Emily Cummins
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Emily Jayne Cummins is an English
inventor and entrepreneur
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Cummins is a student at Leeds University, studying Management and Sustainability.
Her entry into a sustainable design
competition, a pullable water carrier for manual workers in Africa
, earned her a Technology Woman of the Future award in 2006.
She is currently developing an evaporative refrigerator that does not require electricity, which can be used to transport and store temperature-sensitive drugs in developing countries, for which she has won a Female Innovator of the Year for 2007 from the British Female Inventors and Innovators Network as well as a £12,000 sponsorship from NESTA
.
Cummins is also an ambassador for The Women of Achievement and the Girls! Make Your Mark campaign.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
inventor and entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
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Cummins is a student at Leeds University, studying Management and Sustainability.
Her entry into a sustainable design
Sustainable design
Sustainable design is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of economic, social, and ecological sustainability.-Intentions:The intention of sustainable design is to "eliminate negative environmental...
competition, a pullable water carrier for manual workers in Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, earned her a Technology Woman of the Future award in 2006.
She is currently developing an evaporative refrigerator that does not require electricity, which can be used to transport and store temperature-sensitive drugs in developing countries, for which she has won a Female Innovator of the Year for 2007 from the British Female Inventors and Innovators Network as well as a £12,000 sponsorship from NESTA
NESTA
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts is an independent endowment in the United Kingdom established by an Act of Parliament in 1998....
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Cummins is also an ambassador for The Women of Achievement and the Girls! Make Your Mark campaign.