FoxNews.com, December 2, 2009: David vs. Goliath: Colleges Battle Over Prosthetic Knee Invention  There's nothing like a "best of the year" list for stirring up controversy. This time one of the most prolific list-makers in publishing has literally kicked up an academic squabble...

 

Longview News-Journal, December 1, 2009: Credit due: LeTourneau deserves acclaim for prosthetic knee Good for LeTourneau University.  It appears the school's protest of a Time Magazine honor bestowed to Stanford University in California may be having an effect...

 

San Francisco Chronicle, November 25, 2009: Did Stanford knee project get a leg up? A small Texas college is challenging the national recognition a team of Stanford biomechanical engineering students has received for their development of a $20 artificial knee for use in the developing world....

 

KLTV, November 24, 2009: LeTourneau University calls for Time magazine retraction LeTourneau University is calling for a retraction from Time magazine.  A case of miss-placed credit stems from an article in the magazine...

 

Inside Higher Ed, November 23, 2009: LeTourneau Challenges Stanford on its Invention Are LeTourneau University undergraduates being robbed of credit for a prosthetic knee they invented? The university thinks so...

 

The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 22, 2009: Small University Accuses Stanford of Cribbing idea for New Artificial Knee A blocky artificial knee joint that can be produced for around $20 is at the heart of a dispute between Stanford University and LeTourneau University...

 

The Economic Times of India, November 16, 2009: Controversy mars Jaipur knee's Time Fete A controversy has struck Jaipur knee soon after it was listed as one of the 50 best inventions of 2009 on Time Magazine's website...

 

Longview News-Journal, November 14, 2009: LeTourneau stakes claim on prosthetic invention A Time Magazine honor bestowed to Stanford University in California has caught the attention of LeTourneau University, which claims the magazine didn't do its homework...

 

KLTV, November 12, 2009: LeTourneau Questions TIME's Top 100 List In Time Magazine's list of best inventions of 2009, Stanford University is given credit for a design that LeTourneau University researchers said they have been using for years...

 

 

Dallas Morning News, July 6, 2008: Group hopes prosthetics foster independence in Sierra Leone (PDF)  Ten years later, Gibrilla Sesay still trembles when he tells what happened.  Rebels raided his village and forced Mr. Sesay to carry the loot into the bush until he said he was tired. The rebels had him choose one of two slips of paper...

 

 

Dallas Morning News, July 3, 2008: LeTourneau University reaches out to Africa with its engineering knowledge (Video)

 

ASEE Prism, February 2007: A Step in the Right Direction (PDF) LeTourneau University, a small evangelical school in Longview, Texas, doesn't often find itself in the national spotlight.  But late last year, it was pleased to see its LEGS Project become the subject of a lengthy feature in the Chronicle of Higher Education...

 

Chronicle of Higher Education, November 17, 2006: Texas Students Engineer Hope for Amputees (PDF) David Dittenber frowns in concentration as he tightens a bolt to a prosthetic leg he and his classmates have helped craft in their engineering laboratory here at LeTourneau University...

 

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