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Olympus America Awards for faculty excellence
Olympus Innovation Award plus two new awards
The NCIIA and Olympus America announce the opening of nominations for three Olympus-sponsored faculty awards.
Sep 06, 2005
The NCIIA and Olympus America, Inc. are proud to announce the launch of an expanded Olympus Innovation Award Program for 2006, recognizing individuals who have fostered or demonstrated innovative thinking in education. This year's awards will include the Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award and the Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award, in addition to the Olympus Innovation Award.
Three awards offered:
The awards will be given to faculty nominees chosen from among the nearly 200 member institutions of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), a national alliance of colleges and universities fostering invention, innovation and entrepreneurship in U.S. higher education, and a partner to Olympus in executing the program. Olympus will present the three prize awards at the NCIIA's 10th Annual Meeting in Portland, OR on March 23, 2006.
The Olympus Innovation Award Program, now in its second year, represents Olympus' ongoing commitment to technological innovation and education. The original Olympus Innovation Award recognizes a faculty member who fosters an environment of innovative thinking among students through inventive teaching methods and hands-on educational opportunities. Nominations will demonstrate how the nominees' methods and philosophies have inspired students, and detail the resulting student innovations. The winner will receive a $10,000 prize award.
The Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated a sustained contribution throughout their careers to stimulating and inspiring innovative thinking in students in their own universities and throughout academia. The winner will receive a $2,500 prize award.
The Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award, whose winner will receive a $1,000 prize, recognizes an individual who has inspired innovating thinking in students in a discrete area and who, the judges believe, has the potential to make even greater contributions to the field in the future.
The nomination deadline for all three awards is September 30, 2005. All nominations must be submitted online at www.nciia.org/login. Nominate an outstanding faculty member now. - http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=pap5robab.0.ceolqcbab.9orc68aab.64&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nciia.org%2Flogin
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About the NCIIA:
The NCIIA was established in 1995 with support from The Lemelson Foundation. Its mission is to foster invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship in higher education; components of the higher education curriculum that are vital to the nation's economic future. The NCIIA accomplishes its goals by supporting curricula and programs that encourage the development and the work of E-Teams; multidisciplinary teams of students, faculty, and industry mentors working together to take an idea for a technological innovation and bring it through prototype development to commercialization.
About Olympus America, Inc.:
Olympus is a precision technology leader, designing and delivering innovative solutions in healthcare and consumer electronics worldwide. Olympus works collaboratively with its customers and its parent company, Tokyo-based Olympus Corporation, to leverage R&D investment in precision technology and manufacturing processes across diverse business lines.
These include:
- Gastrointestinal endoscopes, accessories, and minimally invasive surgical products;
- Advanced clinical and research microscopes;
- Lab automation systems, chemistry-immuno and blood bank analyzers and reagents;
- Digital and film cameras and digital voice recorders.In the U.S. and Canada, Olympus America serves healthcare and commercial laboratory markets with integrated product solutions and financial, educational and consulting services that help customers efficiently, reliably, safely, and easily achieve superior results. Olympus is the leader in gastrointestinal endoscopy and clinical and educational microscopes. The company's consumer electronics business spans North and South America. For more information, visit www.olympusamerica.com.
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