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The 41st mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, delivered the main address at the USC 123rd Commencement Ceremony on May 12, 2006. An engaging leader and inspiring public servant, Mayor Villaraigosa is a native Angeleno who was raised by a single mother and began working as a volunteer in the farm workers movement when he was 15 years old. He took office in July 2005 on a mayoral platform that emphasized addressing the city’s challenges in education, transportation, public safety, and economic development. His political career includes serving in the California State Assembly, where he was assembly speaker, and on the Los Angeles City Council. From the Series:USC Presents...
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Video Length: 1450
Date Found: February 12, 2009
Date Produced: May 12, 2006
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May 16, 2010
City in Five Acts: Interpreting Urban Experience You’re invited to the sixth lecture in the University of Washington's NEXT CITY: Sustainable Urbanization series. Daniel S. Friedman, Dean of the UW College of Built Environments, will deliver the Spring 2010 Provost Distinguished ...
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March 09, 2010
Understand the role information systems can play in clinical and translational research, drawing upon the experience of the Biomedical Informatics Core of the CTSA-funded Institute of Translational Health Sciences (www.iths.org). The University of Washington’s Dr. Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, ...
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October 31, 2009
Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak isn’t afraid to show the darker side of childhood. Find out what inspired his book “Where the Wild Things Are” and what made the story so groundbreaking. In this 1991 interview host Marcia Alvar also asks Sendak about other projects, including how the ...
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June 27, 2009
A love for travel inspired author and photographer Phil Borges' striking portraits of indigenous peoples around the world, but his work with various humanitarian organizations, and the creation of the non-profit Bridges to Understanding to bring digital storytelling to teens around the ...
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April 04, 2009
In this University of Maryland, Baltimore County program, Ed Beimfohr sits down with Christopher Corbett, author of "Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express," for a discussion of the beloved American myth of the Wild West. Behind the image of a lone rider ...
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