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Categories Words with bite 13 MAY2011 Blog NoComme ts Ideas News

By: Chelsey Baker-Hauck

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Jose Guerrero doesn't mince words. He tums them over, lifts them up and spits them out at his audiencewith spi ri t and conv ic tion and tang.

TEDxDU 2011 SALON SPEAKER He says words are a weapon. But not like a bomb. No, more like chemotherapy that fights somethingugly and leaves something hea led in its wake. TEDxDU 2011 TALKS

TEDxDU SALONS Guerrero says he found his voice through poetry - the voice of a single father, the voice of a "brown"man. A voice he's shared on HBO and in Denver clubs and in community poetry workshops. A voice thatriffs and rhymes, that finds cracks of truth and busts them wide. A voice that grabs people by the gutsand yanks them righ t ou t o f the ir sea ts.

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"lf we really want to, we can make our voices be heard," he told the TEDxDU 2011 audience.ArchivesIJUke

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Categories Out of the shadows Blog NoComme Is Ideas News


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What do you think of when you think of mental illness? Do you run away from it?DU student Andrew Steward had to confront it head on.

Several years ago, he started to believe that Jesus was coming back imminently; he headed for themountains to escape God's wrath. He began to live in his own inner world. He heard voices; he sawvisions of a snake that would repeatedly strike at this chest and bite his heart. He thought Satan wasattacking him. "l t was torture."

Uncategorized A stin t i n a mental hosp ita l didn 't help . Anti-psychotic medications didn't he lp. Steward found the mostrel ief by leaming to love h imse lf aga in.

Archives "When someone breaks their arm, you sign their cast. When someone has a mental problem, you run theother way. Why is that?" he asked the TEDxDU 2011 aud ience.

November 2011 June 2011 Steward says his message is to bring the issue of mental issue into the light. -If you're out there andyou 're going through what I went th rough," he said , -you are not alone." May 2011 April 2011 IJLike


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Categories Waking up again 3 MAY2011 Blog No Comments Ideas News


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When Ramona Pierson was 22 years old, she was hit by a drunk driver while she jogged across thestreet.

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It felt " llke a grenade went off in my head," an emotional Pierson recalled a t TEDxDU 2011. She felt herlife's blood spi lling out into the street. Her aorta had been severed , her neck sliced open, her legscrushed. She woke up from a coma 18 months later. She was blind and couldn't walk. She'd had morethan 50 surgeries and weighed just 64 pounds.


During her long recovery in a nursing home, Pie rson was "adopted" by e lder ly residents, who took herunder their wing and taught her to live again. -I wouldn't be here today wi thout extreme radica lcollaboration," she said.

Archives The accident changed the trajectory o f her life and may revo lutionize education as we know it. November 2011 She went on to eam two master's degrees and two doctorates. As a blind person, she had to innovate

her own education , and she decided to app ly those insights to help other students. She went on to foundSynapt ic Mash, which special ized in dif ferentiated and personalized instruction. Now, she's working withthe Univers ity of Denver to develop an -educat ional ecosystemn that applies an algor ithm to matchindiv idual leaming needs and inst ruct ional mater ia ls in real t ime in a technology-r ich env ironment .

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Categories Making a po lym er th ink 3 MAY2011 Blog NoComme ts Ideas News



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According to roboticist Richard Voyles, the reality of science fiction may not actual ly be too fa r o ff, andscience f ict ion doesn't have to be a predictor of the future.Speaking at TEDxDU 2011, Voyles said the fu tu re of robots as we know them may be in structura lcomputational polymers. Imagine "smart rubber and thinking gel.n Already, Voyles' team has developedintell igent robot tethers that essential ly allow them to essential ly push on a rope.They're changing the paradigm of computing.

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Categories A solar re vo lu tio n 13 APR2011 Blog No Comments Ideas News


SPEAKER PROFILE Martha Symko-Davies is powering a revolut ion. TEDxDU 2010 TALKS Her revol t is against fossi l fuels . Through her work directing the photovolta ic incubator program at the

National Renewable Energy Laboratory . she helps scientists and CEOs develop and bring to marketcutting-edge approaches to generat ing solar power.

