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

Huntington Theatre Co Announces Special Events In Conjunction With TOPDOG/UNDERDOG 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...

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.

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."

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."

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.