Sentences with phrase «inspiring lectures by»

She remembers inspiring lectures by famed educators, activists, and writers such as Robert Cole, Marian Wright Edelman, Jonathan Kozol, and Paulo Freire, who she says «had such an impact on my life» when he taught for a year in 1969.

The iDate conference started the next morning with the inspiring lecture by Henning Wiechers — founder and CEO of Metaflake who is very knowledgeable about German and European dating markets.

In the last year I heard an inspiring lecture by an orthopaedic surgeon who had worked at hospitals in tropical Africa.

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Inspired by Frank Gehry and a lecture he'd attended in Zurich, he decided that pursuing a master's at Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles would be the perfect detour from the real world.

Come to Joppa on April 11 for a lecture by Ann - Marie Runfola about the Stellwagen Sanctuary Seabird Stewards (S4) Program, an inspiring citizen science initiative that monitors seabirds off the coast of Massachusetts.

I had been inspired by a neuropharmacology lecture on cytokines, so when the time came for my final - year research project, I chose one on cytokines and cancer.

Inspired by a 1953 lecture in which Urey outlined his ideas, Miller proposed to cook up the soup in a lab.

Tomonaga was inspired to study physics by hearing Albert Einstein lecture in Kyoto in 1922, as well as by reading popular science books written in Japanese.

Inspired by Richard Feynman's famous 1959 lecture «There's plenty of room at the bottom,» researchers are striving to build synthetic motors, machines, and robots at the micro - and nanoscale.

During this 499th Brookhaven Lecture, Dmitry Polyansky explains how artificial photosynthesis — inspired by plants» natural ability to convert sunlight to usable energy — can help meet future energy demands.

Two days with lectures, discussions, the opening of an exposition of works of art inspired by synthetic biology, and a film competition.

Stepwise synthesis of a nucleic acid to determine nucleotide sequences; inspired the DNA sequencing technique by F.Sanger (Sanger, Nobel Prize Lecture 2004).

Inspired by a dream that she had returned to work, she began to meditate on her goal of «optimal health» and a short time later attended a lecture by Victoria Smith, an alternative health practitioner from Florence, Kentucky.

Her mission is to educate, inspire & empower people to create health by authentically sharing her knowledge, expertise & experience as she travels across Canada & the U.S. offering specialty PhysioYoga Therapy workshops, presenting at international yoga therapy conferences, lecturing at medical college programs, instructing at numerous yoga therapy schools (including teaching medical therapeutic yoga to health care professionals at the Professional Yoga Therapy Institute), collaborating on Life is Now Pain Care Yoga projects, instructing at Blissology Yoga Teacher Trainings, offering individual assessments & treatments, and actively promoting the integration of yoga therapy into our current healthcare system.

Hélène's aim is to revive traditions and give them new life: she publishes unique patterns inspired by the past with a modern twist, produces specialty Icelandic yarns Love Story and Grýla, teaches, lectures and organizes hiking and knitting tours in Iceland for knitters around the globe.

Inspired by a self - help lecture called «I'm Possible,» Doris becomes re-energized with the arrival of a new co-worker John (Max Greenfield 0f New Girl), a much - younger man she immediately becomes smitten with and fantasizes about.

Inspired by an electrifying lecture by his inspirational science teacher Mr. Rzykruski (Martin Landau), Victor decides to attempt to harness the power of his town's frequent lightning strikes in an attempt to spend a little more time with his darling companion.

In Cincinnati to give a lecture inspired by one of his books, the lonely Stone quickly seeks out female companionship, first from a jilted ex-girlfriend, then from a frumpy fan, Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh), in town to hear him speak.

This week, I took a seat in the U.C.L.A. lecture hall where Professor Tananarive Due teaches «The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic,» a course inspired by Peele's zeitgeist - capturing best - picture nominee, Get Out.

These students can grow inspired by the possibility of absorbing information through online lectures and platforms, as 12 - year - old Khadija Niazi of Pakistan explained recently at the World Economic Forum.

Inspired by the Earth Charter's call to involve children in changing earth's destiny, Green Cross Japan, led by its Chief Executive Officer, Tsunehiko «Tom» Kawamoto, established a global program to teach school children «not only by lecture, but by action» on ways to protect, conserve and sustain the environment.

A recent project, for example, was inspired by Professor Randy Pausch's famous «last lecture» TED talk.

Inspired by a lecture from Albert Shanker, the longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers (whom Reichgott Junge heard describe charter schools as «the best answer so far» to the ills of the American education system) she worked with civic leaders and fellow representatives to draft and implement a bill granting greater autonomy for a subset of the North Star state's schools.

Inspired by the same body of research University of Michigan economist Sue Dynarski reviewed in her recent New York Times column, I decided to ban laptops altogether — at least during the 50 percent of class meetings that are primarily lectures.

Inspired by the inaugural Australian Learning Lecture, delivered by Sir Michael Barber, the ALL Case Studies examine how data gathered through the use of diagnostic tools in real learning experiences provides greater insight into how each student learns.

It was a challenging, thought provoking and inspiring lecture, but one which left me even more deeply troubled about the direction and pace of travel taken by the English education system — a direction and pace which is clearly unpopular with the majority of teachers and may contribute to their current exodus from the classroom.

We also helped launch the Do Book Company, a range of beautifully - designed concise guides to inspire Doers» inspired by Do Lectures and brainchild of studio homie Miranda West.

The Interpretation of Murder is inspired by the real - life mystery surrounding Freud's one and only visit to America in 1909 when he came to deliver lectures at Clark University.

