Band of alums goes global
Kinetix performing at TEDxDU 2011. 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...
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John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light performed at TEDxDU on May 13. Local rocker John Common’s new video features some unlikely stars: DU students, staff, faculty, and Denver community members....
View ArticleProfessor receives grant to study cell development
DU's Todd Blankenship talks at TEDxDU 2011 in May. 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...
View ArticleMusic Video Filmed during TEDxDU is Released
John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light are collaborators in the truest sense of the word. Recently, the band harnessed the power of music fans to create a video for “In My Neighborhood,” another...
View ArticleAllahyari builds bridge between U.S. and Iran with art
IRUS art, Co-Prosperity Sphere gallery, Chicago, 2010 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...
View ArticleTEDxDU spotlights radical collaboration
Students and others watched the sold-out TEDxDU event at TEDxDU Active, a satellite viewing event in the Driscoll Ballroom. Photo: Justin Edmonds A paralyzed woman walked across the stage, a pair of...
View ArticleComic is serious about laughs
Rob Gleeson at TEDxDU in May. 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...
View ArticleForecast is sunny for alumna’s solar power career
Alumna Martha Symko-Davies spoke at TEDxDU on May 13. Photo: Wayne Armstrong Martha Symko-Davies (PhD ’97) had a memorable May 20. She got to meet Vice President Joe Biden and show him around the...
View ArticleArt grad Morehshin Allahyari knows the power of intercultural art projects
“It made all of us realize how we could use art as a global language to humanize each other," Morehshin Allahyari says of her IRUS project. Photo courtesy of Morehshin Allahyari Not long after artist...
View ArticleDU to stream full day of TED2012 programming Feb. 29
Musician and comedian Reggie Watts is one of the featured speakers at TED2012 on Feb. 29. If Long Beach, Calif., is too far to travel for the sold-out TED2012 conference, take heart: DU will live...
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