DESIGNlife News

Alumni Michael Laut, Mike Bissinger and Glenwood Morris joined Percy Hooper as guest lecturers in an eight-week workshop I taught this summer on Design Communication for Entrepreneurs at East Carolina University.
The Innovators Academy focuses on boosting the inventors’ ability to communicate his or her design ideas effectively. The participants learn practical sketching techniques, 2-D and [...]

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POD (Preventing Obesity by Design II) is a partnership between the Natural Learning Initiative at NC State and the N.C. Partnership for Children Inc.
Smart Start of Brunswick County was one of the recipient’s of the 2009-2011 POD Grant Award funded by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. POD brings the classroom outdoors through [...]

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Robin F. Abrams, AIA, ASLA, head of architecture, and Kofi Boone, assistant professor in Landscape Architecture have been selected to serve on jury panel for the Moore Square Design Competition sponsored by the City of Raleigh. In June, Raleigh landscape architect and NC State University alumnus Rodney Swink (MLA 1977) was named jury advisor

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Associate Professor of Graphic Design Kermit Bailey is the principal investigator on research titled “Mapping Cultural Legacy in The South Park-East.” Bailey received one of the University Extension, Engagement, and Economic Development Grants for $10,000.

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The Natural Learning Initiative’s Playwork IN Nature Training Program trained individuals in basic playwork approaches for working with children in institutional and public settings where engagement with nature is the primary vehicle for creative enjoyment and healthy child development.
Visit NLI’s Web site to view new publications.

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Goodnight, Raleigh posted this story about raising money to turn the lights back on the Color Wall, by Joe Cox, located in D.H. Hill Library (facing Hillsborough Street). Read story here:
http://goodnightraleigh.com/2009/07/lets-turn-the-switch-back-on-the-color-wall/
News release
Source: goodnightraleigh.com

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Department Head Gene Bressler, FASLA, has been appointed by Governor Bev Perdue to serve on the North Carolina Board of Landscape Architecture.
Head of the Center for Universal Design and Adjunct Architecture Faculty Member Sean Vance, AIA, has been appointed by the Governor to serve on the North Carolina Board of Architecture.
Both begin their terms effective [...]

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The News & Observer’s May Home of the Month feature called “The outside-inside connection” was written by Mark Reyer, a graduate of the College of Design with a bachelor’s of environmental design in architecture and a master’s of architecture degrees. He is an architect in the Raleigh office of LS3P Associates.
Home of the Month is [...]

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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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Student teams from Professor Georgia Bizios’ ARC590E “Affordable Housing: Design Issues/Community Actions” hosted a project workshop on Friday, March 27. Community partners from the City of Rocky Mount, Durham Habitat for Humanity and Sander’s Service Center of Duplin County joined Bizios and the class for a morning of design presentations and discussion.

Community partners work with [...]

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Dr. Celen Pasalar, director of the College of Design’s Downtown Design Studio, has collaborated with the NCSU North Carolina Language and Life Project to establish the South Park-East Raleigh Neighborhood Association’s Preservation and Education Program. Its aim is to promote and preserve the presence and history of one of the oldest African-American communities in the [...]

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Professor of Architecture Georgia Bizios was the recipient of the Outstanding Extension Service Award. This award is given in recognition of Bizios’ dedication and demonstrated achievements in serving the people of North Carolina.
One of Bizios colleagues stated, “Professor Bizios has been the driving force behind the College of Design’s Home and Housing Design [...]

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The Natural Learning Initiative was featured in NC State University’s Research and Graduate Studies magazine Results. To read “Putting Active Designs into Play” download the article here.

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The Fourth Annual NC State University Graduate Student Research Symposium will be held next week - Wednesday, March 18, in the McKimmon Center. Please stop by any time from 1:30 to 4:00 to take a look at the graduate student poster presentations.
This year, there will be 157 poster presentations representing research being conducted in 60 [...]

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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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