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 [...]
Braverman, Hammon and Dodge place first and second in graduate research symposium
Graduate architecture students from the College of Design won first and second place in the Humanities and Design category of the 7th Annual North Carolina State University Graduate Student Research Symposium which was held at the McKimmon Center on March 20, 2012. Master of Architecture students Jessie Braverman and Shawna Hammon took first place for [...]
Spring has officially sprung: Some natural thoughts by Jesse Turner and Sarah Werner, NLI design associates
BY JESSE TURNER and SARAH WERNER, Natural Learning Initiative Follow on Twitter @naturalearningi or Like on Facebook. It’s been a weird winter, if you could even call it that. Raleigh has hardly seen a skiff of snow, wool coats remain closeted, and last week oak trees were already budding. It’s early March and the ornamental [...]
Moore and Cosco awarded inaugural NCCAN! Natural Initiatives Award
March 12, 2012 – BROWNS SUMMIT, NC – Professor of Landscape Architecture Robin Moore and Associate Research Professor Dr. Nilda Cosco were honored as the inaugural recipients of the NCCAN! Natural Initiatives Award during the 5th Annual North Carolina Children and Nature Coalition (NCCAN!) Conference. The Natural Initiatives Award named for the Natural Learning Initiative, [...]
NLI partners with the National Wildlife Federation on national guidelines for play and learning
By ELI VALSING, Natural Learning Initiative Natural Learning Initiative (NLI): Natural Play and Learning Area Guidelines Project The Natural Learning Initiative, in partnership with The National Wildlife Federation, began work towards developing national guidelines for play and learning areas in 2009. Children are faced with many options for staying indoors and few options for getting [...]
Two College of Design projects highlighted in 2010-2011 Annual Sustainability Report
By DAVID DEAN, Sustainability Outreach Coordinator The Campus Environmental Sustainability Team is pleased to announce the release of the 2010-2011 Annual Sustainability Report. The report recognizes the substantial advances that NC State is taking as a campus community to make sustainability an integral part of our educational and research mission, our campus culture, and our business decisions. [...]
Rand speaks on “Life-Cycle Assessment: How Masonry Stacks Up”
Professor of Architecture Patrick Rand delivered an invited presentation Life-Cycle Assessment: How Masonry Stacks Up, in a plenary session at the Masonry Society’s annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas on November 12. The presentation reviewed AIA 2030 goals regarding Life-Cycle Assessment and applied those principles to the analysis of embodied energy and embodied carbon of [...]
Person Street Project Exhibition Opens Dec. 2
By TOM BARRIE, Professor of Architecture The Person Street Project Exhibition will present proposals for the future growth and development of the Person Street District highlighted in a recent News & Observer article. It will feature urban design proposals that build upon previous studies to visualize the district as a diverse, vibrant and pedestrian-friendly urban village that serves as a neighborhood hub [...]
Innovators Academy Wins First Place in National Awards of Excellence Competition
Raleigh, NC (November 7, 2011) The Middle School Innovators Academy, a unique collaboration between the Department of Graphic and Industrial Design at NC State and the Innovation Design Lab at East Carolina University, won first place for Excellence in Talent Development in the University Economic Development Association’s 2011 Awards of Excellence national competition held in [...]
TMH Announces 2011 Macon Smith Research Grant Recipients
To support research into residential modernist architecture and architects October 27, 2011 (Durham, NC) — David Hill, Assistant Professor of Architecture at North Carolina State University’s College of Design, has won a second Mason Smith Research Grant from Triangle Modernist Houses, the non-profit, award-winning organization dedicated to documenting, preserving and promoting modernist residential design. Hill [...]
