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Matthew Wisnioski is a professor and director of graduate studies in Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life (The MIT Press, 2025) and Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America (The MIT Press, 2016), and co-editor, with Eric S. Hintz and Marie Stettler Kleine, of Does America Need More Innovators? (The MIT Press, 2019). He’s working on a book about The Magic School Bus and the history of science education. His public writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, IEEE Spectrum, Medium, Science, and The Washington Post. He received a B.S. in materials science and engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, and completed a postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Matthew Wisnioski

The Birth of University Innovation

In the 1970s, the NSF tried to shake up the Cold War research model

Innovation Magazine and the Birth of a Buzzword

Today’s technoculture of entrepreneurship and creative problem solving owes much to this 1960s magazine

Trending Stories

Glucose Monitor Accuracy Claims Fall Short for Users

New Device Generates Power by Beaming Heat to Space

This Low-Cost Stopgap Tech Can Fix the Grid