President’s Innovation Challenge names 25 finalists for 2020
Developing a device that can provide continuous ventilation to patients, affordable solar technologies, and real-time incentives for healthier lifestyles are just three of the 25 projects named finalists in the 2020 President’s Innovation Challenge, the Harvard Innovation Labs announced today. The annual competition calls on the Harvard community to work on compelling solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. “In a given year, the teams competing in the President’s Innovation Challenge represent the extraordinary talent that exists across the University,” said Harvard President Larry Bacow. “This year has pulled our finalists physically apart, but the wide range of problems to which they have applied their knowledge and skills gives me great hope. I look forward to a future in which their work with one another — and with communities around the world — resumes and thrives.” During the President’s Innovation Challenge Virtual Awards Ceremony on May 21, winners will take home...