IDEAS UMass Boston

12/22/2017

2005 IDEAS UMass Boston Speaker Melinda Lopez will be starring in the one-woman show that she wrote, Mala, January 6-28 at the Huntington Theatre Company.

Funny, brutally honest, and ultimately cathartic, Mala puts a sharp focus on what it means to put our loved ones first, right to the very end, and what happens when we strive to be good but don’t always succeed. Named one of the best plays of the year by The Boston Globe, WBUR’s The ARTery, and ...

10/13/2017

2015 IDEAS UMass Boston alumnus Bill Brah, the executive director of UMass Boston's Venture Development Center, took part in one of this week's HUBweek panels. UMass Boston's Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence program provides visa sponsorship to international entrepreneurs.

“How to Attract Global Entrepreneurs to Boston” was part of HUBweek.

10/03/2017

UMass Boston is participating in HUBweek 2017! Join us at these free events!

HUBweek is a creative festival that celebrates innovation at the intersection of art, science, and technology.

03/13/2017

2015 IDEAS UMass Boston Speaker Ashleigh Gordon will be taking part in a talkback following Huntington Theatre's Topdog/Underdog on Tuesday, April 4.

In conjunction with its upcoming production of Topdog/Underdog the Huntington Theatre Company will host a number of special events and post-show conversations. Admission to onsite post-show events is free with a ticket to Topdog/Underdog, available at huntingtontheatre.org/topdog by phone at 617 266...

12/05/2016

Did you miss IDEAS UMass Boston 2016? Now you can watch all of our speaker and panel presentations on our YouTube channel!

Using video games to challenge biases. Giving mobile devices to mental health patients to create therapeutic images. Drawing inspiration from nurses in devel...

11/18/2016

Pick up a copy of today's Boston Business Journal and look for our IDEAS UMass Boston supplement! You'll find write-ups of all of the speakers at last month's conference.

11/02/2016

It's hard to believe it's been a full week since IDEAS! Check out some of our photos and look for more in our upcoming supplement in the Boston Business Journal.

IDEAS UMass Boston hosted six speakers and the Boston Globe Spotlight Team for this year's annual conference, held October 26 in the UMass Boston Campus Center. Callie Crossley, host of Under the Radar with Callie Crossley, served as moderator. https://www.umb.edu/ideas/

11/02/2016

IDEAS UMass Boston hosted six speakers and the Boston Globe Spotlight Team for this year's annual conference, held October 26 in the UMass Boston Campus Center. Callie Crossley, host of Under the Radar with Callie Crossley, served as moderator. https://www.umb.edu/ideas/

10/26/2016

Our luncheon panel with The Boston Globe Spotlight Team is under way. Editor Scott Allen: "We are seeking hidden truths. We are sometimes speaking truth to power." And on the Academy Award-winning film: "If you saw the movie, you actually saw a remarkable representation of what we kind of do every day."

10/26/2016

Laura Ligouri, the director and founder of Mindbridge, after talking about how video games can turn biases around because players project themselves onto a character: "The thing about a good idea is that it illuminates everything else around it."

10/26/2016

Jose Gomez-Marquez of the Little Devices Lab at MIT says 90 percent of medical technology that ends up in developing countries is donated, but most fail within 6 months because they weren't designed to operate in these environments. Check out the broken pieces below. Turns out - people in those countries were already working to get around these broken machines. Gomez-Marquez went out to find the "MacGyver doctors" who had developed these hacks and found out they were actually nurses. He's talking about how he learned from them right now at IDEAS UMass Boston.

10/26/2016

IDEAS UMass Boston is about to begin! Be sure to follow us here and on Twitter throughout the day. Here in the audience? Use the hashtag to submit your questions on Twitter and share your photos of the day on Instagram. Our first speaker is Digital Healer Steven Koppel of The EDI Institute.

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