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Different disciplines, similar goals UNIVERSITY FORMS FACULTY CLUSTERS TO IMPROVE RESEARCH

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Different academic departments are collaborating in an unprecedented way to bring N.C. State research to new heights.

The Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence program was founded in 2011 to hire researchers who could contribute to “strategic important areas” on campus. More than 70 proposals were submitted, and in 2012, 17 interdisciplinary groups, or clusters, were selected and allowed to hire new members to their research team, according to the program’s webpage.

Some of the research clusters were combined to form GRAPHIC BY AUSTIN BRYAN SOURCE: N.C. STATE PLANNING AND ANALYSIS

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N.C. State creates new way to search the web Katherine Kehoe Correspondent

N.C. State researchers created a more effective and personalized search engine. They recently developed a technique to make a search engine more efficient than previous attempts.

Kemafor Anyanwu, an assistant professor of computer science and a researcher who helped develop the search engine, said she hopes to see the new engine available for use by the end of this year, but said she wants it hosted on N.C. State’s campus first so that a limited num-

ber of users can try it first and give feedback.

“We will learn some things from that,” Anyanwu said. “We’re going to have to tweak it, now it’s all about tweaking things.”

The new search engine can handle more complex searches and provide users with more specific results.

According to an article on tgdaily.com, the version of the engine uses improved technology to support personalized searches for about 2,900 users at one time.

Researchers began working on this new and improved search engine in 2009. In 2011, they were confronted

with the problem of scaling-up the program effectively to encompass more users.

This is an improvement compared to an earlier version of the engine, which only supported 17 concurrent users.

Anyanwu said when searching for a new restaurant or a specific company name, regular search engines do fine.

But the problem with traditional browsers comes when a user is searching for exploration purposes rather than to find a specific piece of information.

Anyanwu gave the example of

when she wanted to find a list of university faculty members in the Triangle who work in the field of big data to try and find potential collaborators. Although many faculty members have professional information about their personal webpages, traditional search engines are designed to produce only one result at a time—as opposed of a list of relevant sources.

“So what I would like to be able to search is something like ‘faculty big data research’ or something like that, and what I would like to be able to find is a list of webpages with faculty,” Anyanwu said. “These are

NSF grants $7.3 million to NCSU to promote novice science researchers Ravi Chittilla

often exploratory queries and they are not searches that define a certain thing that you are exploring, and often times you don’t get very good results with other search enginesv.”

The main difference in this new, improved search engine, is it uses past searches to provide more accurate results about perceived user interests.

Anwanyu said she was once listening to a talk about magic sets, which is a technique used in databases to make queries go faster, at a conference. She attempted a traditional

Bluegrass festival starts in downtown Raleigh today Grant Golden

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The National Science Foundation awarded Rob Dunn, an associate professor of biology at N.C. State, and his lab group a $7.3 million grant to recruit 10,000 teachers worldwide to participate in a five-year citizen science, or amateur researchers, initiative. It will bring teachers and their students together to do original scientific research and make their own discoveries.

Dunn will serve as the prinPHOTO COURTESY OF YOUR WILD LIFE cipal investigator of the grant, Middle and high school students work with teachers to make scientific discoveries. which will be an extension of a program he cultivated at the University, called Your Wild program. They will develop In addition, teachers from demo science, but students Life. course modules that will be these districts, as well as edu- making real discoveries.”

Holly Menninger, director used in middle schools in cators from Duplin, Durham, The lab group plans to of public science of Your Wild North Carolina and other Madison and Pitt counties, bring educators together Life, said the grant will bring schools worldwide. will be recruited to serve as by getting the message out together organizations from Seven school districts in the Kenan Fellows for the five- through blogs, news coveracross the state. Among oth- state will participate in the year project. age and social media. ers, it will include the Kenan development of curriculum These teachers will work to“We’ve long had a number Specialcurriculum NC State TC072013.pdf 1 7/29/2013 Fellows Program, which is and programs that help bring getherStudent to develop of educators out 5:09:55 there PM reach a teaching fellows program, the citizen science modules modules, will test and refine out to us, people who’ve been The Friday Institute, The alive for students and teach- them, and assist in training really eager to bring what we Science House and the N.C. ers. groups of teachers to success- do into their classroom, and Museum of Natural Sciences.

Wake, A lamance-Burl- fully use the activities in their we’re hoping they’ll spread Starting in summer 2014, ington and Pender coun- classes. the word,” Menninger said.

