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URBANA, Ill., March 5 (UPI) -- A University of Illinois engineering student has been awarded $30,000 for developing a prosthetic arm for amputees in developing countries, the university says.
Jonathan Naber, 20, of Waterloo, is the winner of the Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student prize for his low-cost invention, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday.
Naber, a junior, will work with other members of the Illini Prosthetics Team to test a prototype at a prosthetics clinic in Guatemala.
"We will be deploying some of our concept arms there this summer to learn what (amputees) in these countries want and need," Naber says.
His prize is funded through a partnership with the Lemelson-MIT Program, says Rhiannon Clifton, assistant director at the Technology Entrepreneur Center at the university's College of Engineering.
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