Sinclair Gibson is a senior Health Sciences major at Furman. For two years, she interned at Emory hospital in Atlanta for two years where she worked with pediatric Lupus patients, studying their quality of life post their lupus diagnosis and the impact of race on the time it takes patients to be correctly diagnosed and treated. In her talk, she ...
Chris outlines the many benefits of buying and wearing used clothing. She describes how to create a wardrobe that is both fashionable and socially responsible.
Aimed with her creative ingenuity and a thirst to bring about a change, this young delhi bred entrepreneur chased her passion at the age of 20. She started her own venture, The Education Tree which has now become the country's fastest growing youth community. Holder of master's degree of English literature and Corporate Communications, she has n...
Marin was born in Shetland, a series of remote islands in the north of Scotland. She moved to the Netherlands when she was little, but spent all of her summers on Fair Isle. This second home gave her inspiration for some of the short stories and articles she loves to write and sparked the idea for her talk. She is here to tell us what she has le...
When searching for a way to overcome the cultural differences that increasingly separate people of different ethnic, religious, life experiences and belief systems, it takes courage to consider the breaking of bread as the tool of choice. Tina Singleton launched Transformation Table, a Charleston-based organization that believes inviting strang...
It seems as if politics is more divided than ever. With polarizing debates intent on representing even the most extreme sides, they fail to yield solutions, representing no one. In his talk, Ankit discusses the issues in how we argue today and how we can improve to better debate for a brighter tomorrow.
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Facing his fear of losing out while giving up all job opportunities outside Kolkata, Anurag Singal looked for alternatives that would help him turn that fear into joy, and that's the message he wanted to deliver, "sometimes I feel that the glass half full in Kolkata was much more enriching than the one I had relinquished a decade ago".
L'intervento presenta la proposta educativa della Fondazione Sinderesi, che si pone l’obiettivo di “formare oggi le persone di domani“. La fondazione offre itinerari formativi volti a stimolare i giovani a sviluppare la capacità di elaborare un proprio giudizio sulla realtà, maturo e competente. Con l'obiettivo di contribuire alla cura della Cas...
Ravija Singal is the youngest Asian woman to win the 'Iron man' title at the slender age of 19. While the comprehensive trialathon which includes nearly 4km swimming, 180km cycling and 42km running, is to be completed in seventeen hours ,the national level swimmer Ravija, managed to complete it in just sixteen hours five minutes and forty-five s...
What does it mean to be learning diverse? Mike Jakac-Sinclair discusses learning diversity and how to open doors when the odds are stacked against you.
DHRUV SANGAL a 1st year engineering student in Mechatronics. He is a man who dreams of changing the present to future with his inventions . Besides being differently abled, Dhruv is on the way of inventing something new for welfare of society. He developed his interest in science because of his grandfather, who was a physicist and his family sup...