Student Special NC State TC072013.pdf 1 7/29/2013 5:09:55 PM the N.C. Museum of Natu- ties will develop and refine “The big thing we’re aimThe Your Wild Life proral Sciences will use the NSF model programs that use the ing for is to recruit 10,000 gram received national mefunding to hire four new citizen science modules to teachers,” Menninger said. dia attention and worked Student Special NC State TC072013.pdf 1 7/29/2013 5:09:55 PM post-doctoral researchers to support students working to “But mainly it will be to allow with tens of thousands of work together with teach- build critical skills in sum- students to bring real science ers from the Kenan Fellows mer bridge programs. into the classroom, not just CITIZEN continued page 3

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The International Bluegrass Music Association will hold its annual award ceremony this weekend. The awards ceremony—previously hosted in Nashville—will occupy Oak City this weekend, bringing its esteemed World of Bluegrass event with it.

North Carolina has a rich musical history. The state

has been home to some of the most iconic bluegrass musicians during the past century, so it’s rather fitting that one of the most highly acclaimed bluegrass festivals decided to settle in Raleigh.

North Carolina is home to some of the finest pickers from old and new times.

Legendary acts such as Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs laid a foundation for the classic

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Harvard professor speaks at NCSU Jess Thomas Correspondent

Sheila Jasanoff, a Pforzheimer professor of science, technology and studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, gave an informative lecture at N.C. State.

The lecture was busy enough that there were not enough chairs. Some faculty members and students were forced to sit on the floor.

William Kinsella, associate professor of communication at N.C. State, introduced the multi-award winning and renowned speaker.

“Within the field of [science and technology studies], there is no one that does not know the name of Sheila Jasanoff,” KinStudent Special Student NC State Special TC072013.pdf Student NC State Special TC072013 1 NC 7/29/ St sella said. “She is highly respected, not only as an intellectual

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On Thursday the Technician published a graphic that accompanied the article “Student Senate votes on proposed fee increase.” There were two changes made to the information in that graph after press time.

We said Transportation’s supported fee was $27.47 it’s now $32.98.

We said Education/Technology’s supported fee was $20 it’s now $18.41.

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citizen scientists of all ages in projects such as School of Ants, which studied the biodiversity of ants all around the world.

Another project, called Belly Button Biodiversity, had amateur researchers look at skin microbes that lived in their belly buttons.

“With those projects, we were able to reach a very wide audience and something very exciting was going on,” Menninger said. “The public was really eager to get involved with scientific research— particularly those which involved biodiversity in their daily lives, in their body, in their homes and in their backyards.”

Jenifer Corn, adjunct assistant professor in the college of education, will serve as one of the key project leaders, and will lead the program’s evaluation standards.

According to Corn, the challenges of the program will be fitting different modules to unique students, noting differences based not just on location, but socioeconomic statuses and previous exposure to science and inquiry based education.

Corn said an important part of her job will be to observe what happens “when you have something designed by educators and scientists here in North Carolina and take it to Australia,” and decide “what critical components make it a positive learning experience.”

To learn more about how to involved or register for the “citizen science” program, visit http://education.yourwildlife.org/

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12 separate groups that specialize in either bioinformatics, data-driven science, the digital transformation of education, environmental health and science, innovation and design, personalized medicine or other areas.

Clusters include some surprising combinations, such as genetics and entomology— also known as the study of insects.

The genetic engineering and society research group consists of faculty from the departments of communication, biology, interdisciplinary studies, mathematics, forestry and environmental resources and entomology.

The cluster has hired three new faculty members in the social sciences and humanities, “with specific expertise in examining cultural, policy, and economic aspects of genetically modified organisms,” according to the group’s abstract on the N.C. State cluster hire web page.

William Neal Reynolds Professor of Entomology and Cluster Coordinator for Genetic Engineering and Society, Fred Gould, explained his department’s role in conducting interdisciplinary research.

According to Gould, genetically engineered corn, cotton, soybeans and other crops have been designed to have a protein-related toxin produced that kills insect pests.

“When you grow cotton or corn, for example, in North Carolina, some of the specific pests [that target those crops] will die because it’s producing a toxin that was engineered into those crops from a bacteria that used to be used as a biological control agent,” Gould said.

Gould said a group of faculty members in the entomology department are engineering insect pests to control and manage their populations.

