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Entrepreneurial Leader Recognized For Bridging Disciplines and Innovating Solutions

June 26, 2008

Joseph M. DeSimone, director of the NSF-funded Science and Technology Center for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes in North Carolina, was awarded the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for bridging the interface between seemingly disparate fields and concepts to foster invention and innovation. Full Story

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Lemelson-MIT Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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