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Abernathy puts signature on new VetMed center
Posted on March 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe College of Veterinary Medicine will be opening the Randall B. Terry, Jr. Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center in Spring, 2011. The Terry Center’s exterior was designed by College of... -
Alumni Notes for Spring 2011
Posted on March 7, 2011 | No CommentsTheresa Joan Rosenberg, an architect and attorney, recently became an accredited professional (AP) by the Green Building Certification Institute. Professionals achieve this recognition by demonstrating knowledge and understanding of “green”... -
A Growing Train: 10 Years of Art to Wear
Posted on March 4, 2011 | No CommentsTo listen to Vita Plume reminisce about Art to Wear, one expects that the annual fashion and wearable art show must involve equal parts hard work and magic. There’s a... -
Praying that Art Can Pay the Rent
Posted on March 4, 2011 | No CommentsFor nearly two years, ten hours a day (even some weekends) Jason Carpenter (BAD/BID 1997) applied himself to creating a ten-minute animation that had been brewing in the back of... -
A Whole New Scene
Posted on March 3, 2011 | No CommentsFor nearly 20 years, John Kirtz (BEDV 1978) was a graphic designer in Raleigh with a steady stream of clients. Then, in 1994, when his wife took a job in... -
Honoring Basketball’s Origins
Posted on March 3, 2011 | No CommentsIn Springfield, Massachusetts, a young boy is about to catch a bounce pass. It’s 1891. The immortal scene — cast in bronze — is the design of Michael Tully (MLA... -
Handling a Steep Curve: GM’s Independence Project
Posted on February 22, 2011 | No CommentsThere’s a certain car buyer Carl Wellborn (BEDV 1983) wants very badly to meet, and he’s searching the planet to find him. Wellborn, who has worked for General Motors for... -
Design Guild Awards Light Up a Tobacco Campus
Posted on October 7, 2010 | No Comments13th Annual Design Guild Award Dinner Honors Greg Hatem April 10, 2010, at Durham’s American Tobacco Campus–Bay 7 Photos courtesy of K.C. Ramsey. Thanks to all of the Design Guild... -
Hill Revisits Matsumoto Demo Homes
Posted on October 7, 2010 | No CommentsAssistant Professor of Architecture David Hill (BEDA 1996 / B.Arch. 1997) is taking another look at the demonstration homes of acclaimed architect George Matsumoto. Matsumoto, retired and living in Oakland,... -
A troubled legacy
Posted on October 7, 2010 | No CommentsElizabeth Lundberg Morisette’s (BEDA 1994) art piece, “ABORT,” illustrates a chapter in “Thoreau’s Legacy: American Stories About Global Warming,” a book of essays published by the Union of Concerned Scientists...