The concept is known as genetic pest management. “[Researchers in the cluster] engineer an insect, like a mosquito that transmits

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dengue or malaria, so it can no longer transmit those diseases and you release those insects into certain populations to decrease the severity of those diseases or you take an agricultural pest and you engineer it so it population size goes down,” Gould said.

Antony Harrison, English professor and director of graduate programs in English at N.C. State, worked on the proposal selection committee to decide what groups got to hire new members.

Harrison said the committee looked for proposals that reinforced existing strengths in scholarship and research at N.C. State and also heightened its reputation.

“We wanted proposals that were compelling in making an argument for how a given cluster hire might increase or enhance the visibility of the University nationally or internationally in terms of the research agenda people in the cluster hired,” Harrison said.

Harrison also said certain members of the proposal committee probably had their own agenda despite agreeing

about broader concepts.

“One of the things I considered was not only how well thought through the proposals were…but also how a cluster might provide an opportunity for extracting external funding through funding and grants,” Harrison said.

Another cluster is translational regenerative medicine, which links research undertaken at N.C. State and other institutions. It includes faculty from the departments of materials science and engineering, biomedical engineering, clinical sciences, molecular biomedical sciences and industrial and systems engineering.

Elizabeth Loboa, an associate professor and associate chair of biological engineering, a joint program between N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill, explained the importance of the cluster.

Advances in stem cell research, tissue engineering and the large-animal availability at the N.C. State College of Veterinary Medicine, as well as the biomedical, science and engineering capa-

bilities of the University, has the potential to have a global impact, according to Loboa “We think our university has some key areas of strengths, that when we merge those together, we can bring something to the field of regenerative medicine by advancing new discoveries and advancing patient care,” Loboa said.

Specifically, Loboa said she has been conducting research in regenerative medicine, wound healing, muscular tissue engineering and other areas.

Loboa also discussed the benefits of conducting interdisciplinary research on a wide-scale.

“You hire someone not for their own expertise but also for how they can work together to grow an entire area,” Loboa said. “We want [the new hires] to be excellent faculty in their own strength but also have complimentary skill sets to grow our regenerative medicine initiative together in order to develop new products and procedures and to get them patients quicker.”

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online search to retrieve more information.

“Of course it gave me everything about toys,” Anwanyu said. “Yes, for some people that would have made sense, but for me at that time, it isn’t what I wanted to see.”

The search engine uses recent searches and organizes them into concepts.

For example, if a user searches for pictures of toucans then rainforest conservation and then endangered plant species, that user would be given a higher weight or numerical ranking in the system for the wildlife concept category.

If the same user also searches the speed of a Jaguar, he or she is more likely to receive statistics about the South American jungle cat instead of the British luxury vehicle.

However, numerical rankings for concepts are not stored forever.

The more a user searches for topics outside of a previously high-ranked concept, the weight of the original concept decrease, and the new one increases.

If that same user stopped browsing wildlife and began searching for golf, the weight for wildlife would decrease.

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leader and theorist of the STS field, but also as a program builder.”

Jasanoff founded the Department of Science, Technology and Studies at Cornell University, and then moved to Harvard where she is the founder of the Kennedy School of Government’s program about Science, Technology and Society.

The lecture lasted more

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Kemafor Ogan, an assistant professor of computer science, helped to develop a new search engine along with other N.C. State researchers.

The lower the weight, the less wildlife related results the user would receive.

Researches have avoided any privacy issues by designing a program that does not keep a record of each specific search.

“What we have that might make it a little easier for users to deal with is that we don’t explicitly store your que-

than an hour, and included a Q&A session afterwards in which four people asked questions.

One of the many topics Jasanoff spoke about during her lecture was the idea that bioconstitutionalism was prevalent. Bio-constitutionalism is related to the evolution of humans and how it can be related and applied to the U.S. Constitution.

“In the last 50 years, our understanding of what life is has changed tremendously, and we should rethink a lot

ries,” Anyanwu said. “We will say ‘you are kind of in the shopping context’ or ‘you are in the wildlife context’ and we will store those. We just store them as weights in a graph.”

Chris West, a sophomore in textile engineering, said the technology is a good idea, but he is skeptical of it because of recent privacy scandals.

West said he is concerned with the

of our pre-existing ways of guarding our liberties,” Jasanoff said.

She also talked about how governing rules vary across countries. According to Jasanoff, the nature of objectivity is transcendental, where in the U.K. it is empirical and observational.

