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NEW: GALVIN’S LEANING TOWARD ANOTHER TERM Will he or won’t he? Secretary of State Bill Galvin hasn’t decided whether he’ll seek another term. He’s leaning toward a run, he said yesterday, but he could change his mind.
Making public transportation more accessible to commuters across Africa, enabling children to break cycles of intergenerational poverty, and using technology to design zero-waste apparel are just a few of the 25 venture initiatives that will be showcased in the 2021 President’s Innovation Challenge Virtual Awards Ceremony.
Now in its 10th year, the President’s Innovation Challenge is a competition designed to bring the Harvard community together to work on solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. Winning teams will receive a share of $510,000 in prizes from the Bertarelli Foundation, co-founded by Ernesto Bertarelli, M.B.A. ’93.
“Though circumstances have kept most of us apart for much of the year, I have never been prouder of our community,” said Harvard University President Larry Bacow. “Our students and our alumni have surmounted tremendous obstacles to work with one another and to collaborate and innovate together. The ventures highlighted in the P
04/23/21
The Campus Technology Insider podcast explores current trends and issues impacting technology leaders in higher education. Listen in as Executive Editor Rhea Kelly chats with ed tech experts and practitioners about their work, ideas and experiences.
Supporting Entrepreneurship from a Distance: How Harvard’s Innovation Labs Went Virtual
Matt Segneri
When you picture a university innovation center, what comes to mind is usually a lot of hands-on collaboration and networking. There might be a makerspace involved, and surely a wall of post-it notes or whiteboard scribbles from a late-night brainstorming session. Basically all the things student entrepreneurs need to share ideas and work on that next startup venture. But what happens when that heavily in-person experience is forced to go virtual? For this episode of the podcast, I spoke with Matt Segneri, executive director of the Harvard Innovation Labs, to find out about the past year s challenges and successes converting
Greener groceries
All illustrations by @businessfrog
The average supermarket has about 30,000 items on its shelves, so discerning shoppers are awash in a sea of choices organic vegetables, artisanal cheeses, grass-fed meats, fair-trade coffee.
But what if shoppers want to purchase foods that minimize their impact on the environment? Information on a product’s carbon footprint typically can’t be found on its label.
Enter Marble, a startup co-founded by a Harvard graduate student that enables shoppers to scan a food product’s barcode with their smartphone and see an estimate of that item’s carbon footprint (in kilograms of CO2).