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Challenge encourages Harvard students to tackle world problems

By Chris Reidy

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 15, 2012

The Harvard Innovation Lab will host the “$100K President’s Challenge” as a way to seek “entrepreneurial solutions” from Harvard students to such problems as global warming and poverty, Harvard University president Drew Faust announced today. The President’s Challenge has been designed to give Harvard students “access to expertise in innovation” as they look to develop potential solutions to “pressing worldwide problems.” Student teams will compete to win a share of a $100,000 prize that will be awarded just before commencement in May.

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