Deans announce new challenge
Thirteen deans from Schools across Harvard today announced $150,000 in new entrepreneurship challenges, expanding Harvard support for student innovation and cross-School collaborations with broad social and cultural impact. Sponsored by the deans and hosted by the Harvard Innovation Lab, the Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge and the Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge call on undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral candidates across the University to tackle social issues head-on. Students are encouraged to build cross-disciplinary teams and apply their diverse interests, knowledge, and expertise as they create innovative solutions to challenges in the fields of culture and health. “The President’s Challenge has demonstrated how faculty and students from throughout the University can apply their creative energies to address pressing societal problems,” said Provost Alan M. Garber. “These two new challenges sponsored by the deans will build upon that experience. They will show how the same entrepreneurial spirit can be brought to bear on cultural...