BioEngineering affiliate faculty member receives $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
6/27/2011
John A. Rogers, the Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois, has won the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Prize.
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John A. Rogers, the Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois, has won the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Prize. The annual award recognizes outstanding innovation and creativity. Rogers accepted the $500,000 prize - one of the world's largest single cash prizes for invention - and presented his accomplishments at a ceremony during the Lemelson-MIT program's annual EurekaFest at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in mid-June.