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Session 1 Speakers
Dr. Dan Ariely│Chase Whiteside & Erick Stoll│Dr. Christina Cowger│
Dr. Toddi Steelman│Jeff Huber│
Session 2 Speakers
Kathleen Griffin│Dr. Stacy Wood│Dr. Tim Wallace│Dr. Michael Steer│
Panoramic Dance Project│Garik Sadovy
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Session 1
Speaker Bios
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Dr. Dan Ariely
Behavioral Economics, Duke University
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Dan Ariely is the James B Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Economics Department and Senior Fellow in the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. As a behavioral economist, he studies how people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed to how they should or would perform if they were completely rational. His work has been published in leading psychology, economics, and business journals, and he serves on a number of editorial | | review boards. Dan recently wrote a general audience book on Behavioral Economics Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions. He is also a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight, and President elect of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Tel Aviv University, a master’s and doctorate degree in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a doctorate in Business Administration from Duke University. He is currently working on a new book titled Dining Without Crumbs: The Art of Eating Over the Sink.
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Chase Whiteside & Erick Stoll
New Left Media
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New Left Media is a two-person documentary production team working out of Yellow Springs, Ohio, best known for their coverage of the evolving conservative movement during Barack Obama’s presidency, which IndieWire called “a perfect example of where documentary form and style is headed.” Since starting in September 2009 in response to the raucous healthcare town hall that threatened to derail reform, their short films have been seen online more than six-million times. They are currently writing a book about the deteriorating state of the news media to be published by Picador.
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Dr. Christina Cowger
Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University
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Christina Cowger is a Raleigh mother of two, a PhD plant pathologist, and a volunteer in North Carolina Stop Torture Now, a statewide coalition of people concerned about North Carolina’s key role in the transport of detainees in the “war on terror” to overseas torture chambers.
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Dr. Toddi Steelman
Environmental and Natural Resource Policy, North Carolina State University
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Dr. Toddi Steelman is professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Policy within the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on improving the governance of environmental and natural resources, with an interest in science, policy and decision making interactions. Current and past projects have | | included watershed remediation and management, land and open space protection, national forest planning and community forestry, wildfire and biodiversity conservation. In 2008, she was a Fulbright Scholar to Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, where she worked on biodiversity conservation issues in the greater Vancouver region. She is the author of Implementing Innovation: Facilitating Enduring Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Governance (Georgetown University Press, 2010). She is the co-author of Knowledge in the Environmental Policy Process: Reimagining the Role for Science and Politics (MIT Press, 2010), Collaborative Environmental Management: What Role for Government? (Resources for the Future, 2004), and Adaptive Governance: Integrating Science, Policy and Decision Making (Columbia University Press, 2005) and numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is currently the editor in chief of the journal Policy Sciences.
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Jeff Huber
Senior - Industrial Engineering & Economics, North Carolina State University
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Jeff Huber is a senior studying Industrial Engineering and Economics. He is interested in a wide variety of topics including design, technology, psychology, teaching, writing and entrepreneurship. Jeff is also a photographer and his photographs are featured throughout his talk. In the spring of 2010, Jeff spent five months living in Copenhagen to experience Danish culture and its significance to his heritage.
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Session 2
Speaker Bios
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Kathleen Griffin
Senior - International Studies, North Carolina State University
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Kathleen is a senior majoring in International Studies and plans to graduate in May 2011. She has served as Co-Chair of Nourish International and Vice President of the International Studies Club. She is a Park Scholar and a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. She studied in Cairo, Egypt, Accra, Ghana, and conducted anthropological research in Florence, Italy. After graduation Kathleen plans to pursue a career in community development.
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Dr. Stacy Wood
Marketing, North Carolina State University
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Dr. Stacy Wood joined N.C. State’s College of Management this fall as the J. Lloyd Langdon Distinguished Professor of Marketing. Wood received her Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Florida in 1998. Wood’s key areas of research focus on consumer innovation, new product design and adoption, and consumer response to technology advances. Wood plans to establish an interdisciplinary research and learning center focused more broadly on consumer innovation at the NC State College of Management. This center will bring together cutting-edge academic research in consumer behavior and innovation management with companies | | that excel in innovation and demonstrate a strong focus on consumer understanding.
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Dr. Tim Wallace
Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University
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Dr. Tim Wallace is an associate professor and applied anthropologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Dr. Wallace’s research concerns the role of cultural heritage as expressed through cultural tourism as a constant element in identity stability in human societies. Tourism is thought to have a disruptive effect on indigenous identity, but his research contributes to the idea travel and tourism is a constant and should be seen like other normal factors in life as common as religion or politics. His research has taken him to a various overseas sites including Madagascar to do an impact assessment for a Duke University-NCSU eco-tourism project, to Mozambique | | to study maize marketing, and to Ecuador for a potato marketing project, among others. He has been President of the Southern Anthropological Association and the Association of North Carolina Anthropologists, is a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and editor of the Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. He has been awarded two Senior Fulbrights: once to Peru and more recently to Guatemala.
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Dr. Michael Steer
Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University
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Michael Steer is the Lampe Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. He received his B.E. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He is a systems engineer with emphasis on developing and transitioning system concepts for electronic systems, particularly defense systems. In 2009 he received a military medal awarded to a private citizen, the Commander’s Award For Public Service from the Commanding General of the | | U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command. This was for his work on developing, and transitioning to the field “important electronic warfare applications in support of the warfighter.”
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Panoramic Dance Project
Soccer Symphony
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One of two student dance companies in the NC State Dance Program, Panoramic Dance Project (PDP) performs choreographic works with world dance perspectives created by director Autumn Mist Belk, invited guest artists, and students. In addition to the choreographic works they perform, students in PDP also take dance technique classes in various world dance forms including traditional African, Indian, Native American, and hula dance as well as the more contemporary styles of modern, jazz, hip-hop and Capoeira. Visit
ncsu.edu/dance for more information.
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Garik Sadovy
Senior - Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University
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As a student at NC State Univerity, Garik Sadovy investigates how education can best serve students. He teaches seminars for the University Honors Program in alternative personal and professional development, promoting entrepreneurial ideals and self experimentation. Drawing from a wide array of collegiate experiences, ranging from viral engineering research to shepherding through Croatia, Garik promotes a student initiated revolution to enhance the value of a college education for the leaders of the future. More at gariksadovy.com
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