Additionally, in the U.K., administrators are chosen by the issue-specific experience in their relevant field.

However, in Germany the government is made up of all relevant voices that are

search engine saving his personal information.

Taylor Looper, a junior in biological sciences, said she doesn’t see a privacy problem with the search engine because it does not save specific searches, only concepts.

“It sounds like it would make life a lot easier,” Looper said.

willing to accommodate the reasons of others.

“I thought it was really interesting the differences between the U.S. and other countries, and the ways we viewed expertise and scientific knowledge,” said William Crumpler, a sophomore in engineering who attended the lecture.

Jasanoff also questioned whether cells were subject to scientific governance, or subject to political governance.

“Is owning your genome, same as owning you, is it

the same as owning all your relatives as well because the genome contains shared information?

Jasanoff also added that many current laws in the country need to be rethought because humans have evolved a long way.

“These are all questions that we need to reconsider, they are questions of a constitutional nature that need be reconsidered in the light of the fact that we’ve changed the definition of what life is,” Jasanoff added.

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College value is not measured in dollars

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ayscale.com ranks more than 1,000 institutions based on the average mid-career salaries of their graduates. Payscale ranked N.C. State at the 165th spot, with an average mid-career salary of $86,800.

N.C. State is doing well compared to other public universities in the state. UNC-Chapel Hill is tied with Whittier College for the 310th spot. UNC-Charlotte, tied with two other schools, ranks 511, while East Carolina is tied for 729th and Appalachian State is tied for 820th.

We should be proud of our N.C. State alumni. But we should ask, is this a fair ranking system? Universities should be ranked based on the quality of the education they offer. Sure, a Princeton alum earns, on average, more than an N.C. State alum. And although we can probably attribute some of this to the fact that Princeton is a more recognizable name,

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“It should be ranked on basically how much the employers like the graduates.”

Eric Marsee freshman, computer science

“The percent of the class that gets a job with their major.”

Graham Marshall freshman, material science engineer

“How many people are satisfied with their major after they graduate.”

Jack Walsh sophomore, electrical engineer

“How many of the graduates get jobs within their major.”

Cady Whitehurst sophomore, political science and technology

The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board, excluding the news department, and is the responsibility of the editor-in-chief. there are several other factors to consider. less rigorous place and earn the same salaries.”

First, universities with Second, colleges that attract a lower acceptance rate more engineering students attract students who are such as N.C. State are of course more likely to work hard in more likely to produce higherschool, which means they paid alums than UNC-CH are more likely to get highsimply because engineers earn paying jobs regardless of more than people in liberal which college they attend. arts fields on average. Students’ As Maria Klawe, president course of study often has more of top-ranked Harvey Mudd to do with their salaries than College, said, “We’re proud does their alma mater. we’re getting the recogniThird, the average salary of Thomas Griffin director of tion, but it has very little graduates is largely continUndergraduate Amdissions to do with what we do–our gent upon their location in students aren’t picking us the United States as this has a for our salaries. They could study at a much dramatic effect on the cost of living, and sub-

“This ranking does seem out of line with other ranking systems related to jobs for graduates”

Digital waters, real world ripples

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he Internet has created more wealth for mankind in the last couple of decades than any other invention in the same span of time. Wealth is not money.

T he d i fference between money and we a l t h i s the same as Naman that of a fish Muley and the art Staff Columnist of fishing.

The Internet has been instrumental in catalyzing a number of real changes.

When money became digitized, we started seeing the real ripples caused by a digital world.

Tomislav Nikolic, the president of Serbia, unveiled a statue of the great Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla at the inauguration ceremony of the Tesla Science Center at Shoreham, N.Y. The Tesla Science Center is a museum built out of Tesla’s old laboratory. Matthew Inman, better known as ‘The Oatmeal’, started an online campaign to buy the land for the museum.

As a technology f rea k, Inman’s comic about Tesla b ei ng t he coolest geek inventor was noticed by Jane Alcorn, t he president of the nonprofit group - Tesla Science Center. The campaign - “ L e t ’s build a god- - Ni kol a Tesla museum” - was started on the online crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo.

The goal of $850,000 was achieved within days of the launch. The campaign raised $1.3 million, and the state of New York paid $850,000.

The Tesla Science Center bought the Wardenclyffe facility for $1.6 million and converted it into the Nikola Tesla museum.

