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N.C. State unveils new College of Sciences Sara Awad Staff Writer
N.C. State will unveil the College of Sciences on July 1, 2013. The decision to create the new college stemmed from a recommendation by Provost Warwick Arden and Vice Chancellor for Finance
and Business Charles Leffler of the Strategic Realignment Plan, which was established in January 2011. The decision was reached after the Academic Sciences Task Force conducted a series of studies over the course of one year. The task force, which is composed of faculty from all ten colleges, the
Graduate School and the Division of Undergraduate Programs, analyzed the best ways to enhance the natural synergies between the science programs at the University, according to Woodson. Dean Daniel Solomon of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences will take over as dean of the new college.
According to Chancellor Woodson’s announcement, the goal of the new college is to increase effectiveness and efficiency. The college will dissolve PAMS and include physics, chemistry, mathematics, statistics, and marine, earth and atmospheric sciences. The College of Agriculture and
Life Sciences and the College of Natural Resources will remain as two distinct colleges. However, the undergraduate biology program in CALS will move to the College of Sciences.
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Crime report Staff Report Students received a crime warning via email at 2:38 p.m. Friday detailing the events of a recent break-in and predation on Hillsborough Street. The suspect has yet to be found, according to Campus Police. The crime warning stated the incident occurred early Friday morning in a residence on Chamberlain Street. Campus Police confirmed that the Raleigh Police Department responded to the call, when the suspect allegedly entered an unlocked house that was occupied by two female N.C. State students. The report also states that the suspect “climbed into bed with one or both of the females where he rubbed his hands on the legs and backs of the females before they awoke...” According to the report the suspect left the area on foot, and neither student was injured. Raleigh police said they have investigated several other cases from 2011 involving someone who matches the suspect’s description. “All of the incidents have happened in the neighborhoods north of Hillsborough Street, and all were off-campus,” Campus Police reports said. The suspect in Friday’s case was identified by the victims as “a black male, approximately six feet tall, muscular build, dark complexion with a short afro,” the crime warning said. “In this incident, he was wearing a dark-colored T-shirt and jeans.” Students are advised to travel in groups, be aware of their surroundings and lock all doors and windows, even when at home. Campus police issued a similar but unrelated crime warning Saturday night. At 9:48 p.m. students received a second crime report stating that a female Tucker Hall resident entered her room earlier that morning to find an unknown man in her bed. According to the crime report, the female resident discovered her uninvited guest at approximately 6 a.m. The male suspect reportedly entered the female’s room through an unlocked door and fled the room without touching or harming her. The suspect was described in the report as a white male between 5’7” and 5’10”, weighing 150-160 pounds, with dark-colored “buzz cut” hair. The suspect has not been apprehended and is unrelated to Friday’s report.
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Nic Manning, a Garner resident and prospective N.C. State applicant, displays his wrestling awards he won before a 2010 car accident paralyzed him.
Beyond stubborn PROSPECTIVE N.C. STATE STUDENT STRIVES TO OVERCOME A CAR ACCIDENT THAT PARALYZED HIM AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HIS LIFE. STORY BY ANDREW BRANCH & MARK HERRING | PHOTOS BY JORDAN MOORE Sitting in his wheelchair admiring his athletic awards with his grandmother, Nic Manning reminisced on his athletic achievements in high school. Nic has relied on that strength after a car wreck left him paralyzed two years ago and will need it as he adjusts to life after the accident. He hasn’t given up, even when doctors’ predictions were grim. Though his peers would call him reserved, Nic has a lot to say about perseverance. When his grandmother did everything she could to accommodate his new disability, a group of women stepped in to rebuild their lives.
WINNING ON THE MAT Wearing a red Wolfpack T-shirt and sipping from his McDonald’s cup in his grandmother’s living room, Nic, 21, still showed his past athletic prowess with his well-built, 6-foot-4 frame. “He was a small thing, but then when he got to about sixth or seventh grade he just shot up and started gaining weight,” his grandmother, Sandra, 56, said. “It was like ‘Oh boy where did he go?’” In middle school and throughout high school, Nic took advantage of his strength, playing football for three years and wrestling all four years at Athens Drive, Holly Springs and Middle Creek high schools.
“I always thought I would wrestle in high school,” Nic said. “So then, once I started and tried out my freshman year, I really got into it. It was pretty fun.” Sports were simply what he did — and he was always on the go. Nic graduated from Middle Creek in 2009. His plan was to attend Wake Technical Community College for two years and transfer to N.C. State for civil engineering. “I did drafting in high school, and the classes were fun and I enjoyed it,” Nic said. “I was thinking I should probably go into something in that field, so that’s when I took engineering so I could do some drafting classes and stuff like that.”
“I really thought he was gone.” Having finished his first year at Wake Tech, Nic got in his car to commute home like on any other day. “I was going down Old Stage [Road] and my car hydroplaned and I hit a tree head-on,” he said. “I broke my neck from the C5 through C7 [vertebrae] and broke my femur in my right leg, too.” The airbag in Nic’s car didn’t deploy, and the dazed teenager could only wait for help to come. “I can still remember it pretty vividly, sliding and hitting the tree,” Nic said. “I was just laying in the
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Researchers create patient-powered devices Jake Moser Staff Writer
Researchers at N.C. State are leading a nanotechnology project on Centennial Campus to create self-powered medical devices. The Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies developed the vision and assembled the team of researchers for the project, which includes many different schools doing specific jobs, according to the Veena Misra, director of ASSIST and a professor of computer and electrical engineering at the University. The project is working to create efficient tools like heart rate and respiratory monitors that are powered by the patients themselves. This would eliminate the
need for rechargeable batteries and wires. The devices will also be able to monitor environmental pollutants, like carbon monoxide and ozone, to pinpoint patients’ health problems. The project is being funded by an $18.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The University of Virginia will try to make the devices as energy efficient as possible; Pennsylvania State University will create the transistors and other electric material; and Florida International University will create the sensors used to gather data. UNC-Chapel Hill will provide medical guidance, and the University of Michigan will create radios used to send data from the devices to computers or other digital tools for analysis. “NCSU has the biggest number of people involved, but it is important that everyone in the team from other universities are critical partners,” Misra said.
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Veena Misra and John Muth work with the Center for Advanced SelfPowered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies.
The project can be broken down into two categories of devices: those efficiently harnessing patient energy, like body heat and body motion, and those using this harnessed energy to perform the necessary tasks researchers desire, like health and environmental monitoring.
The first category will be handled mostly by PSU researchers and the second category contains a few entities that will be focused on by several partners. The devices performing the medical tasks range
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