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UltraLight Exhibit in Brooks Gallery

Brooks Gallery is featuring "UltraLight," an exhibit of works by Dutch graphic designer Harmen Liemburg through March 20. The artist will present a lecture at 5 p.m. Friday, March 13, in Burns Auditorium. He is among the most mobile, productive and contemporary artist/designers in the world. Liemburg was recently awarded a major grant by the Netherlands Foundation of Visual Arts, Design and Architecture to produce this curated, designed and packaged exhibition of 500 pieces of his work, created over the past decade.

Renewal Energy Awards

The N.C. Solar Center, along with Triangle Clean Cities and Centralina Clean Fuels Coalition, announced the third annual North Carolina Mobile Clean Air Renewable Energy (CARE) awards, which will recognize individuals, fuel and technology providers, fleets, and policy innovations that are advancing alternative fuel and transportation technology activities in North Carolina. Nominations will be accepted until March 13. The awards will be presented as part of 2009 Drive Clean and Green: A North Carolina Tour. This event will begin in Raleigh on April 15 at the 6th annual NC State Energy Office conference and continue April 16 in Greensboro and Charlotte. The Mobile CARE awards are supported by the North Carolina Division of Air Quality, State Energy Office, and the Department of Transportation.

Hillsborough Street Renaissance

For the first time since its original construction in 1792, Hillsborough Street will be closed for an all day eco-friendly arts and music festival on Saturday, March 14. The festival has been created to showcase the construction changes occurring on the street over the next two years, and to revitalize Raleigh's famed Hillsborough Street. Proceeds from the festival will go to support student and community non-profit organizations focused on renewable energy research, sustainable development, and community improvement projects. The event will feature a wide variety of activities, as well as live music and ton of vendors. Come check out the first annual, soon-to-be-historic Hillsborough Street Renaissance with live bands, an eco-fashion show, fraternity, sorority and business BBQ taste-testing competition, iron chef cook-off styled after March madness basketball brackets, and more. Visit the Web site.

Fifth Annual Pinwheel Film Festival

The submission deadline for the Pinwheel Film Festival is Monday, March 16. The festival, which celebrates local and independent short films, will be held Saturday, March 28, in Witherspoon Cinema. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to submit entries. Contact Devin Orgeron at devin_orgeron@ncsu.edu.

Teaching and Learning Conference Entirely Online

The UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Collaborative (UNC TLTC) board and staff will be hosting this year's Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference completely online, eliminating the need for travel. In addition, the TLTC board and staff have decided to suspend the registration fee. You can attend from your home, office, library – anywhere you have a broadband internet connection – for free.  The conference will run March 16-20 with pre-conference technical support beginning March 13.

While there is no registration fee, presenters and participants are still required to register for the conference to keep track of attendance.

This annual conference, held since 2000, provides a statewide forum to network and exchange information about the effective use of technology for teaching and learning (TLT). The term TLT refers to teaching methods and learning environments that incorporate instructional and library-based technologies, whether face-to-face or online.

The conference emphasizes timely topics of particular interest to UNC campuses, from effective current practices to emerging technologies. Topics include:

• Collaborative efforts to accomplish TLT initiatives
• Instructional resources, approaches, and outcomes
• Technological, pedagogical, library, and administrative policies and support issues
• Research, assessment, evaluation, and critical analyses to increase understanding of TLT practices
• Quality assurance, student retention, efficiency, and effectiveness of TLT efforts
• Current UNC initiatives, such as UNC Tomorrow and the University of North Carolina Online, partnerships among institutions (e.g., 2+2 activities, Learn and Earn), and Course Redesign.

The full conference program is currently available at: http://conference.unctlt.org/program/index.php.

Most sessions will be held in real time via the Web, using Elluminate and Second Life for presentations and discussion.

Living on the New Racial Frontier

Rupert Nacoste, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of Psychology, will lead a campus dialogue on diversity from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, in the Witherspoon Student Center. The interactive forum will focus on the constantly changing face of diversity that influences the new social uncertainty people are feeling in trying to interact with each other. Contact Rupert Nacoste at rupert_nacoste@ncsu.edu.

Wachovia Executive Lecture

Dr. Dennis Gillings, chairman and CEO of Quintiles Transnational, speaks at NC State as part of the Wachovia Executive Lecture series, from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, in Nelson Auditorium. The lecture series is sponsored by the College of Management.

