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Listen to the talk: Read a post related to the event Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate and graduate years were spent at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his PhD in linguistics in 1955. During the years 1951 to 1955, Chomsky was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows. While a Junior Fellow he completed his doctoral dissertation...

Watch the talk: Learn more about Prince Reza Pahlavi and his cause. Reza Pahlavi was born in Tehran, Iran on October 31, 1960 to the late Shah of Iran and Empress Farah Pahlavi. As Crown Prince of Iran and the oldest of four siblings, he left Iran at the age of 17 for air force training, during which time the establishment of the clerical regime in Iran prevented his...

Watch the talk: Read student Hannah’s account of the talk, “Greg Simon intrigues the mind of a keen adolescent.” Greg Simon has held senior positions in both chambers of Congress and the White House, been a senior strategy consultant to a variety of international technology CEO’s, led a national patient advocacy nonprofit he co-founded with Mike Milken and served as a senior executive at a large pharmaceutical corporation. He has...

Listen to Lucy's talk  Lucy Alibar is a writer from the Florida panhandle. Her plays include "Juicy and Delicious" (Collective Unconscious/The TANK), "A Friend of Dorothy" (Avignon, Montreal Fringe), "Lightning/Picnic", "Mommy Says I'm Pretty on the Insides", and "Christmas and Jubilee Behold the Meteor Shower". She wrote her first screenplay, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (an adaptation of her stage play, "Juicy and Delicious" in a Louisiana fishing marina with...

With a combined 45 years of experience in the field of reporting between them, BBC correspondents Richard Lister and Philippa Thomas are no strangers to the harsh realities encountered during the news gathering process. Lister and Thomas draw upon these experiences to help explain the role that citizen journalism has come to play in the 21st century media and to provide insight into the ethical and moral dilemmas they have...

Listen to BBC correspondents Richard Lister and Philippa Thomas explain the role that citizen journalism has come to play in the 21st century media and to provide insight into the ethical and moral dilemmas they have encountered while collecting footage for global coverage. Richard Lister has been a BBC journalist for twenty-five years and has reported in fifty countries. Lister files for television, radio, and the web, as well as...

Read about our students overcoming their nerves at the Gotham Comedy Club Taylor Mali is one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and one of the original poets to appear on the HBO series “Def Poetry Jam.” A four-time National Poetry Slam champion, he is the author of two collections of poetry and a book of essays, “What Teachers Make: In Praise of...

Read a post related to the event Elected U.S. Soccer President in 2006 and re-elected in 2010, Sunil Gulati has more than 30 years of experience at all levels of soccer in the United States and has helped the sport rise to new heights. The native of Allahabad, India, has played an important role in the development of U.S. Soccer since the early 1980’s and has been intimately involved in...

Watch a video of our students working with Doug Lanksy: -GRTKIWc To date, Doug has been on the road for roughly 10 years and has visited more than 100 countries. As America’s youngest nationally syndicated columnist, his weekly “Vagabond” column grew to reach more than 10 million readers in 40 major North American newspapers. Doug has since written a weekly travel column for The Guardian, taught journalism at Colorado College,...

Read Theory of Knowledge teacher Russell Cailey’s reflection about his visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Jacqueline was born on April 23, 1935 in Paris, France. Her father, Frits, ran a food import-export business and her mother, Ellen, took care of Jacqueline and her older sister, Manuela. Jacqueline had a normal childhood before the outbreak of the war in 1939, but everything changed in May 1940 when Germany invaded France....