1. Michael Jerome Hawley was an American academic and artist working in the field of digital media.
11 Facts About Michael Hawley
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Michael Hawley notably was the scientific director of the American Expedition on Mount Everest in 1998, one of the first major scientific expeditions on Everest.
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Michael Hawley's work has been featured in major media such as National Geographic, Time, The New York Times, and on numerous television networks.
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Michael Hawley was born in November 1961 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, and grew up in New Providence, New Jersey.
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Michael Hawley did his undergraduate work at Yale University in the areas of music and computer science; he went on to do his doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Michael Hawley won first place, tying with Victoria Bragin, at the third International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, hosted by the Van Cliburn Foundation in 2002.
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Michael Hawley's teachers have included Earl Wild and Ward Davenny, and he has performed solo recitals, chamber concerts and appeared as soloist with major orchestras.
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Michael Hawley accompanied cellist Yo-Yo Ma in performing the wedding march at the marriage of TV host and scientist Bill Nye and musician and author Blair Tindall at Richard Saul Wurman's 2006 "The Entertainment Gathering" conference.
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Michael Hawley was the scientific director of an expedition to Mount Everest in 1998.
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Michael Hawley and Cambodian-born Nina You were married in Bhutan in a traditional Bhutanese blessing ceremony held at Kyichu Lhakhang, a 7th-century temple that is considered to be one of the most sacred sites in Bhutan.
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Michael Hawley died on June 24,2020, from colon cancer, at his home in Cambridge.