Limbitless Solutions, which manufactures personalized bionics and solutions for disabilities, is a nonprofit organization founded by 麻豆原创 students, which is dedicated to building a generation of innovators who use their skills and passion to improve the world around them.

This is the first time the Michelle Akers Award has been presented to students, and to a group. It鈥檚 the university鈥檚 highest award given to alumni who have brought international, positive attention to 麻豆原创 through their accomplishments.

Previous winners include:

The alumni association聽recognized the聽Limbitless Solutions team for its life-changing, innovative solutions it has provided to children.

With the help of actor Robert Downey Jr., they presented then 6-year-old Alex Pring with an “Iron Man”-themed bionic arm 鈥� a video (see link below) that has聽more than 53聽million views. And, the team鈥檚 work has brought about media opportunities in more than 150 countries, totaling more than three billion impressions on social and conventional media for Limbitless Solutions and 麻豆原创.

The team plans to bring 75 bionic limbs, and books, to displaced Syrian children this year, but that鈥檚 just the beginning of what they hope will be a broad-based, global, humanitarian effort.

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Miller joins a group of 麻豆原创 Knights who have appeared on the Sports Illustrated cover which includes quarterback Daunte Culpepper and women’s soccer great Michelle Akers.

A two-time Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year, Miller was selected in the seventh round as a fullback by the 49ers in the 2011 NFL Draft. Miller ranks as 麻豆原创’s all-time sacks leader with 35.5 from 2007-10, and finished his first NFL regular season with 11 receptions for 83 yards and a touchdown along with four carries for eight yards in 15 games with eight starts.

As the NFC’s No. 2 seed, San Francisco earned a bye before getting past New Orleans in dramatic fashion, 36-32, in the divisional playoffs. Miller earned the start and a 16-yard reception in the victory.

The 49ers will be hosting the Giants Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on FOX for the right to advance to Super Bowl XLVI.

Miller is not the only Knight looking to reach the Super Bowl. Selected in the third round by the Baltimore Ravens in last summer’s draft, offensive lineman Jah Reid appeared in all 16 regular-season games to help the Ravens grab the No. 2 seed in the AFC. He then saw time in Baltimore’s 20-13 win over the Houston Texans in the divisional playoffs.

Reid and the Ravens travel to New England to face the Patriots in the AFC Championship Sunday at 3 p.m. on CBS.