the spotlight
Click here for the LFC video produced by the MIT News Office |
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From MIT, a wheelchair that rolls with the terrain
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/4/10 |
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Off-road wheelchair makes the climb
Discovery News, 2/19/10 |
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A leveraged wheelchair
WBZ News Radio 1030, 3/8/10 |
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A serendipitous passion
Technology Review, 5/2008 |
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Reinventing the wheelchair
Word of Mouth, New Hampshire Public Radio, 7/14/08 |
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On a roll: Students help bring mobility to developing countries
MIT News, 5/21/08
Click here for a screenshot of the MIT hompage when this story was the spotlight |
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Champion for the disabled
MIT Spectrum, Summer 2007 |
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Building a better wheelchair
MIT News, 3/21/06 |
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| RoboClam Press |
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RoboClam may become the first 'smart' anchor
Boston Globe, 12/22/08 |
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Dig this: RoboClam
MIT News, 11/25/08
Click here for a screenshot of the MIT homepage when this story was the spotlight
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I just wish they hadn't called it "RoboClam"
Make Magazine Blog, 3/27/10 |
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Fast-digging clam inspires inventors
Cape Cod Times, 12/9/09 |
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RoboClam anchor holds ships steady
Discovery News, 12/2/08 |
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RoboClam to the rescue
Discoveries & Breakthroughs Inside Science, Ivanhoe News, 4/2009
This link contains a news video segment about the project |
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Robot clam achieves feat with foot
Scientific American 60-Second Science, 12/2/08 |
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Pocket-sized RoboClam could anchor and oil rig
Discover Magazine Blogs/Discoblog, 12/3/08 |
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To put up and oil rig, follow that clam
New Scientist, 7/15/08 |
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