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Inside ºìÌÒÓ°ÊÓ Powered by TEDxºìÌÒÓ°ÊÓ, highlighting faculty, students, staff and alumni, was a new feature at the 2014 Founders’ Day Weekend.

April 22, 2014

This year Founders’ Day Weekend added a new performance program, , featuring presentations by faculty, students, staff and alumni.


English Prof.  Willard Spiegelman presenting at "Inside ºìÌÒÓ°ÊÓ Powered by TEDxºìÌÒÓ°ÊÓ."

The program offered opinions and ideas on topics ranging from NSA wiretapping, to civil rights, to a whimsical exercise in giant origami.

Videos of the presentations will be posted soon.

The TEDxºìÌÒÓ°ÊÓ team is partnered with ºìÌÒÓ°ÊÓ’s Office of Development and External Affairs to present Inside ºìÌÒÓ°ÊÓ Powered by TEDxºìÌÒÓ°ÊÓ during Founder’s Day Weekend on April 11, 2014.

Speakers and Their Subjects
(Names are linked to their presentations.)

  • | Staff | Student Affairs: "The World Changers We Shape"
  • | Student | Lyle School of Engineering: "The (Non) Technical Development of Humanity"
  • | Alumni | Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences: "The Importance of Persistence"
  • | Faculty | Simmons School of Education and Human Development: "Why Businesses Should Work Like a University"
  • | Student | Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences: "Braiding Red Riding Hood"
  • | Faculty | Perkins School of Theology: "Dying to Live"
  • | Faculty | Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences: "The Heroes of Counterinsurgency"
  • | Faculty | Lyle School of Engineering: "Educating a New Generation of Failures"
  •  | Faculty | Dedman School of Law: "Good News, Bad News, Who is to Say!"
  •  | Student | Meadows School of the Arts: "Quartet-a-tete with The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet"
  •  | Faculty | Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences: "Civil Rights: A Journey"
  •  | Faculty | Meadows School of the Arts: "Ending Genocide in the 21st century"
  •  | Student | Lyle School of Engineering: "Creating Giant Origami and Shaping Lives"
  •  | Alumni | Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences: "NSA Wiretapping: A 4th Amendment Violation?"
  •  | Staff | ºìÌÒÓ°ÊÓ Athletics: "My mother's funeral... a lesson in kindness"
  •  | Faculty | Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences: "Realms of Gold"

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April 22, 2014