TEDxBinghamtonUniversity 2018
Ideas worth spreading came to campus this weekend. TEDxBinghamtonUniversity was held on Sunday, March 25 in the Anderson Center, and our staff was there to cover the popular annual event. We sat down with the speakers hours before the show to interview them and learned about their lives, passions and talks, and how they are striving to make an infinite difference, in Binghamton and beyond.
Raj Jayadev is the co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley De-Bug, a community-organizing organization in San Jose, California that advocates for the least visible residents of Silicon Valley and works to change the social and political landscape of the area. Through Silicon Valley De-Bug, Jayadev also works with the Albert Cobarrubias Justice Project, which developed a methodology known as participatory defense to help families and communities advocate for their loved ones in the criminal justice system.
Read more
Pipe Dream spoke with Stone Geise, a student speaker at TEDxBinghamtonUniversity. Geise, a senior majoring in biochemistry, hopes to become a physician, and will be focusing his talk on living a healthier, better life, both mentally and physically.
Read more
Devan Tracy, ’13, is a singer-songwriter, cyclist and energy engineer at Lockheed Martin with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Binghamton University and a master’s in sustainable systems engineering from the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Her talk, titled “The Extinction of Sustainability,” discusses her goal of creating a world where efforts to create a more sustainable future are commonplace.
Read more
Pipe Dream sat down with Richard Kriepe, a board-certified pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist at the University of Rochester whose research focuses on eating disorders in adolescence from a developmental point of view.
Read more
Pipe Dream sat down with Derek Thompson, a senior editor for The Atlantic and the author of the national best-selling book “Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction.” His TEDxBinghamtonUniversity talk, “The science of popularity,” focuses on the idea that most popular products are both novel and familiar, and how this idea can be used to make hits.
Read more
Hours before TEDxBinghamtonUniversity, Pipe Dream spoke with Winter Clark, the host of this year’s event and a senior double-majoring in philosophy and the individualized major program.
Read more
Pipe Dream sat down with Andrew Taggart, a practical philosopher and an entrepreneur who graduated from the University of Wisconsin—Madison with a Ph.D. in philosophy. Taggart leads a seasonally nomadic lifestyle in which he lives part of the year in a remote area and part of the year in an urban area. He also mentors people on how to live “the most excellent human life.”
Read more
Pipe Dream sat down with Sarah Dudas, a biologist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, a biology professor at Vancouver Island University and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Victoria. Dudas also leads the Ecological Interactions Research Program, which studies costal ecosystems. Her work specifically focuses on microplastics and their impact on these systems.
Read more