TEDxDU 2011 SALON SPEAKER TEDxDU 2011 TALKS TEDxDU SALONS Enough solar energy fa lls on the earth every minute to meet the world's energy demands for an entire

year. Symko-Davies wants to hamess tha t renewable resource . She 'll tell us how at TEDxDU on May 13. TEDxDU STUDENT STORIES Uncategorized I)Like


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Categories Rad ica l co llabora tion 01 APR2011 Blog everywhere Ideas News No Comments

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TEDxDU is on to something: radical col laboration. TEDxDU 2011 SALON SPEAKER TEDxDU 2011 TALKS On May 13, TEDxDU will b ring together an un likely cast, mixing science with faith, h isto ry with

techno logy, music with mental il lness. Ideas and passion will unite in new and unimagined ways on theTEDxDU stage. Cooperation wil l be redefined, and inspirat ion wil l come from unl ikely sources. TEDxDU SALONS

TEDxDU STUDENT STORIES Uncategorized Now that I'm looking, I see rad ical collabora tion everywhere a t DU.

ArchivesDU Electronic Media Arts and Design master's student Cory Metcalf and arti stic partner David Stout -the duo is known as NoiseFold - will perform a real-time animation and electronic sound piece at theDenver Art Museum at 7 p.m. April 1. Metcal f ha s developed sof tware that tums data into 3D animationsand sound, and he and Stout interact with data to create live per fo rmances tha t are unique each time. "Ihope to expand the notion of what a li ve visua l per fo rmance is," Metcalf says. And in a pro ject thatcrosses generational , cultural and discipl inary boundar ies, NoiseFold is col laborating with sc ient ists todevelop a "global ly dis tr ibuted networked installat ion env ironment in the form of a 'l ive ' arti ficialecosystem."

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Radical col laboration wil l again take center s tage when DU's 2011-12 Newman Center Presents ser iesk icks off this fall . The ser ies wil l spotl ight "convergences," inc luding a col laboration between a k lezmerc larinet player and a funk trombonist.

"The theme really came from an effort to try to emphasize our overall mission, which is to present aneclectic mix of disciplines and cultures and show how - especially today - artists are drawing on awide varie ty of inspirations and crea ting new work that's really hard to categor ize according to old labels, "says Newman Center Execut ive Director Steve Seifer t.The theme also app lies to "the convergences that happen from a socia l po int of view," Siefer t says.-Getting audiences to come together to perfo rming arts spaces to experience th is wide range of thingstogether: the common experience tha t we share , as d iverse as we are, b ring ing our own di fferentexperiences and cultura l backgrounds together, we all come to the same p lace, to a concert hall , toshare something that might be brand new to all of us."

Well said.

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Categories On the language of an im als 21 MAR2011 Blog No Comments Ideas N ews


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I grew up on a farm in close kinship with animals. I had ducklings and chicks as playmates and slept onthe li ving room floor with sickly bum lambs. I had my face licked routine ly by our fr iend ly family steerAlphie, who we loved as a pet yet had to wrestle and drag - bawling and kicking (humans and steerboth) - into a trailer to take to slaughter.If only Temple Grandin had been on our farm that day to help us understand why Alphie balked, toprevent the gut-wrench ing drama of his depar tu re, to ease his fright and make his last hours as p leasantand humane as possible.

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ArchivesShe has been there for mil lions of animals , though, and her des igns for humane animal-handling faci li tiesare now used for half of the beef ca ttle slaughtered in the U.S. Her insights in to anima l behavior andautism (she was diagnosed as a ch ild) have made her a hero among anima l righ ts and autism advocatesalike, and she's achieved rock-star status in the l ivestock industry.

November 2011 June 2011 Temple Grandin is one of my personal heroes. On May 13, she'll be joining us on the TEDxDU stage.Just 53 more days to wait! May 2011 April 2011 March 2011

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Categories Let's get radical 03 MAR2011~ Blog Comme ts Off~ Ideas~ N ew s By: Chelsey Baker-Hauck

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What do you get when you mix a slam poet and a mechanical eng ineer?"Radical Col laboration," that's what. I got my f irst tas te of this year 's TEDxDU theme at the TEDxDUSalon on Feb. 17when spoken-word art is t Jose Guerrero hur led language l ike a lance and engineerSusan Mueller demonst rated a new medical dev ice that could save l imbs.

