
LEGS in the News
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...
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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