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 [...]
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 [...]
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!
Food systems and design brings students together at the Downtown Design Studio
The Downtown Design Studio hosted The Student Ideas Exchange in Food Systems and Design on March 29, 2012. The ideas exchange is the first in a series of exchanges to be hosted by the Downtown Design Studio to bring a diverse group together to hear presentations of student work and to foster a conversation with [...]
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, [...]
Design Camp, Summer Studio and Innovator’s Academy Opportunities for Summer 2012
There will be multiple opportunities for those interested in applying to become a teaching assistant for the Middle School Innovator’s Academy and as an instructor or teaching assistant for Design Camp and for Summer Studios at CAM Raleigh for the Summer of 2012. Design Camp and CAM Raleigh Educational Programs Interested in working at Design [...]
CAM RALEIGH PRESENTS ID:ENTITY SELF : PERCEPTION + REALITY
A GROUP EXHIBITION OF CUTTING-EDGE INTERACTIVE ART WORKS BY ARTISTS AND FACULTY AT NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY November 18, 2011 through February 13, 2012 Raleigh, November, 2011 – On view at CAM Raleigh from November 18, 2011 through February 13, 2012, is the third installment of the Emerging Artists Series featuring a group exhibition by [...]
Facebook inquiry leads to design match
Jessica McRackan didn’t know what to expect when she sent out a post on Facebook updating friends on the status of her fourteen-month old daughter Rosie, who was born without her entire right leg and left forearm. McRackan found out about her daughter’s condition while 22 weeks pregnant. She and her husband were shocked but [...]
CAM Raleigh announces opening weekend exceeds goal and announces free admission at first fridays program
Raleigh, NC – More than 2,500 people attended CAM Raleigh’s opening weekend. Generously supported by Progress Energy, the community was invited to take part in CAM Raleigh’s opening festivities and view two exhibitions featuring Steinhilber in the main galleries and Naoko Ito in the Independent Weekly Gallery Emerging Artist Series. Kicking off the weekend with [...]
