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students of La Universidad Rafael Landivar and traditional Mayan artisans in Guatemala that happened this summer and is funded through an NC State International Seed Grant that Hooper recently won.

Fernando Magallanes, landscape architecture, will receive an award for excellence in teaching and public service by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) at its annual meeting held September 21-25 in Atlanta.

Lee-Anne Milburn, landscape architecture, became a licensed landscape architect. She also presented referred presentations: three regional, 10 national, and four international.

Robin Moore, landscape architecture and Natural Learning Initiative, was featured in the March 2005 edition of Landscape Architecture, in an article titled “Go Out and Play: On Robin Moore’s Playgrounds, Nature is the Attraction.”

Robin Moore and Nilda Cosco, Natural Learning Initiative, participated in the four-year long research process to produce “The Preschool Outdoor Environment Measurement Scale (POEMS),” now published as a collaborative effort with colleagues from NC State University Cooperative Extension Service; The Department of Human Development and Family Studies, UNC-Greensboro; a health and safety expert. The publication was designed by Claudia Winegarden, who recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Design. This valid, reliable instrument is expected to become the standard for measuring the quality of outdoor childcare center environments.

Vita Plume, art + design, had one of her pieces accepted into an internationally juried exhibition as part of the International Shibori Symposium in Japan. The exhibition’s title is “Textile Catalysts: Shibori Shaping the 21st Century.” The show took place from May 15 - June 12, 2005 at the Tama Art University Museum in Tokyo.

Dana Raymond, art + design, will teach at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts this fall while on scholarly leave. He will be leading a class of students in a public sculpture project in the capital city of Naha.

Wendy Redfield, architecture, received promotion to associate professor with tenure and assumed the position of Associate Director of the School of Architecture. Her duties as Associate Director include serving as Director of Graduate Programs and Studio Coordinator of Professional Degree Programs.

Art Rice, landscape architecture, was named Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Research and Extension.

Henry Sanoff, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, recently returned from a lecture tour in Yokohama, Hiroshima, Nagoya and Yonago which was spon sored by the Japan Institute of Architects and the Nagoya Institute of Technology. The topics var ied from waterfront development in Hiroshima to community development. Sanoff has also been invited to the Design Share Education Forum in Barcelona and invited by the Portugese Institute of Architects to speak about school design in Lisbon.

Will Temple, graphic design, was hired as assistant professor beginning this fall. Temple holds a B.A. in aesthetic therapy from the University of California Santa Cruz and an MFA in 2-D design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. During his two-year tenure as a visiting professor, Temple taught a range of courses from fundamentals to advanced graphic design studio. His most recent studio “Reading Raleigh: Making Downtown Legible” was offered this spring in the new Downtown Design Studio.

Paul Tesar, architecture, was selected as the single NC State University recipient of the Board of Governors’ Teaching Award. This is the University’s highest teaching award. See story, page 4.

Scott Townsend, graphic design, mounted an exhibition of new work at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y., and was visiting artist there during the month of May. The Visual Studies Workshop is an internationally recognized center for media studies. His work was included in a group show in Marraciabo, Venezuela, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in May and June. Townsend also had an article published in Brujula (an international peer reviewed journal by the Center for Hemispheric Studies) on the use of interactive visualizations in bilingual communities and wrote a chapter titled “Using the Tools of Visualization as a Critical Practice” in Techne: Design Wisdom, by Wolfgang Jonas (Ashgate, London).

Hazel Tudor, registrar, was honored for 25 years of service to the University at an awards ceremony held August 25 at The McKimmon Center.

Leslie Young, Center of Universal Design, received a Triangle Access Award for Outstanding Achievement in Removing Architectural Barriers. The Alliance of Disability Advocates presented the awards on July 21, 2005, at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Graphic Design Student Lends a Hand to the Fight Against Internet Predators State officials hope a new resource guide designed by Caroline Okun (senior, graphic design), in conjunction with the N.C. Department of Justice (NCDOJ), will give parents the knowledge and resources they need to protect their children from the dangers that lurk on the World Wide Web. As part of a class project, 15 students from NC State assistant professor Tony Brock’s graphic design studio submitted proposals to the NCDOJ for the “Internet Safety: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt Your Child,” brochure. The NCDOJ selected Okun’s design to print and distribute to parents across the state with an accompanying video and other resources . “We were pleased to have the NC State College of Design work on this important project that will help children surf the Internet safely,” said N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper. “Thanks to great design work by NC State students, we were able to put together an Internet safety resource guide for parents that is both informative and eye-catching.”

Below: Caroline Okun,

Attorney General Roy Cooper and Tony Brock

Computer Gaming Studio a Collaborative Effort The Computer Game Development Showcase, the semester-ending presentation of student projects in the combined courses covering computer game development taught by the Computer Science Department and the Department of Industrial Design, was held in May in the Kamphoefner Hall auditorium . Projects highlighted during the showcase were the result of semester-long collaborative efforts between teams formed from students in Computer Science’s course on Computer Game Design and Development and Industrial Design’s 3-D Realtime Modeling and Animation Studio. Each team presented a completed 3-D game with custom artwork, 3-D models, game play, character artificial intelligence (AI) and

interface design developed by the team members.

The event began with a series of presentations by the project teams introducing their games. Following the presentations, all games were accessible at PCs set up in the auditorium, providing attendees the oppor tunity to play the games and talk with the developer to learn more about the art and science that went into their construc tion. The event was open to the public. Both the Independent Weekly and The News & Observer covered the gaming studio.