If Long Beach, Calif., is too far to travel for the sold-out TED2012 conference, take heart: DU will live stream a full day of the five-day “conference of ideas” from 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Feb. 29 in the commons at Ruffatto Hall. Devoted to “ideas worth spreading” and bringing together luminaries […]
Not long after artist Morehshin Allahyari came to the University of Denver from Iran in 2007 for her master’s degree in digital media studies, she says she became “uncomfortable and shocked” by people’s perception of her native country. “[Iran is] more than donkeys in villages, women in hijab, the poor […]
Martha Symko-Davies (PhD ’97) had a memorable May 20. She got to meet Vice President Joe Biden and show him around the Process Development and Integration Laboratory (PDIL) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Both Biden and his boss are very interested in that work. […]
Rob Gleeson (BSBA ’10) says his finance degree comes in handy as a stand-up comic. “I can manage what little money I do make,” Gleeson cracks. The 23-year-old Gleeson, a former fixture on the Denver comedy circuit, takes his funny business seriously. He constantly emails himself jokes or bits of […]
A paralyzed woman walked across the stage, a pair of poets rapped about making their voices heard, and four masked men created a world of sound on an enormous marimba. As emcee Hilary Blair said, “It’s a very TEDxDU kind of day.” Scientists, inventors, spiritual leaders, students and teachers dazzled […]
Not long after artist Morehshin Allahyari (MA ’09) came to the United States from Iran in 2007 for her master’s degree in digital studies at the University of Denver, she says she became “uncomfortable and shocked” by people’s perception of Iran. “[It’s] more than donkeys in villages, women in hijab, […]
Video filmed in one five-hour period during the TEDxDU event at the University of Denver
For University of Denver biology professor Todd Blankenship, $1.4 million will buy a lot of fruit flies. It will also help students earn graduate degrees and help humankind understand how cells develop. It may even unlock the secrets behind insidious diseases. In June, Blankenship learned he had landed a $1.4 […]
Local rocker John Common’s new video features some unlikely stars: DU students, staff, faculty, and Denver community members. Common and his band, Blinding Flashes of Light, filmed the video for “In My Neighborhood” at TEDxDU May 13. Shot over the course of the afternoon, the music video features shots of […]
The Denver band Kinetix, a group of DU student musicians-turned-celebrities, have been selected for inclusion in the TEDx Global Music Project. The video of the group’s performance at TEDxDU 2011 in May appears on the Global Music Project’s website, a compilation of the best musical performances from more than 1,700 […]
A paralyzed woman walked across the stage, a pair of poets rapped about making their voices heard and four masked men created a world of sound on an enormous marimba. As emcee Hillary Blair said, “It’s a very TEDxDU kind of day.” Blair kept the pace rolling along as scientist, […]
Nearly 200 people gathered on May 13 at the University of Denver’s Morgridge College of Education to hear a DU alum, a Harvard law grad and a state senator sharing their thoughts on how to improve schools. It was the latest TEDxDU Salon, an event that’s part of TED, a […]
TEDxDU Active put the “party” in “watch party.” Attendees of TEDxDU Active — an off-site gathering for people to watch a live feed of the sold-out TEDxDU event that took place May 13 in DU’s Newman Center — may have been in a different room from the main event, but […]
More than 1,200 DU staff, students, faculty and community members will attend TEDxDU 2011 — a celebration of radical collaboration — on May 13. Nearly 900 attendees will gather at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts for an afternoon filled with talks and performances by local and national speakers […]
Organizers of TEDxDU — an independently organized event licensed by TED, which stands for “Technology, Entertainment and Design” with the theme of “radical collaboration” — have released the full slate of speakers for the May 13 event. “Using a bold mix of humor, science, technology, music and more, the TEDxDU […]