Tag: Gordon Jones
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Nation & World
Smart response
The emergency communications startup RapidSOS was awarded $70,000 as the winner of the fourth President’s Challenge.
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Nation & World
Twenty team finalists named in Deans’ Challenges
Harvard University announced 20 student-led teams on Monday as finalists in four Deans’ Challenges focused on cultural entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, the food system, and innovation in sports.
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Innovation Lab appoints new managing director
Jodi Goldstein has been appointed the Evans Family Foundation Managing Director of the Harvard Innovation Lab.
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Nation & World
Taking stock of sustainability efforts
A conference co-hosted by Harvard looked at the future of sustainability efforts at universities and other large institutions.
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Nation & World
Healing outside the box
VACU Scan, an initiative to boost health care in developing countries, is the winner of the 2014 President’s Challenge.
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Nation & World
Challenge met
MatriTarg Laboratories, a venture created by a team of Harvard fellows seeking new ways to diagnose and treat solid organ fibrosis, claimed the grand prize in the inaugural Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge.
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Nation & World
Startups, sped up
Students from across Harvard’s Schools gathered at the Innovation Lab Sept. 28-30 for the StartUp Scramble, a mad-dash affair designed to take their business ideas from concept to pitch in just 48 hours.
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Nation & World
Introducing the i-lab
The Harvard Innovation Lab officially opened to the public Nov. 18. The ribbon cutters included President Drew Faust and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s startup upstart
Gordon Jones, director of the new Harvard Innovation Lab, has ideas on how to foster an entrepreneurial mentality at the country’s oldest university.