How to Solve a Complex Problem – Kristian Dubrawski
Chasing Down Passion: Jacqueline Chong
Social Media is Dead: Brad Peppinck
The Awesomeness of Your Contradictions: Tetsuro Shigematsu
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Name: Tetsuro Shigematsu
Talk Title: “The Awesomeness of Your Contradictions”
Notes: Faculty of Arts, Creative Writing, M.F.A., New Media, 2nd year.
Topic:Stick out your thumb. That’s the thickness of my press package. If you flip through it, fanning past you would be clippings from all manner of periodicals; from monthly community [...]
What It Means For the West To Meet the East: Jen Loong
And here’s another…
A Vehicle for Change: Thato Makgolane
They’re here!
First video from the TEDxTerrytalks 2010, courtesy of Thato Makgolane. Details below the fold. (Watch this space for the other 7 being released in the next two weeks)
DUSTY FOOT PHILOSOPHIES (VIDEO) K’NAAN, SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
Staying true to our focus on important global issues, on September 24, 2010 The Terry Project had the pleasure of hosting world renowned musician, poet and activist K’naan at the UBC Chan Centre for a personal talk and interactive q&a.
In this talk, K’naan shares his reflections on conflict, peace, and overcoming cultural divides [...]
(2009) WISH TALK: Broken Mosaic: Challenging Canadian Diversity: Tahira Ebrahim
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Name: Tahira Ebrahim
Talk Title: “Broken Mosaic: Challenging Canadian Diversity”
Notes: Faculty of Arts, Human Geography, 4th year
Topic:Within our university’s (UBC) 200 largest clubs listed, 30 are culturally associated, nearly each one aiming to promote multiculturalism or to promote diversity and cultural enrichment. Yet how often and [...]
(2009) What Synthetic Biology Can Do For You: Eric Ma
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Name: Eric Ma
Talk Title: “What Synthetic Biology Can Do For You”
Notes: Faculty of Science, Integrated Sciences in Biochemistry, Cancer Biology andMicrobiology, 4th year
Topic:Synthetic Biology is an ascending interdisciplinary field, crossing the traditional boundary between Science and Engineering, while simultaneously raising new possibilities and questions in [...]
(2009) Malaria: How We Are Biting Back: Nadine Qureshi
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Name: Nadine Qureshi
Talk Title: “Malaria: How We Are Biting Back”
Notes:Faculty of Science, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, 3rd year
Topic: Nadine has heard a life-time of stories from her dad and her grandma of what it was like to grow up in Tanzania, East Africa. [...]
Have you gone through your education with no clear idea of what it is that you love to and of what it is that you do best? From one of the world’s leading thinkers and speakers on creativity and self-fulfillment, a talk about talent, passion, and achievement.
The element is the point at which [...]
(2009) Major Angst: Camille Israel
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Name: Camille Israel
Talk Title: “Major Angst”
Notes: Faculty of Arts, Department of Anthropology, 4th year
Topic:Sometime during her first year at UBC, Camille started collecting examples of famous people with seemingly random majors. Did you know Garfunkel of Simon & Garfunkel was a Math major? Julia Roberts [...]
“Darwin’s Strange Inversion of Reasoning”
(January 14th, 2009, Frederick Wood Theatre)
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One of Darwin’s earliest critics noted his “strange inversion of reasoning: in order to make a perfect and beautiful machine it is not requisite to know how to make it.” This is indeed a counterintuitive idea, [...]
(2009) Sharing Wonder: Jennifer Kaban
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Name: Jennifer Kaban
Talk Title: “Sharing Wonder”
Notes: Unclassified Student
Topic: Jennifer believes that the most precious gift we can give each other is a sense of wonder. And she believes that the best way to achieve this is to share the world of science with non-scientists. She [...]
(2009) The African Paradox: Iris Amuto
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Name: Iris Amuto
Talk Title: “The African Paradox”
Notes: Faculty of Arts, Political Science Department, Major: Political Science, Minor: Women’s and Gender Studies, 4th year
Topic: Iris contends that amidst famines, wars and plagues, you will find people rising above to claim life in spite of these [...]
(2009) On the Perspectives of Global Nomads: Azim Wazeer
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Name: Azim Wazeer
Talk Title: “On the Perspectives of Global Nomads”
Notes: 4th year, Sauder School of Business.
Topic: The last five years of Azim’s life have seen him undertake undergraduate coursework in both Saudi Arabia and Canada, two vastly different spaces. What makes this story more [...]
(2009) Gender Quest: Alexander Cannon
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Name: Alexander Cannon
Talk Title: “Gender Quest”
Notes: Faculty of Arts, Music, DMA in Trumpet Performance, 4th year.
Topic: Alex discusses the influence of gender in his own life in this TEDx talk, describing both medical and social perspectives of gender in our daily lives and the [...]
(2009) Public Health in the 21st Century: the Open-Source Outbreak: Jennifer Gardy
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Name: Jennifer Gardy
Talk Title: “Public Health in the 21st Century: the Open-Source Outbreak”
Notes: UBC Alumni (Faculty of Science, 2000).
Topic: Dr. Jennifer Gardy, an alumnus speaker at the event, is co-leading the new genome research lab at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). She [...]
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