One course in particular captured his imagination: a lecture series on building machines that could manipulate molecules.
Built in the same grand neoclassical style as the rest of the development, the Hall originally boasted a gymnasium, library, billiards room and a series of lecture theatres and meeting room for residents to enjoy for recreation.
As her blog and research collection grew, Ebenstein created the Morbid Anatomy Library, a 300sqft space open to the public one day a week, and launched a related lecture and workshop series called Morbid Anatomy Presents in 2009.
After leaving office, in 2002, he started a consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, and embarked on a series of highly lucrative lecture tours, commanding the transportation (Gulfstream IV), the accommodation (a two-bedroom suite, plus four rooms for his entourage), and the remuneration (up to a hundred thousand dollars per appearance) accorded only to the highest tier.
When Boyden arrived at Georgia Tech in February to give a lecture in the "Young Innovators" series, his puffy North Face jacket, slightly tousled curly locks and frizzy beard contrasted with Forest's pressed suit, lilac collared shirt and short salt-and-pepper hair -- almost like an Apple vs.
Carnegie was outbid on a limited-edition series of jazz recordings signed by impresario Norman Granz and outbid twice on a flier heralding a lecture on spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Wunderman, a direct mailer turned digital heavyweight, is running an online lecture series for Microsoft aimed at network engineers.
Wunderman, a direct mailer turned digital heavyweight, is running an online lecture series for Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) aimed at network engineers.
"Each network doesn't have to have its own man or woman on the scene at every river that overflows its banks, every border where there's a skirmish, every town up and down the coast battening down for a hurricane, " Hewitt said Thursday at the Frank Gannett Lecture series at the Freedom Forum.
At the less traditional end of the scale was a lecture this month at the UK's Judge Business School, part of Cambridge University, one of a series intended to explore the crossover between commerce and culture.
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