For over forty years, National Trust Tours has been offering inspiring programs that uncover the traditions and unique elements of each culture through thoughtfully - planned expeditions, stimulating lectures and guidance led by expert historians and naturalists, and engaging discourse with the local communities.

I'm looking forward to see and be be inspired by the various talks and lectures!»

One of those people who regularly attended Hans Hofmann's lectures and was inspired by them was a man who would become the most controversial and influential voice in American Art in this century.

Following in the tradition of The Club (1948 — 1962), an organization on East Eighth Street, where lectures and panel discussions openly aired the debate between figuration and abstraction, and inspired by The Club's renegade members who organized The Ninth Street Show (1951), an exhibit that shook up the establishment, downtown artists developed bylaws and launched their own spaces.

This exhibition, inspired by a conversation with Ronay following his lecture at the Perez Art Museum Miami this spring, exemplifies the intention, exploration and potential behind the gallery's historical program in shaping contemporary dialogues to illuminate new facets of past and present.

This U.K. - born artist's lecture - as - perfomance was inspired by a passage in Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary where Emma Bovary's lover signs his farewell letter with a faked tear.

The Museum will celebrate The Power of Gold during the April Late Night on Friday, April 20, from 6:00 p.m. until midnight with an evening of programs inspired by the exhibition, including a talk led by Dr. Walker on the craftsmanship and context of Asante royal regalia at 7:00 p.m. Additional programs, including gallery talks, lectures, films, and programming for families, teens, and teachers will be scheduled throughout the run of the exhibition.

Courses vary on topics ranging from traditional programing, like weekly evening lectures at Cooper Union by important art thinkers and artists, to the more experimental offerings, like a course inspired by Chopped — a completive cooking show on the Food Network — where selected class members compete against one another in a reality TV - style gauntlet of hands - on, cutthroat art - making.

A rich program of exclusive lectures of leading museum directors, entrepreneurs and researchers is further extended by travels to studios of renowned and upcoming artists and inspiring labs around the world.

The Doma Gallery, New York, NY 1990 GROUP SHOW, «THE MEMORY OF LOSS» Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Sucre, Bolivia 1990 GROUP SHOW, «VOICES OF LATIN AMERICA» City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ 1989 GROUP SHOW, «PRESENCE AND PERCEPTION» LECTURES, CONFERENCES AND PUBLIC PANELS University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2011 «Education of an Architect 40 Years Later» «Hejduk, Hamlet and the Ghost Promise» 99th ACSA Annual Meeting: WHERE DO YOU STAND, Montreal, Canada 2011 Technology and Desire, co-chaired by Alberto Perez Gomez «Discreet Machines of Desire: from Edward Bernays to Robert Oppenheimer» NSF: Bridging STEM TO STEAM, Providence, RI 2011 Sponsored by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) A Gathering of leading thinkers from differing fields to inspire new collaborations among the arts / design / sciences in support of interdisciplinary STEAM learning, research and pedagogy.

The 42 - year - old Ali, whose work is often inspired by current events and often has a sociopolitical bent, will deliver the College of Fine Arts Contemporary Perspectives Lecture tonight at 6 p.m.

«Uncommon Likeness» was inspired by the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, the annual lecture series that takes place on the University of Nebraska - Lincoln campus.

Peter Saul, Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellow Monday, 27 April at 7:30 pm Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut Street campus Free and open to the public Known for his acid - hued paintings that meld cartoon imagery with biting social and political commentary, Peter Saul was inspired in the 50s and 60s as much by comic books as by the surrealists, becoming an unrelenting critic of various aspects of American culture...

The show was inspired by a series of lectures from art historian John Golding at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1997 that were compiled into a book.

Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the Dallas Museum of Art between 2009 and 2013, the volume comprises twelve beautifully illustrated essays from leading academics and museum specialists.

Youngman, a combination Ali G and Hans Ulrich Obrist, presented a slide lecture proposing that great artists, thinkers, and leaders (from Queen Victoria to Richard Prior) were, in fact, not inspired by divine providence, but rather by what he called «a secret ally»: cocaine.

Inspired by an observation by Michael Faraday (in a course of six lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle) in David Deutsch's book The Fabric of Reality that «there is no more open door by which you can enter into a study of natural philosophy than [by] considering the physical phenomena of a candle», Parreno's goal for the exhibition was to use its methods of display and artworks to explore the idea of light as an entity — one which alters what we see, and camouflages what we can not.

TALK Feb. 21: Inspired by the forthcoming debut of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), the 2015 Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series is titled «Curating Black America» and features a keynote lecture by Lonnie Bunch, founding director of Lecture Series is titled «Curating Black America» and features a keynote lecture by Lonnie Bunch, founding director of lecture by Lonnie Bunch, founding director of NMAAHC.

Enjoy concerts, performances, family activities, and Fresh Ink lectures inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking - Glass, and What Alice Found There.

These lectures were inspired by a major Rauschenberg exhibition held the same year in Beijing, at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, where Frank Yang is a board member.

Berlin Billboards Inspired by economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin's book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: the Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism is a series of connected events occurring at the Max Hetzler galleries in Berlin and Paris, plus a theatre performance at the New Theater in Berlin, as well as a lecture by Jeremy Rifkin at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, which will be followed by an interview with Rifkin by Hans Ulrich Obrist, to appear both online and in a forthcoming book based on the exhibition.

I walked away inspired by nearly all of the lectures, but