Theme: New Horizons

TEDxGreenhillSchool is an independently organized, TEDx event geared toward the Greenhill School community in Dallas, TX.

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Marshall Family Performing Arts Center at the Greenhill School
4141 Spring Valley Rd.
Addison, Texas, 75001
United States

Brian Stump

Albritton Professor of Earth Sciences at the SMU Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Brian Stump joined the faculty of Department of Geological Sciences at Southern Methodist University in 1983 and now holds the Albritton Chair of Geological Sciences. Stump was the 2004 Dedman Family Distinguished Professor and in 2006 was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Perrine Prize. Brian’s research focuses on the utilization of waves in the atmosphere and the solid earth as tools for assessing both the material through which the waves propagate as well as the characteristics of the source that generates the waves and has led to in excess of 100 contributions. His initial work focusing on seismic waveforms from nuclear explosions found application in identification, location and yield determination and motivated his contribution to the test ban treaty negotiations. He and his graduate students have had a continuously, well-funded research program for over 25 years. He also contributes in this area as the Chair of the Department of Defense Seismic Review Panel.

Byron Sanders

Vice President at US Trust

By day, Byron Sanders serves as Vice President for U.S. Trust, the private bank of Bank of America. In this role, he is responsible for connecting high net worth individuals and institutions to solutions that accomplish their financial goals. By other parts of the day, he lives in his purpose of helping build systems of hope through education transformation and urban equity policy. A Greenhill alum, he’s been recognized in the Dallas Business Journal as a recipient of honors as one of the city’s Top Forty Under 40 and Minority Business Leaders Award, a Dallas and Convention Visitors Bureau BIG Influencer, Who’s Who in Black Dallas, and a TEDx speaker.

Greenhill Dance Company

Dance Company at Greenhill School

The Upper School Dance Company at the Greenhill School, led by instructor Ms. Kelly McCain

Greenhill Improv Troupe

Improv Troupe at Greenhill School

The Improv Troupe at the Greenhill School, led by Mr. Henry Paolissi

John Hoffman

Physics Department Head and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies for the School Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Hoffman (Ph.D. in Physics, University of Minnesota, 1958) spent 7 years at the US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, developing miniature instrumentation to study the composition of the earth's upper atmosphere and ionosphere using rockets and satellites. He then joined the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest, predecessor to UT Dallas, in 1966. His research has centered around designing and producing miniature mass spectrometers for space missions to study planetary atmospheres, particularly the composition of the neutral and ionic constituents. Experiments have been developed and flown on many earth orbiting satellites, Apollos 15, 16, and 17 flights to the moon, Pioneer Venus Sounder Probe, GIOTTO spacecraft to Halley's comet and the Phoenix mission to Mars. This was the first actual detection of water on the planet.

Mansi Kumar

Graduating Senior at the Greenhill School

Mansi Kumar is a graduating senior at the Greenhill School. Her TEDxGreenhillSchool talk will be centered around embarrassment and compassion: embarrassment may seem like a focal point for shame, but if you delve into it and look at the vulnerability it create, you will learn that embarrassment is indeed an asset to cultivating character.