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Welcome Back BBQ will be held on Friday, August 20, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. behind Brooks Hall. All College of Design students, faculty and staff are invited. This event is sponsored by the Design Guild.

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Join Landscape Architecture Head Gene Bressler, FASLA, and fellow alumni and friends for a reception during the 2010 ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo in Washington, D.C.
The Henley Park Hotel
926 Massachuessetts Avenue NW
(one block from the Washington Convention Center)
Friday, September 10, 2010
6:00–7:30 PM
please rsvp by September 3 to:
919.515.8320 or design.ncsu.edu/rsvp
We will honor new alumni fellow:
WHITNEY A. [...]

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Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Kofi Boone, ASLA, will be presenting two papers at the
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2010 conference in Maastricht, Netherlands. The conference is a joint effort with ISOMUL, and International Landscape Architecture Organization. The two papers are “Triggers for Ecological Thinking: Alternative Pathways to Environmental Awareness in Community Design”, [...]

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GREG HATEM IS A SPARK, A CATALYST, A FORCE BEHIND THE RESURGENCE OF DOWNTOWN RALEIGH. As founder and managing partner of Empire Properties, Greg has guided the company’s portfolio of projects, consisting of more than 40 rehabilitation projects with 550,000 square feet of retail and office space which have truly enhanced not only the [...]

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The College of Design 2010 Intercom Research Exchange will take place on March 1, 2010 at 5:30 -8:00 p.m. in 311 & 312 Leazar Hall. Everyone is welcome. Learn what colleagues, doctoral & graduate candidates are thinking about and making happen. There will be refreshments from Neomonde.

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Registration is open for the 2010 eGames. Prizes will total up to $30,000 and there will be nine categories for students to compete. Registration deadline is March 26.
The eGames are NC State’s Olympics style competition that provides a venue for students to showcase their ideas to the entrepreneurial community. From business plans to elevator [...]

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The 5th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium will take place on March 10, 2010 beginning at 1:00 p.m. in the McKimmon’s Center on NC State University’s campus.
Eleven graduate students from the College of Design will be participating during the poster session and competition. Those students are: Tim Bennett (Industrial Design), Peter Carrasquillo (Industrial Design), Brooke [...]

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[Transcript]
Fall 2009 Commencement Address
December 19, 2009
ABOUT CAKES AND RAISINS
Dr. Paul Tesar
Professor of Architecture
Good afternoon – and a very good afternoon it is for all of us here!!! Such things as the weather cannot, must not, get in the way of events such as this. On the contrary: I think that a little adversity makes them [...]

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Guidelines for End of year Donations
As you are making your plans for the holidays and your final year-end donations for the 2009 tax year, we hope that you will include the College of Design in those plans. You may choose to support any of the academic programs, become a member of the Design Guild, [...]

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Director of the Downtown Design Studio Dr. Celen Pasalar contributed as a guest correspondent for an article in The News & Observer in regards to Raleigh’s City Plaza. To read the story visit: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local_state/story/156009.html

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The Prospective Graduate Student Open House for the College of Design will be held on November 9 with a welcome starting at 2:30 p.m. in Brooks Hall.
Schedule
2:30 – 2:45
Welcome Prospective Students
Brooks Hall Lower Rotunda
2:45 – 3:15
Student-led Tours of College of Design
Start from Brooks Hall Lower Rotunda
3:15 – 3:25
Introduction to the College of Design [...]

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Chatham County announces that its first director of Sustainable Communities Development, which will oversee several major county functions, is Cynthia F. Van Der Wiele, Ph.D., who has a wide range of experience and education related to the job position. She begins work on June 15, 2009.
Van Der Wiele (MLA 1992, Ph.D. 2004) has been an [...]

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Graphic Design senior Rachael Huston was honored April 22 as the outstanding poster presentation by a student at the 18th Annual NC State Undergraduate Research Symposium. The NC State Chapter of Sigma Xi recognized her achievement at the Annual Spring Banquet and presented her with a Certificate of Recognition.
She worked with Ph.D. student Matthew Peterson [...]

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Rachel Cannon wears her 3-D glasses to accept her graphic design degree from Santiago Piedrafita and Dean Marvin Malecha. Graduates have an option to choose an image that is displayed when their name is called and the Graphic Design graduates created 3-D photos. (Above photo taken by alumnus Devin McKim.)
Of the 136 graduates receiving awards, [...]

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