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Outreach: Influencing STEM Knowledge

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The Open Prosthetics Project

An IGERT trainee and Iraq veteran founded the Open Prosthetics Project, a nonprofit website that applies the ethical and intellectual property foundation of open source software to the task of building better artificial limbs in the search for a realistic and fully functional prosthetic. The IGERT research concerning biologically inspired materials is the foundation for this project. The story was featured in Wired, a magazine that reports how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics. http://www.wired.com/ gadgets/mods/ news/2006/09/71797..