It’s been 25 years since the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil and nearly five years since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico gushed 200 million gallons of crude oil. Nearly 40 experts and eyewitnesses from science, government, industry and NGOs will gather to look back – and forward – at oil spill response.
New York Times bestselling author and syndicated columnist, Arianna Huffington will speak at the Center for Investment and Wealth Management (CIWM) Community Programs luncheon, on Thursday, November 6th from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa. The event is hosted by UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business and presented by Huntington Beach-based Inspired Financial.
Entirely student-run by a team of dedicated volunteers, >play is one of the flagship conferences in the Bay Area. The day features memorable keynotes from industry titans, panels on the latest trends, a product expo and rocket pitch, and a career fair. Throughout the conference, attendees stay connected through interactive elements as they build connections that may help them with their own big ideas.
The Lally School of Management, the business school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, started 50 years ago. On October 21, as part of a series of special events marking major anniversaries at the Institute, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Internet pioneer Steve Case will be the featured speaker. Case will participate in the concluding session of a day-long showcase titled “Investing in Entrepreneurship” at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) on the Rensselaer campus in Troy, New York.
“Marching to Zion: Celebrating and Preserving Black Sacred Music” — Baylor University’s 2014 Pruit Symposium — will bring together leading voices in black gospel music for conversation, celebration and music on Thursday, Oct. 23, through Saturday, Oct. 25, on the Baylor campus.
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will host the first-ever “Marketing Day” on Friday, Oct. 24, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the School, located at 721 University Ave. on the SU campus. The program will take place in Whitman 002.
USC Annenberg's Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD) welcomes U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel on Wednesday, October 15, at 12:00 p.m., for a discussion entitled “Why We Need to Harden Our Soft Power.”
The "Minerals and their Roles in Ranch Sustainability" symposium helps ranchers consider the importance of mineral nutrition for their cattle herds.
Stony Brook University will host its second TEDxSBU event on Nov. 14, 2014, from 9:30 a.m. - 7 p.m. in the Charles B. Wang Center Theater. The theme of this year’s event is “Connect the Dots,” and will feature 16 speakers and performers from Stony Brook’s student, faculty, staff, and alumni populations.
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host a day of conversations, startup pitches, and educational sessions designed to increase the pool of angel investors and entrepreneurial talent on Tuesday, October 21. The daylong showcase titled “Investing in Entrepreneurship” will be held at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) on the Rensselaer campus in Troy, New York.
Science on Tap, a live event and web show created by the Stony Brook University School of Journalism’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, makes its debut at the Hilton Garden Inn on the Stony Brook Campus on Wednesday, October 26 at 6:00pm with featured topic, “Autism: What Works and Why?
The 11th Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research, held by the American Educational Research Association. The title of this year’s public lecture, which features speaker Dr. James D. Anderson, is “A Long Shadow: The American Pursuit of Political Justice and Education Equality.”
Few journalists in American history have had the impact on their era and craft that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have. Pulitzer-winning journalists, Woodward and Bernstein will speak at Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD’s Presidential Lecture entitled “Looking at the Presidency: from Nixon to Obama” at Stony Brook University’s Staller Center for the Arts Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 4:00pm. The lecture is free and open to the public.
In his five lectures at the University of Chicago, Lawrence Lessig will examine institutional corruption in four different contexts: Congress, finance, media and the academy. He will conclude with a discussion of interventions that could correct the problem of institutional corruption.
Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Shepard Broad Law Center, in conjunction with the Nova Law Review and NSU’s Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELS), are seeking submissions for the 2015 annual Nova Law Symposium to be held Feb.12-13, 2015.
Wellesley College brings one of of the world’s most famous playwrights to the digital stage for its newest offering on the College’s edX platform, WellesleyX, starting October 1. “Shakespeare: On the Page and In Performance,” taught by Wellesley’s Yu Jin Ko, professor of English, and Diego Arciniegas, senior lecturer in theatre studies, provides an opportunity to study Shakespeare’s works in the interdisciplinary context of literature and theatre.
NYIT's TEDx event will feature 11 diverse speakers and three musical performers in a daylong event at NYIT Auditorium on Broadway.
Hamilton College’s Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art presents “Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature” opening Saturday, Oct. 11, from 4 – 6 p.m. This eponymous exhibition features new and recent work by Alyson Shotz, an abstract artist who creates monumental sculptures, photo-collages and installations.
Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University will hold an expert panel on October 2 to discuss the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, with a focus on interventions that could help curtail the spread of the deadly virus.
Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University will hold an expert panel on October 2 to discuss the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, with a focus on interventions that could help curtail the spread of the deadly virus.
Non-governmental stakeholders will convene a one-day conference at Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University on September 25, 2014 to discuss the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and their efforts towards GHSA implementation. The purpose of this event is to invite discussion of proposed priorities for the GHSA over the next five years, including action plans to curtail the current deadly Ebola outbreak.
An international seminar examining the accessibility to, and quality of, education for girls and women in Latin America.
The New York Times-bestselling author Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, will discuss her new book, The Valley of Amazement, and also the value of the humanities during the Beall-Russell Lectures in the Humanities at Baylor University on Monday, Sept. 29.
