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2015

 

Brad Franklin: Hip-Hop’s Seat at the Table

Hip-hop may be the most influential genre in popular music but its artists are not always seen as community leaders in other contexts. Brad Franklin...
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Marshall Ramsey: Confessions of a Cartooning Warrior

Prolific content creators are often seen as lucky winners of the genetic talent lottery. That myth is frequently debunked by professional creatives who rely on...
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Scott Millroy: Life on Mars?

The idea of a human colony on Mars is rapidly becoming a plan. Mississippi scientist, Scott Milllroy, and his colleagues are devising a plan for...
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Alysia Burton Steele: Completing History

Alysia Burton Steele is a photojournalist and assistant professor at the Mississippi School of Journalism and New Media. Her 2015 book, Delta Jewels, chronicles the...
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LaVita Tuff: Adding Value to Voices

This informative talk explains the idea of open municipal data portals and what they are doing to modernize governance in the cities that have embraced...
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Katy Simpson Smith: How to Come Home Again

This gifted young writer shares her ideas about the relationship between self and place and the meaning that can arise when we return home in...
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Seth Misenar: Breached

Cybersecurity is one of the great challenges of our time. In fact, it seems that data breaches are not only risks that high profile companies...
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Erin Hayne: Investing in your own creative economy

As cities compete for talented young workers, many of them focus on top-down decisions and large-scale projects that cater to creatives. Erin Hayne shares her...
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Latina Rivers: Right stuff, wrong sex

The effort to narrow the gender gap in STEM careers may be misdirected. Women are far less represented in engineering than in other STEM disciplines....
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Robert Blaine: New learning environments for new brains

Technology infused learning environments are now expected but designing them is not as simple as selecting the latest gadgets. A better approach is finding a...
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