Gabriel Bol Deng, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, speaks in this TEDx talk at Bergen Community College about his journey as a refugee and building a school in his home village. Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aZJkC_wbFs
Socheata Poeuv, the founder of Khmer Legacies and director of the documentary “New Year Baby,” shares her story of survival and talks about her inspirations for her work during the Guest Lecture Series on Thursday in the Museum of Texas Tech. Read the Daily Toreador article: Museum of Texas Tech continues celebration of Asian heritage month.
Eli Kimaro‘s moving documentary about culture and gender violence, A Lot Like You, has won the Jason D Mak Award for Social Justice at the 2013 DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon: “Set mostly in Tanzania, the discoveries that Kimaro makes about her past are gripping, touching on everything from achieving the American dream to a …
Human Rights Advocate Jen Marlowe‘s short film One Family in Gaza has won an Audience Award at the Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival. Congrats, Jen! The film is about the Awajah family, and Jen is currently working on a follow up film. You can watch the short here.
We’re excited to announce Astronomer and science educator Phil Plait‘s latest space talk – this one is all about Mars and the Curiosity rover: Where has our Curiosity Taken Us? Humans have been curious about the Universe since we were capable of looking up. But we’ve only been able to travel to and explore other …
Check out this nice write up and video about astronomer Phil Plait‘s recent visit to the Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City, UT: http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/Astronomer-Phil-Plait-Speaks-at-Planetarium/S9lay-_CdkWcTlIwsNE85Q.cspx
Filmmaker Eli Kimaro, director of the documentary A Lot Like You is interviewed by Jade Magazine, where she answers questions about being bi-racial, how her film opens dialogue about gender violence and culture, and what’s on her plate now.
Gabriel Bol Deng, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, founded the Hope for Ariang Foundation in 2007 to build a primary school in his home village of Ariang, in what is now South Sudan. Gabriel brings us this update: “I am pleased to report that these three individuals pictured are among the 22 students …
Irreverent astronomer and science promoter Phil Plait has one of the 140 Best Twitter Feeds according to Time Magazine: “Slate‘s resident astronomy blogger brings a sense of humor to prolific space coverage.” We knew that already, but congrats, Phil!
While giving his “Death from the Skies!” lecture, astronomer Phil Plait gets the first-hand experience with “Crushing and Zapping and Impacting” at the Engineering Open House run by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Engineering department: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/31/_engineering_open_house _at_uiuc_crushing_concrete_musical_tesla_coils_and.html