Acting U.S. Surgeon General Boris Lushniak Heads List of Prestigious Speakers, Thought Leaders
Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University will hold a conference on September 25 to highlight the disproportionate health challenges faced by many Latino communities and families--with a focus on possible solutions.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To raise awareness, University of New Mexico Athletics, UNM Hospital and UNM Cancer Center will sponsor the “Lobos Love Pink” Football game on October 10, 2014. Game organizers plan a half-time ceremony to celebrate breast cancer survivors and to honor those who have lost their battle to the disease
The campus-wide introduction of “Thrive,” Wake Forest University’s comprehensive approach to wellbeing, featured fun activities to get people thinking and talking about serious topics such as financial planning, work satisfaction, intellectual engagement and spirituality. “Wellbeing has many dimensions and goes far beyond physical and emotional health,” said Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch.
New Mexico’s largest cancer fundraiser will take place October 10 at the Las Cruces Convention Center. Proceeds from the dinner, dance and silent auction will fund Cowboys for Cancer Research endowments at the UNM Cancer Center in Albuquerque and at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces
Research underway at the Louisville Medical Center will be the focus of the 19th annual Research!Louisville.
One of Silicon Valley’s most successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists will return to Indiana University and his home state of Indiana on Sept. 18 for a day of special programs with students and an evening with the general public. An initial investor in WordPress, which fuels the majority of blogs around the world, IU graduate Tony Conrad has also funded companies such as FitBit, Flickr, Stoneyfield Farms and Blue Bottle Coffee. In his return to IU, Conrad will share information about his latest company, the social media platform About.me.
Brain aneurysms are life threatening, with almost 500,000 deaths worldwide each year, but accurate early diagnosis is critical to increase the likelihood of a healthy and successful recovery. Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) are taking a stand against this illness and will host a 5K run and 1.5-mile walk on Saturday, September 20, to help raise awareness, educate patients, and promote research for brain aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).
A group of leading environmental scientists and policy experts will gather Sept. 11 at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to discuss a New American Environmentalism.
"I Am Unbeatable–Documenting and Celebrating Stories of Empowerment: Photographs by Donna Ferrato," will be on display at the Fine Arts Gallery through Dec. 4. In addition to photographs, a video about a survivor of domestic violence named Sarah will run continuously in the gallery.
The largest-ever exhibition of works by 19th-century Texas artist Henry A. McArdle, whose works depict the state’s history, the Civil War and Baylor University’s founding, are on display in a free exhibition in Waco, Texas, through Sept. 21.
Experts gather Friday, Sept. 5 at Case Western Reserve University School of Law for the day-long conference: International Regulation of Emerging Military Technologies. Panels consider autonomous robotic weapons, military use of genomic science, cyber warfare, and non-lethal weaponry.
One of the exhibits, Surrealist Art from the Estate of H. Marc Moyens, closes Sat., Sept. 20, for the museum's annual Fall for the Arts, which brings the community together for a day devoted to the arts. There will be workshops and sessions on acting, music, writing, and visual art, surprise performances throughout the day, culminating in an auction of Moyens' collection.
The annual Ride for the 4-H Clover motorcycle tour is an awareness campaign for the Cooperative Extension Service 4-H program.
National conference to explore role of physician assistants in meeting challenges of rural health care
U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart will address degree candidates of Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Health Professions Division (HPD) at its Commencement at the Don Taft University Center Arena on Saturday, August 23 at 1 p.m. He will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa as part of the ceremonies.
Texas Tech University and Air and Waste Management Association will host The Fracturing Impacts and Technologies Conference.
UCSF Medical Center invites the community to participate in its 5k Hard Hat Walk and Lights On Festival on Saturday, Sept. 6, to support its new state-of-the-art healthcare campus for children, women and cancer patients in San Francisco’s Mission Bay.
Got a business idea? Pitch your business plan to a panel of experts in a 54-hour event to find out if you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur. UA’s Culverhouse College of Commerce STEM Path to the MBA Program is hosting a hands-on entrepreneurship workshop, Startup Weekend, to help jumpstart business ideas.
Today, nearly 700,000 people in the U.S. are living with a brain tumor, and yet, when it comes to pinpointing causes or risk factors, scientists are still searching for answers.
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Physical Therapy Program is pleased to host, in conjunction with Woods Duncan Consulting, “Preparing the Next Generation of Physical Therapists for Innovative Practice,” July 25-26.
A program to make learning about science as accessible as having a beer with friends examines the "incurable" condition of aging July 16 at a Louisville brewpub.
The Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University (Milken Institute SPH) will hold a panel discussion on July 16 that will explore the recent Supreme Court decision for Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business’ Institute for Business in Society (IBiS) and the Council of Better Business Bureaus are collaborating on new research on business self-regulation.
Lyl Tomlinson, a PhD candidate in Neuroscience at Stony Brook University, traveled to England last week where he won second place in the International Famelab competition, a contest that challenges young scientists to talk about their research engagingly for a general audience.
Academics and practitioners from around the world attended the Darden International Finance Conference held 22 and 23 May, to examine the complicated workings of international markets.
Seven finalists competed in the closing round of the second annual Darden Business Plan Competition, held in April at the U.Va. iLab, housed at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. The competition, open to all University of Virginia students, faculty and staff, awarded a total of $15,000 in prize money to four winning ventures.
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