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The Awards Program will take place Friday, May 8, 2009 at 4 p.m. in Burns Auditorium. A reception will be following the award ceremony for recipients and their families.
Graduation will be on Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. in Stewart Theatre at the Talley Student Center. For more information for the University Graduation ceremony [...]

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Ph.D. in Design alumnus Dr. Orcun Kepez received the 2009 Turkish Cultural Foundation fellowship in the amount of $15,000.
The 
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Register now for the College of Design’s  60th Anniversary weekend to be held April 3-4, 2009. Download the form and send it in with your choice of activities.
The 60th is a great chance to reconnect with old friends and learn what students are doing today. Participate in interesting programs throughout the reunion. The anniversary will [...]

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Each discipline in the College of Design is represented in the second annual Intercom: College of Design Research Exchange. Please join the college community Monday, March 16 from 5:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. in Leazar 311 and 312. This event is hosted by the College S.R.E.E. Committee. Everyone is welcome. Learn what colleagues, doctoral and [...]

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“Future History 3: 21st Century Curriculum,” a project of the AIGA, will be hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago on March 7 and 8.
The conference is focused on exploring current and future curricular challenges and innovations, in relation to traditional design education frameworks. There will be national and international speakers and breakout sessions [...]

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The College of Design held their 2008 Fall Commencement on Wednesday, December 17 at Stewart Theatre in Talley Student Center on NC State’s central campus. Professor of Architecture Frank Harmon was the keynote speaker during the ceremony.

Professor of Architecture Frank Harmon

(Left) Dean Malecha speaking to graduates. (Right) Design Guild President Turan Duda
COMMENCEMENT DECEMBER 2008 Speech [...]

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Aaron Marcus, President, Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc., Berkeley, California, and Visiting Professor, Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago
Date/time: Thursday, October 23, 7:00 pm
Title: *Cross-Cultural User-Experience: What? So What? Now What?*
Place: Brook 320
Marcus is the founder and President of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A) and Visiting Professor with Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago. Marcus is [...]

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Join Department of Landscape Architecture Head Gene Bressler, FASLA, and fellow alumni and friends for a reception during the 2008 ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo in Philadelphia (all alumni, regardless of discipline, are invited to attend). Please RSVP at http://design.ncsu.edu/rsvp.html
Friday, October 3, 2008
6:30 to 8:30 pm
Hosted by WRT Design
Location: 1700 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19103
There [...]

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Meredith, Director of the Ph.D. program, presented at the City of Neighborhoods which brought together 30 educators from across the country in multiple disciplines for workshops sponsored by Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. The event took place June 23-27 in New Orleans.
To read the full article, visit: http://www.interiordesign.net/article/CA6573433.html

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Professor of Graphic Design Martha Scotford and Ph.D. Candidate Traci Rose Rider were researchers last year for a module on Ethics in Design for an open seminar course in Research Ethics taught by Professor of Philosophy Gary Constock.

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On March 19th, 2008, NC State hosted its 3rd Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium at the McKimmon Center. Featuring more than 150 university participants in five broad categories, Ph.D. Student M. Zaki Islam and Master of Graphic Design Student Michele Wong won first and second prize, respectively, in the humanities/social sciences/design category.

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NC State held its first Graduate Student Research Symposium March 30 at the Talley Student Center. Seven design students were among the presenters.
Lynda Collins, graduate student in Industrial Design, under the supervision of Susan Brandeis, presented “Woven shibori and whole garment weaving”
Jenny M. DeMarco, graduate student in Landscape Architecture, under the supervision of Art Rice, [...]

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PhD Candidate Sudeshna Chatterjee received the top prize for a student paper she will present at EDRA37. She, along with several other NC State College of Design professors, researchers and students will attend the conference May 3-7 in Atlanta.
PhD candidates Chang Hyejung, Long Yixiang and Arleen Humphrey will present papers in addition to Chatterjee. Hyejung’s [...]

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New Ph.D. in Design student Zaki Islam has been awarded the Berger Young Architect Award 2005, one of the highest awards given by the Institute of Architects Bangladesh. The award is given every two years and it is an national competition, sponsored by Berger Paints in Bangladesh. The award will be given at a ceremony [...]

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Ph.D. in Design Candidate Orcun Kepez garnered a $1500 International Furnishings and Design Association Educational Foundations’ Vercille Voss Scholarship for the 2005-2006 school year. Kepez also was selected as the $1000 winner of the American Society of Interior Designers Foundation Inc./Irene Winifred Eno Grant. His submission was based on his dissertation proposal titled “Effect of [...]

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