Big Ideas Grand Prize Pitch Day Showcases Inventions of Top Student Teams

The Health Technologies Collaborative Laboratory, a brand-new collaboration space to advance the development of medical devices to facilitate better healthcare and close the data and information gaps between innovators and industry, opened its doors last month in Blum Hall’s historic Naval Architecture Building with a launch event on Sept. 23 for a masked-up group of supporters, industry representatives, and campus VIPs.

An occasional series with Blum Center faculty, staff, students, visitors, and friends Ananya Roy is Professor of City and Regional Planning, Distinguished Chair in Global