University of Washington student teams took home $38,500 at the Foster School of Business’ Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge, where interdisciplinary groups pitched healthcare devices and AI‑enabled tools. CPRight, a real‑time CPR feedback patch developed by undergraduates and grad students, won the grand prize. The competition underscores growing campus emphasis on translational research and student entrepreneurship. At Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, a student built VERA — a multimodal AI system that evaluates startup pitches by combining visual, audio and rubric‑based inputs to produce evidence‑based feedback. Faculty and judges say tools like VERA can scale coaching and provide sharper feedback to founders, though they caution about overreliance on automated scoring in high‑stakes evaluations.