The solid three-quarter length statue showing Tesla with his hands outstretched, apparently engaged in some

sort of scientific experiment, is a direct physical result of the outreach of the Internet. Separately, Inman was also called for a consultation

by Disney for a future film project about the Serbian inventor.

A giant 10-foot-tall statue of Robocop, the sci-fi lawand-order hero, will adorn Detroit as a result of a Kickstarter campaign that raised $67,000 in just six days.

Kickstarter is a company that provides online portals for starting crowdfunding campaigns such as Indiegogo.

These campaigns signify the reach that the Internet has today. The Internet successfully created a channel between the interests of people, which lays distributed throughout the world and the physical realization of those interests.

Open-source sof t wa re adorns the data warehouses of technology giants such as Google, Facebook or Microsoft where it saves billions of dollars, it has impacted society. Online revolutions are a reality now. The huge awareness campaigns against surveillance and keeping the Internet free are examples of this phenomenon.

Speaking of awareness campaigns, t here are rea l world revolutions brought by the Internet.

The Movember is an awareness campaign for men’s health and research into prostate cancer. The Movember campaign urges men to keep a mustache for the month of November each year and donate for people or organizations who need monetary help with men’s health awareness programs or medical research programs.

The Internet and its physical impact cannot be overemphasized. However, the question remains how the Internet pulls up other fields of science and technology such as biology, horticulture and engineering among others.

“The Internet and its physical impact cannot be overemphasized.

However, the question remains how the Internet pulls up other fields of science and technology ... ”

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sequently the median income of a household.

For instance, the median household income in Maryland was $70,000 in 2011, whereas it was $36,919 in Mississippi that same year.

“This ranking does seem out of line with other ranking systems related to jobs for graduates,” according to Thomas Griffin, director of Undergraduate Admissions at N.C. State.

“From the standpoint of providing useful information to students, rankings are only as good as their methodology. Some ranking systems use clear and reasonable methodology and others use questionable methodology.

“Rankings can be easily skewed by poor survey methods or by inappropriate weighting of elements used in the rankings,” Griffin said. “Unfortunately, many busy students and parents don’t have the time to look into the details of the ranking system and take rankings at face value.”

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Hypocrites decide behind a spoon full of caviar

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ur country is divided. Though the line is not completely clear and defined, there is a definite division. On one side of the line people enjoy lavish meals at fancy restaurants with overpriced food.

On the other Taylor Quinn side of that Staff Columnist line families struggle to find where their next meal is coming from, haunted by grumbling stomachs—they pay with food stamps in hopes of filling their family’s stomachs with the necessities like bread and water. However, neither side understands what it is like to live like the other, so why would either blindly make cuts that would affect millions on the other side.

Last Thursday, house republicans passed a bill that will cut billions of dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

According to the congressional budget office, nearly four million people will be removed from the food stamp program under the house bill starting next year. That means that about 14 million people over ten years will be removed from the program, according to an article in The New York Times.

But I’m not the only one

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who feels the food stamp program should not have been decreased—last week a democratic house representative made a speech outlining the way she felt, which is shockingly similar to my feelings on the subject. Who would have thought I wasn’t the only one?

According to Representative Jackie Speier, who delivered the speech, many of the representat i ve s w ho had a hand in ma k ing the cuts get a plet hora of money when t hey go on ‘business trips’ to eat and pay nothing out of the pocket.

According to Speier, one member received $127.41 a day for food on his trip to Argentina where he ordered steak, vodka and caviar— yup, caviar. The people who will be taken off of their food stamps can barely eat three meals a day but the people making cuts are living the life of luxury.

How is that fair? Well, it simply isn’t.

The ‘rich’ creating laws that effect the ‘poor’ gives me as much nausea in my stomach as men creating laws that af-

fect woman—it makes no sense. No person can dictate others’ lives because they have no idea what it is like to be them.

Speier mentioned that her and a few other democrats have taken the challenge of living on food stamps for a week, but mentioned that no republicans have actually tried it. Well, isn’t that somethin’?

They are quick to make changes that won’t affect them when t hey have never wa l ked i n the other’s shoes—in this case standing beh i nd a n ever-empty shopping cart.

I think these republicans should feel the pain of hunger and live the feelings of defeat because they cannot feed their children before they cut people from the program.

They should think about each and every child that will experience hunger during the day before they shove more caviar in their mouths. They should change their votes along with their attitudes and think about the people their legislation will affect, not the money it will save.

