Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab builds on cross-disciplinary approach
Hundreds of people from across the University and its surrounding communities attended the grand opening of the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab in Allston last week. The Life Lab is the newest addition to the growing portfolio of innovation facilities on Western Avenue. It joins the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), which opened in 2011, and the Harvard Launch Lab, an alumni startup community and co-working facility that opened in 2014. Click to view slideshow. All three labs benefit from their proximity to Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Science and Engineering Complex, which will be the new home of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in 2020. The Innovation Labs cluster will foster a cross-disciplinary approach to entrepreneurship that will enable deeper impact and outcomes, addressing questions whose complexity demands forging new connections and crossing traditional boundaries, noted President Drew Faust at the launch of Harvard’s Capital Campaign. Over the...