New developments being rolled out in the coming months… Sneak peek!

Hello everyone! We hope you are having a great summer thus far. The summer months are flying by with only a few weeks till the fall semester begins anew on campus. Here are a few updates on what we’ve been up to this summer. We’ve been busy behind the scenes getting our communications technology set [...]

John Rex Endowment Awards Grants to Three Nonprofits to Support the Healthy Weight of Children

RALEIGH, N.C. (July 17, 2012) – The John Rex Endowment announces the approval of three healthy weight grants totaling more than $525,000. The Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education, the North Carolina State University Natural Learning Initiative, and WakeMed Health and Hospitals will receive grants for projects that include overweight and obesity prevention strategies [...]

2012 Blockfest and Student Design Competition winners

The graduate and undergraduate students in Assistant Professor of Architecture Dana K. Gulling’s ARC232: Structures and Materials course participated in the NCSU College of Design’s and Carolinas Concrete Masonry Association’s (CCMA) Blockfest and Student Design Competition on Saturday, April 21, 2012. In teams of four, students participated in one of two categories. The teams either [...]

Student and Faculty Notables for May 2012

Graphic Design senior Chelsea Amato was selected to receive the Green Brick Award from the Office of Sustainability at NC State. Read more about her contributions to sustainability at: http://www.ncsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/bulletin/2012/04/green-awards-galore-for-nc-state/ WILA (Women in Landscape Architecture) and SASLA co-hosted the 2nd Annual Innovation Gallery Show at the Urban Design Center on May 4, 2012. They presented [...]

In Response: Weaving by Ann Roth and Vita Plume

On view from May 31 – September 6, 2012. Closing Reception Thursday, September 6 from 6-8 p.m. Two contemporary weavers respond to objects from the Gregg Museum’s permanent collection with works of their own. Vita Plume uses portraits taken in the Appalachians in the early 1900s by photographers like Doris Ulmann, Bayard Wooten, Paul Buchanan [...]

Spring Commencement 2012 – Evans explains the importance of saying YES

Award-winning Creative Director, Executive Producer and Photographer David Evans (BEDV 1984) gave the commencement speech for the spring graduating class of 2012 in Stewart Theatre on May 12, 2012. With a graduating class of nearly two hundred students, it is the largest graduating class in the history of the college. Below is a transcript of [...]

Arthouse 2012 celebrating the first anniversary of CAM Raleigh

Arthouse 2012 was a huge success! Thank you to our host committee, all attendees, our donors, our sponsors, our volunteers, and our staff. We look forward to another exciting year of museum programs and exhibitions. To view upcoming events and exhibitions at CAMRaleigh visit: http://camraleigh.org/category/events/upcoming Arthouse 2012 1ST ANNIVERSARY PARTY and ART + CULTURE AUCTION [...]

Design Guild Award Dinner 2012 Recap

Images from the 15th Annual Design Guild Award Dinner honoring Philip G. Freelon, FAIA at the Raleigh Convention Center on April 21, 2012. Stay tuned to watch the video online. Coming soon!

“Handing out the keys to the spaceship”: Changing the Game at NC State University

April 24, 2012 (Raleigh, N.C.)—Though the James B. Hunt Jr. Library is still under construction on North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus, it is already—as promised—giving students pioneering, hands-on experience with technologies that they would not have a chance to work with at any other university in the world. NC State’s Digital Games Research Initiative [...]

Graphic Design and Industrial Design capstone exhibition opening April 26

The Department of Graphic Design and Industrial Design senior capstone exhibition will be held in Brooks Hall beginning April 26 with an opening reception at 4:30 p.m. The exhibition is open to the public and will be up until May 4. The format for the show’s presentation will be “salon-style” and will host semester-long capstone [...]