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Finding fame on the small screen Kevin Schaefer Staff Writer

N.C. State alumnus Rob Underhill excitedly presented the pilot episode of his hopeful TV series, Fever Dreams, for a second time at the Lincoln Theatre last Wednesday.

About 700 people attended the event hosted by RAW Natural Born Artists where Underhill and his crew received a wealth of praise for his first TV pilot.

With more than ten years of experience in filmmaking, Underhill, 38, has received critical acclaim for his numerous credits as a writer, director, editor, and producer.

“I really got into quality filmmaking around 2005,” Underhill said. “I worked with Aravind Ragupathi, the cinematographer of The Agent, early on in my career.”

Underhill created several short films before graduating with an English degree in 2007, the same year he created his first public film, Bench Warmers. He began working with theatre productions for various companies in North Carolina beginning in 1998, and in 2004 Underhill incorporated Wake Drama, his nonprofit film production house. Much of his success thus far stems from his organization and ambition.

“I’ve always been into organizing people and doing different things,” Underhill said. “I was involved in a lot

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Film director, producer, screenwriter and editor Rob Underhill is an alumnus of N.C. State with a degree in English and has more than ten years of production experience. Underhill is currently working on several projects, including post production for The Cameraman and Box Brown.

of different groups back in high school, and I acquired a lot of directing experience from doing theatre for about five years.”

When it comes to artists striving to make their work accessible to the public, Underhill said it’s all about perseverance and making as many contacts as you can.

“I’m always meeting new people because it’s the nature of the business,” Underhill said. “I work as an independent filmmaker but I’m al-

ways making contacts with people from different companies and pitching various projects to executives from all over. I also do a lot of work with Sony Media.”

The Agent is the pilot in a series which Underhill and screenwriter/producer Al Julian have entitled Fever Dreams. In addition to presenting the episode last week, Underhill also announced that he and his crew recently finished shooting the series’ second episode, The Camera-

man.

“With the amount of praise The Agent received, I look forward to seeing where the show will go,” Underhill said.

Underhill’s next major projects include a sci-fi series that he co-created titled The Carrington Event and another feature film titled Box Brown.

The Carrington Event premiered in May of this year, and it has already received “Best Drama” at the Wilmington Film Awards, along

with five other nominations.

Set in a large, Southern town, the series follows the lives of the Carrington family in the wake of a massive power outage. While still independently owned, Underhill said major networks are considering to air his show.

Underhill’s drama, Box Brown, follows American slave Henry Brown in his quest for freedom in the year 1849. The film is set to release later this year and includes cast and crew-members from

Fever Dreams and other Underhill productions.

One of his most recent and critically acclaimed projects is also a drama entitled DAR HE: The Lynching of Emmett Till. Set in 1955, this film examines the murder of Emmett Till and how it was a spark that ignited the civil rights movement. This picture earned eight awards at various film festivals and holds an 8.1 score on Internet Movie Database.

Julian discussed his experience working with Underhill on Fever Dreams and his shared excitement in regards to the show.

“Rob is a consistent pleasure to work with,” Julian said. “Confident, competent, upbeat and extremely well organized. All essentials in a good director, which Rob certainly is.”

Julian said he looks forward to continuing his career alongside Underhill.

“Rob and I are equally excited to see how our second collaboration, and the second episode of the Fever Dreams series, The Cameraman, comes out.”

Underhill’s filmography can be found on IMDb as well as his website, robunderhill.wix.com. He will also participate in an N.C. State alumni-student networking event Tuesday, Oct. 1 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Caldwell Lounge.

University Theatre off to a strong start with Arcadia Kevin Schaefer Staff Writer

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 University Theatre kicked off its fall season with an excellent production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. This British comedy-drama with a solid cast and well-done technical effects provides a good night of entertainment for theatregoers and casual viewers.

Set in both 1809 and present day within an English country house, the play intertwines two stories that take place in each of these time periods together.

The 1809 story follows teenage daughter Thomasina Coverly (Natalie Michelle Sherwood), an inquisitive and mathematically gifted girl with ideas well ahead of her time. Thomasina studies with tutor Septimus Hodge (Alexander Smith), a friend of an unseen houseguest Lord Byron.

In the present, a pair of modern scholars investigates Byron’s mysterious life. This pair consists of writer Hannah Jarvis (Emma Yates) and Bernard Nightingale (Jason Tyler Corder), a pompous literary professor. The two continue their investigation with the aid of a mathematical biology student named Valentine Coverly (Michael Taylor) and gradually reveal key aspects of Thomasina’s story.