Diversity Program Planned

The Office for Equal Opportunity sponsors several programs throughout the year to help the campus community learn more about equal opportunity and diversity. Upcoming programs include "Diversity, Discrimination and Affirmative Action," from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, March 18. To learn more about this and other events, and to register, visit the Web site.

Gartman to Speak at Millennium Seminar

Dennis Gartman, publisher of The Gartman Letter, a daily commentary on the global capital markets, will speak at the Millennium Seminar Series with a presentation to students, faculty, staff and the public at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in Stewart Theatre. His remarks will focus on the global economic meltdown, its effect on global and foreign markets, and what investors can and should do during this difficult economic time.

Tax Filing Assistance

NC State accounting students will help you file your taxes as part of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. It all happens from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 21, in the basement computing lab in Nelson Hall (Nelson B411).

Cellist Alan Toda-Ambaras to Perform

Presented as the third installment in the Price Music Center Lecture Series, Music@NCState is proud to present special guest cellist Alan Toda-Ambaras, accompanied by Misako Toda, at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 22, in Stewart Theatre. Alan's father, Dr. David Ambaras, is an associate professor in the history department. Alan Toda-Ambaras captured the attention of the musical world when, at the age of fourteen, he received the Prize for the Most Promising Contestant at the 2005 Rostropovich International Cello Competition in Paris. Born in Tokyo, Alan began his cello studies at the age of 4, and has been a student of North Carolina Symphony cellist Leonid Zilper since 2001. In 2008, Alan won first prize in the North Carolina Symphony Youth Concerto Competition (appearing with the RSO in April). Alan, now 18, is a member of the East Chapel Hill High School Class of 2009.

Phi Kappa Phi Induction

The Spring 2009 induction ceremony for Phi Kappa Phi will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, in Stewart Theatre, followed by a dessert reception in the ballroom. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend.

Music on Trial: A Conversation

Presented as the fourth installment of the Price Music Center Lecture Series, Music@NCState is proud to present "Music on Trial: A Conversation" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, in Stewart Theatre. Catherine Admay, a human rights specialist and legal scholar at Duke University; Ferhat Tunç, a Turkish visiting artist in residence at Duke; and Louise Meintjes, an ethnomusicologist at Duke, will contrast the case of Ferhat Tunç, a human rights activist and musician who has faced detention, censorship and prosecution by the Turkish state, with that of Simon Bikindi, a Rwandan musician indicted for genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The conversation will explore the multiple relations among the arts and human rights, with a live performance by Tunç.

Seminar on Biochemistry

Dr. Ferre-D'Amare will present a seminar titled, "Catalytic and gene-regulatory RNAs: Sophisticated biochemistry by a simple biopolymer," at noon on Thursday, March 26, in Polk Hall, Room 128. Ferre-D'Amare is interested in the structural principles that underlie the stability and function of biological RNAs, particularly catalytic RNAs (ribozymes) and protein enzymes responsible for post-transcriptional RNA modifications. His experimental approach combines X-ray crystallography and biochemistry.

Shanghai Huai Opera

Music@NCState is proud to co-sponsor, along with the NC State Confucius Institute and UNCG School of Music, the premier of the Huai Opera Company of Shanghai performing the seldom-seen form of Chinese opera from the Yangtze Delta region. This is a rare opportunity to see one of the world's cultural treasures, an art form that combines singing, story-telling, lavish costumes, and stunning acrobatics. This is the first time the Huai Opera Company will be performing this opera in the United States. The performance will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 28, in Stewart Theatre. 

Recyclemania Grips Campus

NC State is competing in Recyclemania for the second year. The competition runs through March 28. Last year NC State ranked 17th among 400 U.S. colleges in the 10-week national recycling competition. Waste Reduction and Recycling, University Housing, University Dining, and the Office of Sustainability are working to increase awareness of the event. The goal is to rank in the top 10 for this year's competition.

Materials that count towards the competition include:

• Paper
• Boxboard and chipboard
• Catalogues
• Hard and softbound books
• Junk mail
• Magazines
• Newspaper
• Office Paper (all colors)
• Phone books
• Bottles and cans
• Plastic marked No. 1 through No. 7 (e.g., soda, water, juice, and laundry detergent bottles)
• Aluminum cans
• Glass bottles and jars
• Steel cans
• Cardboard

For more information, visit  http://recyclemania.org.

Perry Retirement Reception

Attend a reception to honor Dr. Katharine Perry, senior vice provost, on her retirement. The event will take place from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, March 30, in the Atrium at the College of Textiles on Centennial Campus. To contribute a letter to be included in a book that will be presented to Perry, write to Vicki_Walton@ncsu.edu. Letters must be received by Friday, March 27.

