Faculty and Staff Notes

Exam Permits Available

Exam permits may be purchased from the Transportation Office, Administrative Services I, 2721 Sullivan Drive, beginning the Friday prior to exams, April 24. Resident students may purchase a West Lot permit for $2 a day. Commuters may purchase a Coliseum or Dan Allen Deck permit for $2 a day as space allows. Wolfline continues normal service during exams. 

Office of International Affairs Newsletter

The April 23 newsletter from the Office of International Affairs has news and information on a wide range of events taking place in the colleges. To read the newsletter, visit http://ncsu.edu/project/nsaudiovideo/pdf/CollegesNews.pdf.

This year's Nanodays features "nano" ice cream and sunscreen.

Nanodays: Big Crowd for Small Science

On Friday more than 2,000 students, parents and teachers from across the state will visit NC State's Centennial Campus for Nanodays 2009. Nanodays is designed to open the world of nanoscience and nanotechnology to children. Participants get hands-on experience in making "nano" ice cream and trying on nano sunscreen. The event is hosted by NC State's College of Education.

Benefits Count for Community College Faculty

Benefits matter when it comes to job satisfaction among part-time faculty at community colleges. That's the conclusion of a study co-authored by Dr. Paul D. Umbach, associate professor of education, who presented at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

Umbach and Dr. Ryan Wells of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst evaluated national survey data from 5,700 faculty at 300 community colleges. Results showed adjunct faculty members shoulder significant teaching loads at community colleges and rely on their teaching income to varying degrees.

About a third of part-timers received benefits, which were positively related to job satisfaction.

State Employees Appreciated

Gov. Perdue has proclaimed the week of May 3-9 as "State Employee Recognition Week" and May 6 as "State Employee Appreciation Day." She urges all citizens, "to take this opportunity to join me in expressing to all state employees our appreciation for their commendable service." Download the proclamation at http://ncsu.edu/project/nsaudiovideo/pdf/employee-recognition.pdf.

Chapman Honored for Distance Learning

Dr. Diane Chapman of Adult and Higher Education received the 2009 Parks Todd Award for distinguished service to the field of distance learning. The North Carolina Distance Learning Association honored Chapman, an assistant professor who directs certificate and online master of education programs at NC State.

Finance and Business Presents Awards

Finance and Business presented awards for excellence to four employees: Joy Holland in the Facilities Budget Office, Jill Guzman in International Employment, Rob Yaeger in the University Architect's office and Bob Fraser in the Centennial Campus Development office.

Chambers Joins Annual Giving

Amy Chambers was appointed project manager for Annual Giving. Her responsibilities include stewardship, Web 2.0 communications, Web site management, reports, budget and support for mail and phone programs.

Chambers previously worked as associate director of Community Counseling Services, a fundraising consulting service. Her experience includes serving as gifts and grants coordinator and stewardship director at the California Institute of Technology.

Passings

Monte McCaw

Dr. Monte Bruce McCaw, a professor of swine virology at NC State, died March 28. He was born Jan. 22, 1956 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and grew up on a livestock farm near Clarence, Iowa. He attended the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, where he earned his DVM degree in 1980. He was a private practice large animal veterinarian in Lake City, Iowa, for four years before obtaining a Ph.D. in swine virology at the University of Minnesota.

McCaw is survived by his wife, Teresa, of Wake Forest; sons Derek, Travis, and Tyler, all of the Raleigh area; brother, Guy, of Grinnell, Iowa; sister, Sharon McCaw Berner (Carl), of Canton, Georgia; and his parents, Gene and Ramona McCaw, of Grinnell, Iowa.

Reef Ivey

Reef Challance Ivey II, the first chair of the Board of Visitors at NC State, died March 5 after a long and heroic battle against cancer.

Ivey was born on Jan. 26, l943, in Wadesboro and grew up in Lumberton. He was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, but chose to attend NC State, where he graduated in l965 with a degree in experimental statistics. From there he went on to law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in l968.

Ivey practiced law in New York before serving as an assistant district attorney in New York City. In 1973 he joined PepsiCo, where he served as vice-president of world trade. His also served as senior vice-president and general counsel for Wilson Foods. Ivey served as a professor of law at Pace University School of Law and Rutgers University School of Law. His last position before returning to North Carolina was as a principal owner of Nutri/System Inc. Ivey returned to North Carolina in 1993 to practice law. For the past seven years he was with Kieran Shanahan at the Shanahan Law Group.

In 1988 he established the Reef C. Ivey II Foundation to help underprivileged children. He was a member of the North Carolina Agribusiness Council, the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry, the board of directors of the North Carolina Outward Bound School, the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, the foundation board of Rex Health Care and the President's Council of the American Lung Association of North Carolina. He chaired Citizens for NC State University during the 1993 bond referendum and served on the Executive Committee of the Economic Development Coalition 2000. He was founder and chair of the State Club, a private dining facility located in the Dorothy and Roy Park Alumni Center on Centennial Campus.

Ivey is survived by his wife, Donna, and children Reef "Tucker" III, Reef IV, Raines and Remington. His former stepdaughter, Meredith Lockhart, lives in Malvern, Penn.

Vernon Malone

State Sen. Vernon Malone, who served on NC State's Board of Trustees for eight years, died of natural causes Saturday at his home in Raleigh. The 77-year-old Democrat represented eastern and northeastern Wake County in the General Assembly for four terms and held public office in Wake County for more three decades.

As school board chairman, Malone presided over the merger of Raleigh city schools and Wake County public schools in 1976. In the Senate, Malone continued his work in education. He was co-chairman of the Senate's higher education committee and appropriations committee for higher education. Malone worked as a classroom teacher and school administrator before becoming superintendent of the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Malone is survived by two sons and a daughter. His wife passed away last year.

Funeral services will be held noon Thursday at Martin Street Baptist Church, 1001 E Martin St. in Raleigh. A burial service will immediately follow at the Carolina Biblical Gardens,1530 Creech Road in Garner.