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Last week, Blue Cross / Blue Shield of North Carolina announced a major initiative to attack the obesity problem in the state - and the NC State University College of Design is a part of the fight.
Shape NC brings together the College’s Natural Learning Initiative (NLI) with two other high profile health promotion partners - [...]

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Ron Kuhr of Raleigh, a retired NC State professor of entomology, has a 41 year-old son with autism, a diagnosis that has grown in prevalence from one in a thousand to nearly one in a hundred children over the past few decades.Everyone is anxious to know: How will autistic children learn to cope with daily [...]

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August 2010 Home of the Month Article in The News & Observer http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/28/649117/bridge-house-over-troubled-waters.html
College of Design Alums Rob and Beth Mangum featured in the September 2010 issue of Our State Magazine. http://www.ourstate.com/articles/weaverville
Young Inventors Cause A Stir. Six pre-teens worked with industrial design professors and graduate students to conceive, prototype and develop presentations about their new [...]

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Associate Professor of Art + Design Vita Plume was one of 18 artists in North Carolina to receive the 2010-2011 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship Awards. Artists receive a $10,000 fellowship to “deepen their work and explore new ground.”

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The Product Innovation Lab - a graduate-level course co-founded by Professor of Industrial Design Haig Khachatoorian was - was recently chosen by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top 10 innovative business school courses in the United States.
Khachatoorian founded the course 15 years ago with colleagues Dr. Mitzi Montoya, formerly of the College of [...]

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School of Architecture associate professor Kristen Schaffer will appear on PBS. Professor Schaffer was interviewed for “Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City,” a documentary that explores how the ides of architect and planner Daniel Burnham shaped the city of Chicago and influenced decades of urban planning. It will air on UNC [...]

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It’s not your usual summer camp. Not by a long shot.

In fact, Design Camp, now in its 25th year, has provided more than a diversion. It has given a good many students their careers.

“For many kids, this is their first exposure to, say, landscape architecture,” says Nicole Welch, the program’s facilitator and Curator [...]

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Sharon Silcox of the Design Library received an honorable mention in the 2010 Hexapod Haiku Contest from the NC State University Insect Museum.
Judges gave her high marks for “the best combination of science and art” and “every syllable, punctuation, meaning, imagery, etc. is purposeful.”

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Art to Wear 2010 was held on April 14, 2010 in Reynolds Coliseum featuring students designers from the College of Design, College of Textiles and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
For show images visit: http://bit.ly/arttowear2010
Related News:
The News & Observer articles and coverage:
“Show blends art, fashion food” http://bit.ly/9jUx6E
Art to Wear Gallery: http://bit.ly/djosVw
Art to Wear First Look [...]

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Left to right: Matt Tomasulo, Rebecca Myers, Daria Khramtsova, Jeff Pleshek, and Maria Papiez. (photo by Melissa Jacobs, Urban Land Institute)
A joint team of design graduate students from the NC State College of Design and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill claimed the top spot in this year’s Urban Land Institute (ULI) Gerald D. [...]

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Industrial Design students under the direction of Associate Professor of Industrial Design Bong-Il Jin have placed first, second, third and fifth in the New York International Automobile Show. The students will be invited to accept their scholarships and give a brief statement about their projects at the World Traffic Safety Symposium on Friday, April 9, [...]

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A brief history about Art to Wear was featured in the Independently Weekly. To read the article visit: http://www.indyweek.com/artery/archives/2010/03/09/art-to-wear-a-brief-history

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http://www.newsobserver.com/news/education/story/322810.html - Article about Dean Malecha’s role as consulting architect for new Chancellor’s residence.
http://goodnightraleigh.com/2010/02/the-passing-of-a-legend-an-opportunity-lost/ Article on the late Eduardo Catalano.

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“Come on Baby, Light My Color Wall“, revival of Joe Cox’s color wall in the NC State Newsletter.
January 2010 Home of the Month in The News & Observer.
Eduardo Catalano, Architect at NCSU in The News & Observer.
Art + Design Alumna Holly Aiken in Raleigh Downtowner Magazine.
ART REVIEW: Crossing cultural boundaries to find out similarities article [...]

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