~ TEDxDU STUDENT STORIESThe next dose of Rad ical Co llaboration comes at the TEDxDU Salon on April 14. The TEDxDU mainevent on May 13wil l mix science with faith, his tory with technology, music with mental i llness. I t wil lcrackle with energy and burst with ideas. I can 't te ll you who the speakers wi ll be quite yet, bu t I've seenthe l is t, and i t's , wel l, radical.Uncategorized

Archives What I can tell you is that TEDxDU may make you laugh, or cry. It's likely to rock you back in your seat.I t' s guaranteed to leave you inspi red and informed and ready to join with others to make a difference.~ November 2011 IJ Like~ June 2011~ May 2011


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Categories How to eat an elephant 02 MAR2011 Blog Comments Off Ideas News


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How do you eat an elephant? According to a Ghanaian proverb , "You must eat an e lephant one bite a t atime."Of course.

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Apply the same wisdom to seemingly insurmountable problems: How do we allev iate poverty? Improveeducation? Eradicate disease? Reform government? Improve the human condition?We do it one day, one step, one person, one do llar , one village at a time.

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ArchivesTEDxDU's Karambu Ringera began address ing the epidemic of AIDS orphans in Kenya by housing andeducating orphans in her own communi ty. She decided that allev iating poverty would help parents l ivelonger and therefore reduce the number of orphans, so she introduced microenterprise to the vi llage.

November 2011 She started with one woman, one bicyc le and a beehive. Now, Ringera's Friends of Amani microlendingprogram is poised to help an enti re communi ty . June 2011

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How do we make a difference? By doing what we can, every day. By eating the elephant one bite at atime.

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By: Chelsey Baker-HauckLast May, TEDxDU's Neal Foard encouraged us to reward the people who are -doing their part to saveus": engineers.

~ TEDxDU SALONS Scientists and eng ineers were already my rock stars, bu t I'm constan tly amazed by the remarkable ,creative and sometimes unlikel y ways they find to improve our lives.~ TEDxDU STUDENT STORIES~ Uncategorized Take engineering alumna Susan Mueller 's "Active Cast, " which helps diabetic foot ulcers heal morequickly and detects and treats new ulcers before they fo rm. It works bette r than curren t treatments but

costs less. It could save limbs and lives.

Archives John Morgridge, a sophomore eng ineering major , is working on DU's " lntelllso le" pro ject - a smart shoethat can detect gait changes in the elderly. Fal ls are a lead ing cause of death among the elderly, and ga itchanges can be an early waming sign of medical issues that contribute to fa lls.

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Muel ler and Morgridge discussed the ir work at a TEDxDU preview eventon Feb. 17, giving us two moreideas worth cheer ing about . Watch v ideos of thei r presentat ions:

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Categories The mind matters 10 FEB2011 Blog Comments Off Ideas News



When I was a teen, I was knocked out cold during a soccer match. I woke up on my back in the grass,staring up at my teammates huddled around me. Coach benched me for a few minutes - just longenough for the worst of the dizziness to pass - and then I played the rest of the game despite nauseaand a pounding headache.

TEDxDU SALONSI had a concussion. The acute symptoms were gone within a week, but I'm left wondering whethercontinuing play that day left me with any long- term deficits. Was that concussion the source of mylongstanding insomnia? The reason I couldn't s it through a performance of Stomp because the f lashingl ights and loud noise were unbearable?


ArchivesA brain injury is nothing to play around with, and if TEDxDU's Kim Gorgens has her way, kids withconcussions wi ll be sideli ned until their bru ised bra ins have a chance to heal. She helped author ColoradoSenate Bi ll 11-040, which mandates special ized concuss ions t raining for coaches, t rainers and otherswho work with students ; pul ling students wi th suspected concussions from play; and retuming studentsto p lay on ly afte r a professional with expertise in concussion management clears them. The SenateHeal th and Human Serv ices committee is cons ider ing the legislat ion today.

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