Press
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2013
- College Campuses Improve Security, ABC News
- Top 11 Reasons You Should Ignore Top 10 (or Top 100) Lists, Metropolis Magazine
- 4 Daily Habits of Game-Changing Social Innovators, Forbes
- Children of the Revolution, Architect Magazine, Interview with Liz Gerber
- A Network of Students and Designers Solving Real-World Challenges GOOD.is
- Why do People Give on Crowd-Funding Sites? NPR Marketplace
2012
- Does Crowdfunding Fail Some of the Most Promising Entrepreneurs? Huffington Post
- A Banner Year For Do-Good Design! 10 Notable Developments In 2012 Archetizer News
- STEM Students Must be Taught to Fail US News and World Report
- Featured Ideators: DFA UIUC OpenIDEO
- Design for America: Architecture students bridge gap between businesses and community Collegiate Times
- Will Raising Money be Child’s Play for a Toy Start-up? Inc Magazine
- Genius Idea: Design that Helps Us Thrive Oprah Magazine
- Mining waste for fuel, nanotech research, simple solutions & more dMASS Insights
- Design for America Adds Six Studios, Holds Second Annual Leadership Studio McCormick News
- Student entrepreneurs find success in niche markets USA Today
- Sproutel’s Interactive Toys Help Children With Chronic Illnesses Betakit
- Making Science Intimate National Endowment for the Arts
- RISD and Brown Students Use Design to Tackle Unhealthy American Eating Habits Core77
- Using Human Centered Design to Encourage Healthier Eating Forbes
- 5 Startups Using Tech to do Good Mashable
- Dr. Roboto? Interactive Teddy Bear Helps Kids Manage Diabetes The World at Work, GE
- SwipeSense gets a hand with $50,000 in seed capital, guidance from Healthbox Chicago Tribune
- Child’s Play: A Teddy Bear to Help Diabetic Kids Master Their Care GOOD Magazine
- Millennials Are the MacGyvers of Business Harvard Business Review
- 15 Women to Watch in Tech: Hannah Chung Inc Magazine
- An Entrepreneur’s Story MIT Tech Review
- Kairos Society: Jerry the Bear Huffington Post
- Innovator Video: Design For America Healthy Food Project Food + Tech
- Student Groups: DFA Dartmouth Engineering
- Designing for America RISD Alumni News
- Toy bear designers find home in Providence Brown Daily Herald
- Top 10 Design Initiatives to Watch in 2012—for the public good Archinect
- NEW: Providence Will Be Incubator for Creative New Toy Company GoLocalProv
2011
- Changing Community Service Columbia Spectator
- Project Seeks to Solve Social Issues Using Human-Centered Design Process UCLA Anderson School of Business
- Healthbox, a Business Accelerator for Healthcare Startups, Debuts Inaugural Class SwipeSense Feature: Wall Street Journal
- Healthbox incubator’s first class of startups SwipeSense Feature: TechCrunch
- Grassroots student-led design organization goes national at seven other cities Evanston Patch
- Innovation Self-Efficacy: Fostering Our Belief in our Ability Through and By Design Core77
- Design for Vermont NPR
- DFA Cornell: A Behind the Scenes Look Forbes Magazine
- Should Design be Taught as an Entrepreneurial Skill? SmartPlanet
- DFA: Ready to Launch! Core77
- Design, Creativity on Display at Cusp Chicago Tribune
- With Stars in Their Eyes Fast Company Magazine
- Design for America Expands Nationally NU McCormick News
- Co-Creating with Tomorrow’s Designers Core 77
- Design for America Summer Studio 2011 Kicks Off The Third Teacher
- Science Connections: Motivation for Innovation TribLocal, Evanston
- The Innovation Equation Haystack
- DFA Students Tell Their Stories Through Pop-Up Studio NU, McCormick News
- DFA Creates Bear as Teaching Tool for Diabetic Children NU, McCormick News
- Faculty Members Advise Design for America Group NU, School of Education and Social Policy News
- Meet a Sandboxer: Yuri Malina Sandbox
- DIY Student Group Designs for America Stanford d.School
- Jerry the Bear with Diabetes: Meet His Makers Diabetes Mine
- Spotlight on DFA at Dartmouth Core 77
2009
- Designing change NU, McCormick Magazine
- Students, Faculty Piloting Design for America Program NU, Daily Northwestern








