TEDxColumbiaSC

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📣📣Hey, y’all! TEDxUofSC is TODAY (Wednesday) and you can watch it here on the Facebook! Beginning at 11:30 am and lasting about 90 minutes, TEDxUofSC is playing on the University of South Carolina’s page via Facebook Live. It’s TEDx in the time of COVID-19!

Please join in this free event and learn about some of your amazing Midlands neighbors.

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Hey, y'all! The time is upon us to nominate speakers for TEDxUofSC 2020! Who is changing the way we see ourselves, our community, and our world? Who has new research, a new organization, a new product?

TEDx returns to UofSC in October The University of South Carolina will host its second TEDx event, TEDxUofSC, on Oct. 15. TEDxUofSC will feature eight speakers that each have an idea worth sharing to better the community.

Sarah Simmons is combining vocational pathways and laminated dough. Who's hungry?

Building a restaurant where the community is the customer | Sarah Simmons | TEDxUofSC An accomplished restaurateur in New York City and Columbia, S.C., Sarah Simmons is revolutionizing the traditional restaurant model. Simmons is the CEO of CI...

Dr. David Matolak is making the friendly skies even friendlier.

He’s making waves — better and safer radio communication waves, that is | David Matolak | TEDxUofSC There’s a ton of information floating through the air — so much, in fact, that it can get pretty cluttered and hard to manage, which can make things like air...

Dr. Ronda Hughes is using big data to improve your health.

Improving health outcomes with big data | Ronda Hughes | TEDxUofSC Health care has taken tremendous strides in recent decades. So has technology. And so has the data available to researchers. Professor and researcher Ronda H...

TEDxUofSC speaker Kimani Davis spoke about the role we each play in helping formerly incarcerated citizens re-enter society and build positive futures.

Would you hire a formerly incarcerated person? A lesson in second chances | Kimani Davis | TEDxUofSC Kimani Davis’ professional path to founding his own contracting and consulting firm began nearly 20 years ago, and there’s no end in sight, but his story beg...

As we head into the end of the year and make plans for 2019, we hope you'll enjoy this talk by Shigeharu Kobayashi, challenging us to reconsider how we define and approach "problems."

What is a “baker’s dozen”? Creativity and problem-solving at work | Shigeharu Kobayashi | TEDxUofSC Shigeharu (Shige) Kobayashi, artist, boundary pusher and above-average waiter, likes to think differently, and he wants you to, as well. In this TEDxUofSC ta...

Dr. Parry Hashemi's work gives hopes to millions living with depression and other mental health conditions. Listen to her speak about the breakthroughs in her lab, right here at the University of South Carolina.

What if a simple skin test could help diagnose and treat depression? | Parry Hashemi | TEDxUofSC One in five Americans is prescribed anti-depressants, but the medications are ineffective most of the time. Professor and researcher Parastoo (Parry) Hashemi...

Have you fallen, and you can't get up? Dr. Juan Caidedo has you covered.

Helping your house feel good (and bad) vibrations | Juan M. Caicedo | TEDxUofSC If you wanted to call Juan M. Caicedo a mover and a shaker, you’d be right. And it’s all in the name of science — and safety. A professor and the University ...

Derek Black wants us to think more critically to discern fact, nuance and noise in the "news" we encounter daily.

A well-informed citizenry: fact vs fiction in American media, then and now | Derek Black | TEDxUofSC Modern technology practically gives us all the information in the world at our fingertips. But that’s a double-edged sword. How do we know what we’re looking...

TEDxUofSC speaker Kassy Alia spoke with the audience about building authentic trust between law enforcement and the rest of the community. We were grateful for her thoughts.

Reaching across the police/community divide to let love lead | Kassy Alia | TEDxUofSC Great things are often born out of tragedy. Nobody understands that more than Kassy Alia, who lost her husband, Greg, a police officer who was killed in the ...