Theme: Adventure

Come join us for the 2nd annual TEDxUniversityofDelaware on April 22, 2019 focused on Adventure! Tickets are available at the Trabant Ticket Office (17 W. Main Street, Newark DE 19716) Ticket prices are $5.00 with student ID and $10.00 for all others.

Gore Recital Hall
110 Orchard Rd
Newark, Delaware, 19716
United States

Art Trembanis

Associate Professor, College of Earth, Ocean & Environment, University of Delaware

Art Trembanis is an oceanographer at the University of Delaware where he develops and utilizes advanced autonomous systems to map and explore oceans and lakes around the world filling in blank spots on the map. His passion for exploration has led to discoveries ranging from ancient shipwrecks to modern aircraft and unraveling environmental mysteries along the way. When he isn’t chasing robots around in the field he enjoys travel with his family and mentoring the next generation of environmental roboticists.

Cole Galloway

Professor, Dept of Physical Therapy Biomechanics and Movement Sciences Program University of Delaware

A “blue collar futurist” approach guides Cole's interdisciplinary research and development work. As founder of the Go Baby Go "movement", he works with the +110 GBG chapters worldwide to help children and adults co-create their lives through mobility.

Katie Manta

Student

Katie Manta is a senior Elementary Education Major with a Middle School Science Concentration. Driven by values of kindness, empowerment and growth her dream is to create a classroom where each student knows how important they are.

Nana Ohemaa Asante

Student

A Ghanaian immigrant, Nana Ohemaa Asante is a sophomore Honors student at the University of Delaware pursuing a degree in Medical Diagnostics and double minoring in Writing and Biology. She has a passion for writing and performing poetry, and does her best to find different opportunities to share her art.

Saleem Ali

Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware

Saleem H. Ali researches novel pathways to govern our planet's natural resources so as to ensure economic and ecological efficiency and to promote international cooperation. In this quest, he has traveled to 145 countries so far and continues to be humbled by his observations of human ingenuity in harnessing natural resources.

Sarah Baker Andrus

Assistant Director Lerner Career Services Center, University of Delaware

Sarah Baker Andrus is Assistant Director of Lerner Career Services at the University of Delaware. She has worked on all sides of the hiring equation – as a career coach, the leader of a large corporate recruiting function and a hiring manager herself – and she’s committed to helping others find a great career fit.

Steven Mortenson

Associate Professor of Communications - University of Delaware

Dr. Steve Mortenson is passionate about empowering others by teaching ideas and concepts that have empowered him. He has teaches seminars on skillful communication and the challenge of the shadow for students and staff here at UD, and professionals at Gore, Amtrak, and Christiana Hospital.