Highlights from Aron Ralston's (E'97) Keynote Speech
Aron Ralston (E'97) delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon University's 114th commencement on May 15, 2011. Ralston's heroic story of survival is the subject of the film "127 Hours." Pinned by a half-ton boulder in a Utah canyon for nearly a week, Ralston turned to the analytical problem solving skills he acquired at Carnegie Mellon University to survive and eventually free himself.
Please note, due to contractual obligations we cannot post the entire keynote address by Mr. Ralston,
Dallas Hall light show celebrates SMU's 100th
For 10 evenings, representing SMU's 10 decades, Dallas Hall was illuminated in honor of the citizens of Dallas who generously provided the funds for SMU's first building.
Thunderbird Commencement April 28, 2011 - Student Speaker
On Demand IX Class Speaker - Aaron Stillman '11
BKY Award Winner and Full-Time Class Speaker - Jessi Bellama
Project Artemis Pakistan: Maria Umar
Pakistani businesswoman Maria Umar talks May 14, 2011, about her participation in Project Artemis Pakistan, a women's empowerment program at Thunderbird School of Global Management in partnership with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women and the U.S. State Department.
Gladstone lecture 2a
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GoNU.TV Season Recap - Women's Ice Hockey 2010-2011
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TEDx McMaster U - Dr. Patangi Rangachari
"Twixt, Tweets and Twits: Testing Time for Teachers"
What's on? Leesoefening
Op het einde van deze les kan de student: Aan de hand van een overzicht van televisieprogramma's een eigen avondje televisie samenstellen.
"Paradise Lost" Marathon Reading
Notre Dame students and faculty came together to read the 17th-century English masterpiece "Paradise Lost" aloud in one sitting. Over the course of 10 hours, readers of John Milton's 10,000-line poem moved from heaven to hell to the Garden of Eden, taking on the parts of God, Satan, Adam and Eve, and a host of angels.
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2011 Commencement Address by Penn President, Dr. Amy Gutmann
Penn President Amy Gutmann addressed nearly 6,000 graduates at the University of Pennsylvania's 255th Commencement on Monday, May 16. At the ceremony, Gutmann also conferred honorary degrees to Renée C. Fox, a pioneer in the field of medical sociology; Mo Ibrahim, the mobile communications entrepreneur; Nicholas D. Kristof, columnist at The New York Times, and Sheryl WuDunn, senior managing director, Mid-Market Securities, and president of the social investing consultancy, TripleEdge; Ei-ichi N
English Language and Culture: Boost your Confidence
Learn and live English and boost your confidence: English Language and Culture at Simon Fraser University
http://www.sfu.ca/elc
Stop memorizing vocabulary. Start living in English.
English language instructor Terri Wershler discusses why Simon Fraser University's English Language and Culture program is different.
Terri explains how SFU's English Language and Culture (ELC) program helps students learn English.
ELC students do far more than rote memory work and exercises that focus on getting th
English Language and Culture: Start Living English
Learn to speak English and understand North American culture: English Language and Culture at Simon Fraser University
http://www.sfu.ca/elc
Stop memorizing vocabulary. Start living in English.
SFU english language instructor Jeff Behrner discusses why Simon Fraser University's English Language and Culture program is unique.
Jeff explains that the emphasis on culture is key to SFU's English Language and Culture (ELC) program. In addition to English grammar and vocabulary, students learn to unde
Rodrik on Globalization, Development, and Employment
Dani Rodrik of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about trade, the labor market, and trade policy. Drawing on a recent paper with Margaret McMillan on trade and productivity, Rodrik argues that countries have very differing abilities to respond to increases in productivity that allow production to expand using fewer workers in a particular sector. When workers are displaced by productivity increases, what is their next best alternative? Rodrik discusses how this varies acro
Global Focus on Knowledge　　Syllabus
Coordinator, navigator: Yasushi Yamamoto
Monday 16:20-17:50 @Hall,18th bldg., Komaba Campus
Introduction to Lecture Series
The Global Focus on Knowledge Lecture Series takes up the field of sociology this time. Sociology is a rather curious field of study. Sociology has no specific target of study; sociologists study everything under the sun in human society. The areas that sociologists study [...]
2. Introductory Lecture
Moral Foundations of Politics (PLSC 118)
The trial of Adolf Eichmann, as presented in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, is the topic of discussion. Professor Shapiro asks students what made them uncomfortable, not only about Eichmann's actions as a Nazi officer, but also the actions of Israel in capturing, extraditing, trying, and executing him. This begs the questions, what makes a government legitimate? And more specifically, was the Third Reich illegitimate and was Eichmann breaking som
14. Rights as Side Constraints and the Minimal State
Moral Foundations of Politics (PLSC 118)
Today, Professor Shapiro dives more deeply into Robert Nozick's theory of the minimal, or night watchman, state. This formulation is not redistributive, nor does it consider rights as goals, but rather as side-constraints on what we can do. In other words, Nozick's is a deontological, not teleological, approach. However, the Achilles' heel of this formulation is the incorporation of independents, based on a system of compensation. Some people will opt
15. Compensation versus Redistribution
Moral Foundations of Politics (PLSC 118)
The class's examination of Nozick's minimal state has raised a number of important questions, most of which are rooted in his troublesome model of compensation. Nozick's would respond with his threefold account of justice: (1) justice in acquisition, (2) justice in transfer, and (3) rectification of past injustices. Nozick brilliantly demonstrates that "liberty upsets patterns"--even thought we can originally start off with any just distribution, allowin
Out of Range Values Mov iPod
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