Director Allison Bergman utilizes the set to provide a compelling vision to this show. The manner in which she and the production’s technical crew distinguish the two different time periods add to the overall intrigue.

With precise detail devoted to the layout of the house and the various props used, Bergman does a formidable job of immersing audiences into the story.

The show’s costuming also coincides well with each setting. The upper-middle-class characters from both stories present a certain element of dignity and sophistication through their costumes.

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Arcadia takes place in both the past and present. The play follows the story of Thomasina Coverly (Natalie Michelle Sherwood) and Septimus Hodge (Alexander Smith).

As far as acting goes, the cast does a nice job of working together as an ensemble while also delivering solid individual performances.

The male characters are primarily pompous and selfcentered, which allows room for development as the story progresses. Sherwood and

Smith demonstrate effective chemistry on stage, which makes for an intriguing onstage relationship.

Yates and Corder’s shrewd remarks and overconfidence are fun to watch. In addition, it provided a basis for a subplot to unfold. Their investigation gradually turns into a

rivalry between them, which adds a nice twist to the overall plot.

While the cast members’ British accents aren’t f lawless, each member of the cast does an effective enough of a job with their characterization that it becomes overshadowed.

In terms of the script, the only factor which many viewers might find irritable is that it’s far too lengthy. This show is a good three hours and many scenes drag on for unnecessary portions of time. If the play was condensed to a

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two-hour runtime, the overall flow would likely be better maintained.

Nevertheless, Stoppard’s skill as a dramatist is as well demonstrated here as it is in his other works. Known for the absurdist satire Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which uses characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this play also expresses his ability to deliver witty dialogue and cleverly executed thematic material.

The parallels between the 1809 story and the modern day one are perhaps the most intriguing element of the

script.

Although Arcadia is a comedy and a drama, it is not laugh out loud funny throughout. While there are humorous moments, much of the play develops relationships between its characters and explores tragic themes expressed at certain moments that may surprise viewers.

While not perfect, Arcadia is effectively executed by the University Theatre department, and is the first of many other productions this season. Arcadia plays at N.C. State’s Thompson Theatre from Sept. 25 to Oct. 6 and specific show times can be found at ncsu.edu/theatre.

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The World of Bluegrass event combines an awards ceremony with conventions, trade shows and a massive concert series, which all kicked off this past Tuesday.

The sprawling event will be home to unique performances from revered artists such as Béla Fleck—who performed with the N.C. Symphony earlier this week—Del McCoury, The Punch Brothers and Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers, according to IMBA’s website.

More than 100 artists will fill out eight venues throughout the weekend, according to IMBA’s website, saturating downtown Raleigh with plenty of banjo, among other traditional bluegrass sounds.

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Friday and Saturday will also mark some of the festival’s marquee performers.

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Friday night Del McCoury, Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas and Mark Schatz will collaborate and Steve Martin & The Steep

Canyon Rangers will take the stage Saturday. Tickets to those events have sold out, but there are still plenty of bluegrass events in downtown Raleigh that won’t cost a dime.

The IBMA will be in Raleigh at least until 2015, when the festival will presumably set-up shop at yet another esteemed hub for bluegrass music.

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N.C. State will try to close “The biggest thing is that out a four-game home stretch we just played until the last on a high note this Saturday second was on the clock,” at Carter-Finley Stadium Doeren said. “I’ve got a club against Central Michigan. of guys that fight. They’re State (2-1, 0-1 ACC) has tough and they don’t quit. played the Chippewas (1-3, That’s something I can build 0-1 MAC) only once before, a program around until we beating them 38-24 in Ra- get healthy and have enough leigh during the 2011 sea- depth in the positions we son. But first-year head coach need to have it in. That was Dave Doeren is familiar with the one thing I was really the Chippewas. proud of the players for.”

Doeren, Doeren previously praised the the head toughness coach of of junior Northern quarterback Illinois, Pete Thomcoached as, who will against Cenmake his tral Michithird start gan in each in Wolfpack of the past red this SatDave Doeren, two seasons urday. football head coach as pa r t of “I think he Mid-Americompeted can Conference play. North- extremely hard,” Doeren ern Illinois won the teams’ said. “There were some plays, most recent clash in 2012, like there always are, that he routing the Chippewas, 55- wishes he had back. But the 24. biggest thing we have to do Following a hard-fought is build on the performance loss to No. 3 Clemson last we just had and get better.”

