{"id":145942,"date":"2019-02-11T08:36:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T13:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=145942"},"modified":"2019-02-11T08:36:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T13:36:50","slug":"uconn-inventors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/02\/uconn-inventors\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating UConn Inventors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"grey-sidebar floating-sidebar col-xs-12 col-sm-4\">\n  <\/p>\n<h3>National Inventors&#8217; Day<\/h3>\n<p>To honor the significant contribution that inventors had made to the United States and the world, President Ronald Reagan declared February 11 to be National Inventors&#8217; Day in 1983. He chose this date to honor prolific American inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, who held over 1,000 patents.<br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;I have not failed. I&#8217;ve just found 10,000 ways that won&#8217;t work.&#8221; &#8220;Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.&#8221; &#8220;Many of life&#8217;s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A review of famous quotes from one of the world&#8217;s most prolific inventors, Thomas Edison, seems to indicate it&#8217;s not all about &#8220;a-ha&#8221; moments when it comes to innovation. Inventing is as much a test of endurance as it is a knack for the novel.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of National Inventors&#8217; Day, we want to honor all of the faculty inventors across UConn&#8217;s campuses who have persisted in the face of setbacks, failed experiments, and hard work to contribute to the culture of innovation and invention that help the University thrive. After all, according to Thomas Edison, &#8220;if we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Top UConn Inventors<\/h3>\n<p><em>The list below represents faculty from all schools and colleges who have submitted the most invention disclosures that led to an issued US patent during their tenure at UConn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>James Bell, <\/strong><em>Professor Emeritus, Chemical &amp; Biomolecular Engineering<\/em><strong><br \/>\nMark Brand, <\/strong><em>Professor, <\/em><em>Horticulture<\/em><strong><br \/>\nRobert Gao, <\/strong><em>Pratt &amp; Whitney Chair Professor, Mechanical Engineering<\/em><strong><br \/>\nA. Jon Goldberg, <\/strong><em>Professor, School of Dental Medicine<\/em><strong><br \/>\nFaquir Jain, <\/strong><em>Professor, <\/em><em>Electrical\u00a0 &amp; Computer Engineering<\/em><strong><br \/>\nBahram Javidi, <\/strong><em>Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Electrical\u00a0 &amp; Computer Engineering<\/em><strong><br \/>\nEric Jordan, <\/strong><em>Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering<\/em><strong><br \/>\nBruce Liang, <\/strong><em>Dean,<\/em><em>School of Medicine<\/em><strong><br \/>\nMatthew Mashikian, <\/strong><em>Professor Emeritus, Electrical\u00a0 &amp; Computer Engineering<\/em><strong><br \/>\nFotios Papadimitrakopoulos, <\/strong><em>Professor, Chemistry<\/em><strong><br \/>\nRichard Parnas, <\/strong><em>Professor, Chemical &amp; Biomolecular Engineering<\/em><strong><br \/>\nDaniel Scola, <\/strong><em>Professor Emeritus, Institute of Materials Science<\/em><strong><br \/>\nGregory Sotzing, <\/strong><em>Professor, Chemistry<\/em><strong><br \/>\nPramod Srivastava, <\/strong><em>Professor, Immunology<\/em><strong><br \/>\nSteven Suib, <\/strong><em>Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Institute of Materials Science<\/em><strong><br \/>\nGeoff Taylor, <\/strong><em>Professor, Electrical\u00a0 &amp; Computer Engineering<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Dennis Wright,<\/strong><em> Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Mei Wei, <\/strong><em>Professor, Materials Science &amp; Engineering<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/connecticut-convergence-institute\/nai-chapter\/\">UConn Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors<\/a> will host a special event this evening at the Mark Twain House in Hartford. Eric S. Hintz, PhD, historian with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/\">Smithsonian Institution,<\/a>\u00a0will discuss\u00a0the research underlying Places of Invention, an exhibition at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of American History that showcases the spirit of innovation in Hartford, CT and several other communities. <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/connecticut-convergence-institute\/2019\/01\/17\/celebrate-national-inventors-day-at-mark-twain-house-feb-11-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To register and for more information.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow UConn Research on <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FUConnResearch&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C2190cc806094420bf3b008d61efc1d08%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636730465490725996&amp;sdata=x7toGyDgv%2FVxj1VaaW1ggPWSf9nnmNcoeDxG0WIca5I%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><em><u> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fuconnresearch&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C2190cc806094420bf3b008d61efc1d08%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636730465490725996&amp;sdata=7hid3FG3d5m%2BFMFp%2Fm2NAw2dtSadVPfpn5nuLzc%2BkrY%3D&amp;reserved=0\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of National Inventors&#8217; Day, here&#8217;s to all of UConn&#8217;s faculty, staff, and student inventors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":121946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2224,1866,2226,2076,2166,1868,1864],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2140],"class_list":["post-145942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cahnr","category-engr","category-clas","category-research","category-sdm","category-meds","category-pharm"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 05:10:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/121946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145942"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=145942"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=145942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}