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07/31/2015

"The cyberthreats of tomorrow won't just make our information unsafe, they could make our physical world unsafe too."
-Amy Zegar, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Co-Director of Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), outlines the five reasons cyberthreats are unlike any other national security threat we've faced before.

07/29/2015

"I wanted to know how people learn to interact with God. I knew that they learned because newcomers would come to these churches and say, 'God doesn't talk to me.' Six to nine months later they would say, 'I recognize God's voice the way I recognize my mom's voice on the phone.'"
-Professor Tanya Luhrmann during her 2015 talk about her anthropological research into how people experience God.

07/27/2015

"I was captivated by how the brain wires itself during development and particularly how it is and why it is that the child's brain seems like such an amazing sponge."
-Professor Carla Shatz during her 2015 talk on her groundbreaking research into rewiring the brain.

07/24/2015

"We are not at the center of the universe. Amazingly, 500 years later, the social sciences are still relying on a similar kind of assumption."
-Brian Epstein during his 2015 talk on how we can change the way social sciences look at the world

07/17/2015

Frank Olivier, in an amazing feat of juggling and comedy at 2015, demonstrates why the front row gets all the fun.

07/15/2015

"Even though there are no unplanned pregnancies in a gay relationship, parenting is all about dancing with that which is unknown, unplanned, and unpredictable."
-J.D. Schramm during his 2015 talk on the long road towards adopting a child

07/03/2015

"In the same way that medical imaging has revolutionized our approach to human health, I am convinced that earth imaging can revolutionize our approach to a freshwater future."
-Professor of Geophysics Rosemary Knight during her 2015 talk on how technology is allowing us to see water deep underground.

06/29/2015

"It's never too late to be who you are."
-Hoover Institution Research Fellow Alice Miller during her 2015 talk about deciding to transition from male to female at the age of 50.

And for our last speaker at this year’s TEDxStanford Conference, Yubing Zhang is a first-year MBA student at Stanford Un...
05/16/2015

And for our last speaker at this year’s TEDxStanford Conference, Yubing Zhang is a first-year MBA student at Stanford University. A series of transformational moments have led Zhang to completely change her understanding of fear and courage, redefine her comfort zones and push herself to the edge. She has experienced the unlimited potential that exists when we break through our comfort zones, and is dedicated to inspiring others to do the same. She has lived in six different countries and worked in four different industries and holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Oxford and a bachelor's degree from the University of Hong Kong. Zhang has served as an entrepreneur for the Bank of China, launched a vocational training program for victims of domestic abuse in Cambodia and founded a platform that supports and coaches everyday people to share their passion, ideas and extraordinary stories through talks and performances.

Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. Her work focuses on th...
05/16/2015

Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. Her work focuses on the way that objects without material presence come to seem real to people, and the way that ideas about the mind affect mental experience. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and received a John Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007. When God Talks Back was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. It also was awarded the 2014 Grawemeyer Award for the best book in religion, from the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Tanvi Jayaraman is a junior at Stanford University studying human biology. Her previous work with special-needs girls in...
05/16/2015

Tanvi Jayaraman is a junior at Stanford University studying human biology. Her previous work with special-needs girls in Coimbatore, India, and a trip to rural Nicaragua contribute to her unique perspective on how small-scale efforts can create meaningful social change. She recently coordinated the first university-wide bystander intervention training initiative titled, "Stanford, It's On Us: We Will Not Standby," as the Susan Heck intern at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, which piloted the national "It's On Us" campaign at Stanford. She hopes to take forward her passion for women's health, and continue to support issues of community and domestic violence, mental health and identity through such initiatives.

Rosemary Knight is a professor of geophysics in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and senior fellow, ...
05/16/2015

Rosemary Knight is a professor of geophysics in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and senior fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment. Knight's passion is Earth imaging – how to use advanced technologies to see below the ground, to depths of hundreds of meters. The founding director of the Center for Groundwater Evaluation and Management, she works with her research group and other collaborators to find new ways of mapping and monitoring our groundwater resources. After obtaining her doctorate in geophysics at Stanford, she joined the faculty at the University of British Columbia, returning to Stanford in 2000.

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