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“Part of what we do offensively is show a lot of looks, shifts, trades and motions that requires a lot of focus,” Doeren said. “Some of the mistakes we’re making are mental and we have to clean those up.”

On the other side of the ball, senior linebacker Robert Caldwell has proven to be a pleasant surprise for Wolfpack fans this season.

Caldwell, a junior college transfer, leads the Pack with 30 tackles this season, including four tackles-for-loss. The senior is making plays in the heart of State’s defense, and this productiveness doesn’t surprise his teammates.

“I was his [Caldwell’s] roommate last year, and we talked all the time about how when we get on the field and get our chance, we’re going to make it happen,” sophomore linebacker M.J. Salahuddin said. “He’s always been a passionate football player and we feed off of that emotion. He’s definitely leading us right now to where we’re supposed to be. “ For all the hype surrounding the Wolfpack’s new faster-paced offense this season, State’s defense is the unit that is winning acclaim among the Wolfpack faithful. The

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19. Thomas had 213 passing yards in the Wolfpack’s 26-14 loss to the Tigers at Carter-Finley Stadium.

Pack has allowed more than 20 points per game this season, giving State’s offense the chance to put points on the board while opponents are contained offensively.

Salahuddin said State’s defense is becoming better with each passing game.

“I think we’ve grown tre-

mendously from spring camp through fall camp to now,” Salahuddin said. “We’re becoming closer as a family.

We’re trusting each other with our assignments. We’re doing what we’re supposed to, and now we just have to keep building on that.”

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Stengel scores again, but Hokies handle Pack Zack Ellerby Correspondent

The No. 16 Virginia Tech Hokies scored two goals during both halves to beat N.C. State 4-1 in Raleigh on Thursday night.

Freshman forward Jackie Stengel, a breakout performer for the Wolfpack, scored N.C. State’s only goal.

“She’s our best player,” head coach Tim Santoro said. “We just have to get a little more around her, and we’ll be a better team.”

Virginia Tech (8-1, 3-1 ACC) outshot the Wolfpack (6-4, 1-3 ACC) 16-7 during the course of the game. The Hookies moved the ball effectively all night while pressuring the Pack into mistakes all night.

“In this conference you can’t give away weak goals,” Santoro said. “You can’t play for 65 minutes; we’re not a complete team right now.”

Virginia Tech dominated the Wolfpack early during the match. The Hokies quickly pushed the ball down the field and rarely allowed the

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Freshman forward Jackie Stengel bounces the ball off her chest during the soccer match against No. 16 Virginia Tech at Dail Soccer Field Thursday Sept. 26. The Wolfpack fell to the Hokies 4-1.

Wolfpack to get into any offensive rhythm.

The loss is State’s third straight conference loss after beating Pittsburgh on Sept.

15. The Pack’s next game is against ACC opponent Boston College (2-5, 1-2 ACC) on Sunday.

Virginia Tech scored early to put the Pack on its heels.

Virginia Tech forward Ashley Meier broke through the N.C. State defense in the sixth minute and scored an unassisted goal, placing the ball just out of N.C. State goalkeeper Mackenzie Stelljes’

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After an N.C. State foul, Virginia Tech striker Katie Yensen scored off a penalty kick. Yensen fired the ball through the bottom left corner of the goal putting the Hokies up 2-0 in the 19th minute.

The Hokies looked strong defensively against the Pack, holding State to three shots in the first period and seven shots for the game.

Stengel momentarily got State back in the game. In the 60th minute, senior defender Megan Proper whipped in a

cross to Stengel, who powered her header past Tech’s goalkeeper.

Stengel’s eighth goal of the season gave new life to the Wolfpack, who had been struggling to build offensive momentum.

“It was a great ball by Meagan Proper,” freshman striker Jackie Stengel said. “She’s been hitting them to me all night and I finally got on the end of it.”

In the closing minutes, Tech put the game to bed.

Hokie defender Taylor Antolino scored a header in the 75th minute to put Tech up 3-1. Tech striker Katie DeTuro scored her team’s fourth goal of the night, another header in the 78th minute to effectively end the contest.

Santoro was disappointed by the lack of effort and attention the Wolfpack gave during the game, and he believes his team has more to learn.

“We’re not at the standard you need to be in the ACC for 90 minutes,” Santoro said.

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