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Devki Gharpure, junior in architecture, was one ofa group of12 College of Design students who participated in a self-initiated alternative spring break trip to Biloxi, Mississippi, to volunteer in the GulfCoast reliefeffort, from March 4-10. The group worked with Architecture for Humanity through the Hands On USA organization, camping outdoors at night and spending the work days on various building sites de-molding, gutting and tearing out interiors, reroofing, and/or clearing out tree limbs. Some ofthe group returned to Biloxi this summer. They hope to establish a tradition of a design and volunteeroriented trip annually during spring holiday.

Photos from student trip to assist Katrina victims in Biloxi.

Industrial Design student Chris Owens, who transferred into design from mechanical engineering last year, made an Internet splash when he completed a design fundamentals project that required the use ofLEDs or batteries. His five-week project culminated as an illuminated shelving system. The weight ofitems on each ofthe three sections ofthe shelf triggers the illumination. In the photos above, all three sections have been triggered. “I was extremely excited to see the words ‘North Carolina State University’ and ‘design’ together on the front page ofsites like Engadget.com and Gizmodo.com,” said Owens. “I have seen this project posted to large German and Italian blogs, among others. Hopefully, this has brought some additional international attention to what we have going on here in our program.”

Industrial Design Graduate Student Robert Bailis won First Prize at NC State University for his design, “Aqua Flight,” in the 2006 Rhein Medall Prize for Community Art. The annual art contest, which is sponsored by Rhein Medall Communities ofCharlotte, N.C., included sculpture designs from students attending several universities in North Carolina. Bailis received $3,000 for winning First Prize in the contest’s initial round ofjudging and also qualified for competition against the First Prize winners From the other participating schools for the 2006 Rhein Medall Prize for Community Art Grand Prize. The theme ofthis year’s competition was “Water’s Connection With the Environment.”

In the fifth annual Collection: Art to Wearfashion show held April 7, Amanda Barrett included four pieces made out ofmaterial from the Gates in Central Park project, the famous public art project by the artist Cristo. The material was sent by the artists to a textile recycling center.

Graphic Design graduate students Tyler Galloway (BGD 2006) and Jon Harris collaborated to produce one of90 winning entries for “: output,” the international student graphic design competition based in Germany. Their work, “Global Loves Local symposium poster,” will be published in a book, : output 09, this fall.

Graphic Design graduate students Jamie Gray (MGD 2006) and Tyler Galloway (MGD 2006) were presenters at the Duke University International Student Conference “Thinking Through New Media.” Gray presented “Digital Collecting: Designing Tools for Online Collecting Behaviors,” while Galloway presented “iTunes: Music Mediator, Social Facilitator,” a paper prepared for Professor Scott Townsend’s graphic design seminar last year. Most other presenters were Ph.D. candidates form the United States and abroad, including UC Berkeley, Stanford, Duke and the University of Edinburgh. Jon Harris, master ofgraphic design student, working with colleagues at IBM, two ofwhich are NC State College ofDesign alumni, Wilbert Joyner (BGD 2001) and Tyler Walters (BGD 2001), recently received a patent for a graphic user interface for database manipulation. The patented interface appears within IBM software named BSE (or business strategy execution). The idea is to use a visual editor to drag information for manipulating scheduling and financial databases instead of manually entering and editing figures.

Master ofIndustrial Design student Harnish Jani had his conceptual design “Lapalmtop –Personal Computing Assistant” included in the Spring 2006 Innovations magazine. Innovations is produced quarterly by the Industrial Designers Society of America. Jani’s design was featured in a section titled “The New Face ofConsumer Electronics.” His was the only student concept featured in the section. For more information visit www.ncsuidsa. org/hvjani.

