50 TED Talks for ECPI University Students

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

― Albert Einstein

Education shouldn't stop when a student leaves the classroom. Here at ECPI University we encourage students to keep up with their fields of study and always think out of the box. TED Talks have grown in popularity over the recent years for their creative thinking, individual views, careful research, and powerful stories.

As ECPI University celebrates 50 years of education and forward thinking, here are 50 TED Talks, each one related to a field of study ECPI University offers. No matter your career path, there is something here to help you learn and grow in your personal life and your professional life.

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TED Talks for Nursing Students

Healthcare is a hot topic in the United States. With an aging Baby Boomer population needing more and more services and people living longer than ever before, there has to be not only people to treat individuals, but also people to invent better and more efficient ways to utilize this care. Here are 10 talks for nursing students to help them learn more about their field and the creative ideas they will need to be successful in it.

1. Eric Dishman: Take healthcare off the mainframe

2. Peter Saul: Let's talk about dying

3. Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?

4. Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don't work anymore?

5. Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds

6. Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research

7. Robert Thurman: Expanding your circle of compassion

8. Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives

9. Laurel Braitman: Depressed dogs, cats with OCD – what animal madness means for us humans

10. Rishi Manchanda: What makes us get sick? Look upstream

TED Talks for Criminal Justice Students

Many people think of criminal justice as simply policing those who break the law. But these TED Talks look into what causes people to do so and how to do deal with them after they have committed a crime. With experience and honesty, these speakers discuss sensitive topics such as juvenile crime and the way individuals are treated inside of the criminal justice system.

11. Adam Foss: A prosecutor's vision of a better justice system

12. Anne Milgram: Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime

13. Alice Goffman: How we're priming some kids for college – and others for prison

14. Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers!

15. Noy Thrupkaew: Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works

TED Talks for Culinary Students

Surely cooking is simply preparing food, right? Beyond adding two cups of flour and one egg, cooking is about society, culture, and the environment. Here are some TED Talks about not only the culinary arts, but how food impacts the people who eat it and more than that, the world it's raised on.

16. Dan Barber: A foie gras parable

17. Jennifer 8. Lee: The hunt for General Tso

18. Stephen Ritz: A teacher growing green in the South Bronx

19. Paul Greenberg: The four fish we're overeating – and what to eat instead

20. Peter Reinhart: The art and craft of bread

21. Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche: Cooking as alchemy

22. Florian Pinel: The future of food: Cognitive cooking

23. Nathan Myhrvold: Cooking as never seen before

24. Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat

25. Ann Cooper: What's wrong with school lunches

TED Talks for Business Students

When it comes to business there are dozens of TED Talks. Business students' career field is part of the global economy, fueled by ever-changing technology. Here are just a few talks about how business, technology, and humanity intertwine to create the world we live in.

26. Kevin Kelly: How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution

27. David Autor: Why are there still so many jobs?

28. Courtney Martin: The new American Dream

29. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How Africa can keep rising

30. Don Tapscott: How the blockchain is changing money and business

TED Talks for Health Science Students

The world of health science is constantly changing. New theories, medicines, and ideas are being thought up every day. If you want to help improve the lives of those who you provided services to, it's important to make sure you know the latest innovations in your field and understand how you can help change someone's life.

31. Emily Oster: Flip your thinking on AIDS in Africa

32. Larry Brilliant: My wish: Help me stop pandemics

33. Seth Berkley: The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late … if they're made at all

34. Ivan Oransky: Are we over-medicalized?

35. Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe

36. Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds

37. Gregory Petsko: The coming neurological epidemic

38. Francis Collins: We need better drugs – now

39. Ernest Madu: World-class health care

40. Ellen 't Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives

TED Talks for Technology Students

Technology is a favorite topic among TED presenters. With over 1,000 talks and hundreds of speakers, TED Talks about technology are diverse as the field itself. Here are just a few talks to spark your interest in the vast world of techno TED Talks.

41. Kevin Kelly: How technology evolves

42. Ray Kurzweil: The accelerated power of technology

43. Vinay Venkatraman: Technology crafts for the digitally underserved

44. Caleb Harper: The computer will grow your food in the future

45. Nina Tandon: Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?

46. Tal Danino: Programming bacteria to detect cancer (and maybe treat it)

47. James Veitch: This is what happens when you reply to spam email

48. John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform creative leaders

49. Nir Eyal: What makes some technology so habit-forming?

50. Jason Pontin: Can technology solve our big problems?

Are you inspired by these TED Talks? ECPI University offers degrees in the field of criminal justice, business, nursing, health science, technology, and culinary arts. If you would like to learn more and speak with an admissions advisor today, contact ECPI University immediately to get connected.

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