Three St. Cloud State University professors are among the seven area professionals who will present at the virtual TEDxStCloud Oct. 8.
Dr. Matthew Davis, Dr. Jennifer Lamb and Dr. Christopher Lehman will speak from the Paramount Theatre stage during the event at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 8. Their presentations will be streamed live on the TEDxStCloud website and VR. The theme for the fourth TEDxStCloud is Metamorph.
The event is free to view this year. In a typical year admission is $45. To register, go to TEDxStCloud.com and hit the registration button.
“Thanks to our partners, we are able to provide free access for the online event,” said Brian Hart, a TEDxStCloud planner. “If students have been curious about TEDxStCloud in the past, but the ticket cost got in the way, this is a perfect opportunity to experience our event.”
Lehman is a professor of ethnic studies at St. Cloud State and chair of the Department of Ethnic, Gender and Women’s Studies. He is the author of six books including “Slavery’s Reach”, which one a Minnesota Book Award earlier this year.
Davis and Lamb are associate professors of biology at St. Cloud State and will co-present. Davis’ work examines the patterns and processes of evolution in marine environments and evolutionary adaptations to those habitats including bioluminescence and biofluoresence. Lamb’s work explores the biology, ecology and history of amphibians. Her current research focuses on the understudied area of biofluorescence in amphibians.
Additional TEDxStCloud presenters include:
- Dr. Kathleen Allen, author of “Leading from the Roots: Nature Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today’s World” and has written widely on leadership and change. She is president of Allen and Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in leadership coaching, innovation and organizational change in philanthropic, non-profit and for-profit organizations.
- Precious Drew, director of gBETA Greater MN St. Cloud.
- Dr Kathy Kulus, medical director of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at St. Cloud Hospital co-presenting with Dr. John Mahowald, CentraCare Heart & Vascular Center cardiologist.
- There are over 3,000 TEDx events each year, in over 170 countries. On average, on any day of the year, across the globe, there are about 100 TEDx events being presented.
- TED Talks surpassed 3 billion views online in 2016. TED and TEDx talks have a unique format and provide “fuel” for global thinking.
- Local ideas can really get a lot of exposure from the TEDxStCloud stage. A 2018 TEDxStCloud speaker, Eric Sannerud’s talk “Without farmers you’d be hungry, naked and sober” has just shy of 1,600,000 views.
- There is always an incredible range of topics and speakers at TEDx events. Science, business, leadership, health, and social justice are on this year’s program at TEDxStCloud.