Language Documentary to Air

UNC-TV will premier "The Carolina Brogue," a film documenting the "hoi toid" dialect of Ocracoke, on Thursday, April 2, at 10 p.m. It is the most recent documentary from the North Carolina Language and Life Project (NCLLP), which is led by Dr. Walt Wolfram, the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of English at NC State. The NCLLP focuses on researching and documenting language throughout the American South, and providing resources on these dialects to educators and others interested in the language and culture of the region.

Register for Technology Institute for Faculty

Registration is now open now through April 3 for the 11th annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Summer Institute for Faculty. The event will be held May 11-15 in the D.H. Hill Library. The program is designed for faculty interested in Web-enhanced or online instruction. The program includes 20 hours of workshops, plus lunchtime seminars and optional lab sessions, spread over one week. Benefits include learning new ways to teach using technology, developing camaraderie with like-minded colleagues, listening to experienced lunchtime speakers, and receiving software and equipment in support of Web-enhanced teaching endeavors.

Apply at http://delta.ncsu.edu/summer_institute/apply.

Einstein Lecture Speaker Announced

Michael S. Waterman will be giving the American Mathematical Society's annual Einstein Lecture on campus on Saturday, April 4. Waterman is professor of biological sciences, mathematics and computer science at the University of Southern California. He is one of the fathers of computational biology, which "applies the techniques of computer science and applied mathematics to problems inspired by biology."

E-File Your Taxes This Year

E-filing is a quick, convenient and secure way to file your income taxes and receive your refunds weeks ahead of paper filers. You may qualify for free or low-cost e-filing if you earn less than $40,000. Go to http://www.dornc.com  to find a list of approved companies that offer e-filing and to check the eligibility for free filing.

You may also visit a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance/Tax Counseling site to take advantage of free tax preparation and e-filing services for people with low-to-moderate incomes. Go here to find the nearest VITA site.

Arboretum Hosts Gala

The JC Raulston Arboretum will hold its annual Gala in the Garden on Sunday, May 3, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The theme of this year's event is “An Enchanted Garden Party.” In addition to a silent auction, guests will enjoy live music by the Southern String Band and gourmet hors d’oeuvres, including a special dessert reception.

Gala tickets are $60. Proceeds from the event will benefit the JC Raulston Arboretum, a working research and teaching garden of NC State
University. To purchase tickets, contact Anne Porter at 919-513-3826 or anne_porter@ncsu.edu. For more information about the JC Raulston Arboretum visit http://www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum.

Some Rhyme, Some Reason

Nationally recognized poets are coming to downtown Raleigh as part of a poetry reading series launched by English Department lecturers Chris Salerno and Chris Tonelli. The So and So Reading Series works in conjunction with the print journal the Raleigh Quarterly, which features work by the visiting poets, visual artists and others. Salerno and Tonelli not only run the reading series, but also serve as poetry editors for the Raleigh Quarterly.

The next reading will be held Saturday, May 16, at the Morning Times Cafe, and will feature poets Justin Marks, Kate Pringle and Chris Vitiello. More information is available at http://thesoandsoseries.blogspot.com.

On the Prowl, On the Town

In response to interest expressed by NC State Student Government leaders, the transportation department has launched a pilot weekend bus service to the Glenwood South and downtown entertainment district. This limited-stop, express service is open to the public. There is no set timetable; Wolfprowl will run a continuous loop beginning at 9 p.m. with service ending at 3 a.m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
Check real-time bus location via your Web-enabled cell phone at http://ncsu.transloc.com to determine bus arrival/departure times.

The bus line connects to the RLine Raleigh Downtown Circulator. Need more info?  Visit http://www.YouRHere.com.

Please Note:  No summer or holiday service and no service on the evening prior to any university holiday.

Creek Restoration Moves Forward

Work has begun on campus to restore more than 1,400 feet of an urban creek, including digging up 235 feet of a buried stream running behind the Carmichael Gymnasium. The creek, known as Rocky Branch, flows more than a mile through campus and feeds into Walnut Creek, a tributary of the Neuse River, which runs into Pamlico Sound. In the weeks ahead, engineers and other scientists will use earthmoving equipment to pull concrete culverts from the ground, a process called "daylighting."

"Exposing the stream to sunlight, soil and vegetation will help reduce nutrients and other pollutants in the water," explains Barbara Doll, water quality specialist for North Carolina Sea Grant and coordinator of the Rocky Branch Stream Restoration Project.

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