The Lemelson-MIT Program today announced Professor Ashok Gadgil as the recipient of the 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation in recognition of his steady pursuit to blend research, invention, and humanitarianism for broad social impact.
Gadgil is the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation in UCB Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His diverse inventions and sustainable innovations are helping those in the developing world to live healthier, safer lives.
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