Freshmen Zena Jeffress, majoring in architecture, and Alexandra Wiedemann, majoring in graphic design, have been named as Park Scholars for 2006. The Park Scholarships program is among America’s most prestigious undergraduate merit scholarship programs. The scholarships pay expenses for four years ofstudy at NC State, and include a computer stipend and funds foracademic enrichment activities. Ph.D. Candidate in Design Orcun Kepez received first place recognition in NC State’s first Graduate Symposium held during spring semester. Kepez was one offour first place winners, based on discipline. The name ofKepez’s research is “The Effect of Space on Health and Well-Being: An Environmental Assessment for Home-like Long-term Care Settings.” His Ph.D. committee members include: Dr. John Tector, chair; Robin Moore (Design), Henry Sanoff (Design, Emeritus), Dr. Christopher Mayhorn (Psychology) andDr. ChuckKorte (CHASS-Emeritus). This is Kepez’s second award from NC State during the 2005-06 academic year. In fall 2005, he received a Graduate Research Grant from Institute for Nonprofits. This grant was awarded to two graduate students whose work is relevant to research agenda ofInstitute for Nonprofits.

Traci Rider, Ph.D. student, earned her B.Arch. from the University ofCincinnati in 2000 and her master’s from Cornell University in Environmental Sociology in 2005. In 2003 Rider was recognized in dwell Magazine as the featured Nice Modernist (July/August issue) for her work with the US Green Building Council's Emerging Green Builders program. She received a USGBC National Leadership Award last November for the same, which led to Rider being featured in May 2006 issue ofVanity Fairas one ofthe Re-Inventors. There is an Emerging Green Builders group in the Triangle and she’s actively recruiting NC State students.

Graphic Design graduate student Reneé Seward was selected as a recipient ofthe Larsen Design Award, a $2,000 scholarship, through the Worldstudio AIGA 2006-2007 Scholarship Program. There were only 17 winners from the more than 550 applications submitted.

Art+ Designseniors Phoebe Wei Wang, multimedia, (project shown above, top) and Hollin Norwood, fibers, (project shown above) were included in Launched: First Annual North Carolina Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, August 11-September 9. This was the McColl CenterforVisual Arts’ FirstAnnual North Carolina Undergraduate Juried Exhibition. Launched was a special opportunity for Art Departments to highlight talented students while providing them with professional development experience and an opportunity to exhibit their work in a major contemporaryartvenue inthe State ofNorthCarolina. Ashley Winfree, a junior majoring Environmental Design in Architecture, was awarded a Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grant to study at the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute during the 2006 summer program in Florence, Italy. The Florence summer program is an intensive five-week program offering courses in Art History, Art and Design, History and Italian and also includes three academic excursions.

Second-Year Graphic Design student Anna Zylicz’s t-shirt design was chosen for this year’s American Dance Festival in Durham. Zylicz created the design as part ofMartha Scotford’s studio. The shirts were available duringthe summer season (June 8-July22) at all ADF performances and at the ADF Store on Duke University’s East Campus. Starting this fall, t-shirts also will be for sale on ADF’s Web site, www.americandancefestival.org.

Several Landscape Architecture students and recent alumni had their abstracts selected for presentation atthe Council ofEducators inLandscape Architecture 2006 Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, in June. NC State students presenting were Jenny DeMarco, MLA ’06; Nicole Young, MLA ’06; Jennifer Fiskin, MLA ’06; and senior Emmita Lyford, BLA.

NC State University’s student team was the first place winner in a statewide competition to create an affordable and sustainable Habitat for Humanity home. Three N.C. Habitat for Humanity affiliates will build the team’s design. Also, the two winning teams will represent North Carolina in the US Green Building Council, Emerging Green Builders National Design Competition in Denver, Colo. NC State’s team offive received$5,000 in winnings. In moving toward the actual construction ofthis house the student team, team faculty and mentors, Habitat affiliates, designers, architects, and others met in Raleigh for a Design Charrette on May 2. Construction began this summer.

PRAGUE Berlin (in front ofone section ofthe East Side Gallery). From left: Jared, Jaclyn, Lauren, Rhiannon, Hilary, Aviva, Vanessa, Hollin, Saet. Emily was in the hospital recovering from her appendectomy! We missed her in Berlin.

NC State University College ofDesign industrial design students placed third and fourth in the 2006 Designs For Safety Competition in the World Traffic Safety Symposium, awarded on April 21 in NewYork. Third place winner was “Flashpoint” (left) by senior Charlotte Hanks and fourth place winnerwas “SigPac” (right) by sophomore Steven Bockmann. Associate Professor Bong-il Jin has guided winners from NC State in this competition for the last three years.