TECHNICIAN
tuesday april
21 2015
Raleigh, North Carolina
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IN BRIEF Students achieve national recognition
U.S. Supreme Court orders NC court to reconsider upholding Republican-drawn district lines
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court discarded a North Carolina Supreme Court ruling upholding the state’s Republican-drawn legislative and congressional districts, ordering the state Supreme Court to reconsider the factors that legislatures relied on while redrawing the lines. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the NC Supreme Court to decide if legislators relied too heavily on race when drawing the 2011 district maps. These maps determine who votes in which district and shape how the outcomes of elections are decided. The U.S. justices released the order Monday in light of a recent similar decision made in a case from Alabama. SOURCE: The News & Observer
William Crumpler, Catie McVey win top STEM honors with Goldwater scholarship Montana Gramer Correspondent
Two NC State students were recently awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, and one student received an honorable mention. The foundation, which was founded in 1986 to honor Senator Barry Goldwater, awards scholarships to college students based on their research in science, mathematics and engineering. William Crumpler, a junior studying material science and engineering, was awarded the scholarship on his work on nanoparticle synthesis. Crumpler has worked on making, synthesizing and coating nanorods, as well
as adjusting their size and shape after they’ve been grown. “The gold nanorods are of interest because when you irradiate them with light, their electronic properties are such that they begin to give off heat,” Crumpler said. “That has potential applications for cancer therapy. If you can get the gold nanorods to stick to the cancer cells, you can heat them up and it will actually burn the cancer away.” Crumpler also worked on the startup of Undercover Colors, a nail polish created by NC State students that potentially could detect date rape drugs. Since last January, Crumpler has worked as a research intern doing various tests of the indicators and polishes. Crumpler also spent last summer in Germany, working in a lab and researching nanoparticle synthesis. Catie McVey, a senior studying animal science and statistics, was awarded a scholarship
for her work with relating facial biometrics to personality traits in animals. “The project I’ve worked on here at NC State is using piglets as models and predicting which ones are really aggressive,” McVey said. “The idea is if you can predict, from a picture of a pig’s face, which ones are going to be aggressive, you can adjust which ones to put where and minimize fighting in the pins.” McVey has also worked with the statistics department on evaluating the tenure clock at NC State. According to McVey, the tenure clock allots an automatic one-year extension to both male and female faculty who have a new child. The program is meant to level out the playing field for faculty as they get renewed. “We’ve been going back through HR data and looking at before 2002, when there wasn’t a policy, and after 2002, when there was a policy, and seeing if there were changes in the rate in which professors get tenure,” McVey said.
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Lilly for Target sells out in one day
Smoothie shop draws crowds on opening day
Target’s highly-anticipated women’s clothing line in partnership with Lilly Pulitzer sold out online and in stores across the country within hours of its launch on Sunday. The clothes, handbags and housewares designed in the signature floral-print style of the popular designer brand sold at Target at a more affordable price. There were massive lines across the country outside of stores awaiting the release of the clothing, and the online demand briefly crashed Target’s website Sunday morning. Bargain hunters at several stores bought up carts full of merchandise at the beginning of the sale, angering some dedicated customers who waited in line for hours only to be met by empty racks of clothing. Within hours, many of the designs were posted for resale online on sites like eBay with hefty markups. SOURCE: The New York Post
Desisa wins Boston Marathon for the second time
Ethiopian runner Lelisa Desisa won the Boston Marathon for the second time Monday two years after winning his first medal hours before two bombs went off near the race’s finish line. In 2013, Desisa donated his medal to the city in honor of the victims of the bombing harmed or killed by the explosion. Carolina Rotich from Kenya was the women’s champion. Rotich won by four seconds after outsprinting Mare Dibaba on Boylston Street. Desisa, 25, won the marathon with an unofficial time of two hours, nine minutes and 17 seconds. He beat Yemane Adhane Tsegay in the 119th Boston Marathon by 31 seconds. SOURCE: AP
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SPORTS Previewing Pack sports’ summer slate See page 8.
SPORTS Gymnasts gain accolades at NCAAs See page 7.
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Surrounded by the family members of slain students Deah Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, Chancellor Randy Woodson announces the University’s establishment of the “Our Three Winners” scholarship endowment fund Feb. 20 at the Roy H. Park Alumni Center. The endowment will provide annual financial support to NC State students studying in the Poole College of Management, College of Sciences and College of Design.
Our Three Winners raise $170K Scholarship fund raises thousands of dollars to assist students in need Inez Nicholson Assistant News Editor
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rality of nationalities, heritages and origins that create such rich diversity on campus and remind us all of the unity of the Pack that brings us together.” Poole College of Management Dean Ira Weiss donated $1,000 on Beta Alpha Psi’s behalf and the organization raised another $1,000 through raf f le ticket sales. In total, Beta Alpha Psi raised $3,220 for the fund. Private donations made up the rest of the funding for the scholarship fund. NC State started the Our Three Winners Fund on Feb. 19 with an endowment of $60,000. The fund was started to honor the lives of Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Sa l ha a nd Raza n AbuSalha, who were shot and killed on Feb. 10 in their home one mile away from the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. Barakat and his wife Yusor both graduated from NC State. Barakat finished his studies at NC State in 2013 and was a second-year dental student at UNC-CH. Yusor had just graduated from NC State in December and was planning to begin her studies in August. Razan was a first-year student studying environmental architecture Three students will receive an Our Three Winners scholarship
Campus Enterprises opened a smoothie shop called Smoothie U in the Atrium Food Court on Monday, one of the three new dining locations coming to campus this year. Occupying the space of the former Wolf Xpress, students began lining up to try the shop’s smoothies and pastries when the shop opened at 10:30 Monday morning with a line continuing throughout the day. “We had about 20-25 students lined up when we opened this morning, so that was exciting,” said Jennifer Gilmore, director of marketing and communication at Campus Enterprises. Gilmore said she and her team designed the brand of Smoothie U, although the shop is not the first time NC State has had a smoothie joint on campus. Freshens smoothie shop used to be in Talley Student Union before the building closed for renovations in 2013. “We used to have a smoothie place in Talley that we had to take out when we did the renovations over there,” Gilmore said. “That smoothie shop had been at the Atrium before we did renovations there.” Freshens was close in the minds of some students at Monday’s Smoothie U unveiling. “I got the raspberry truffle, it tastes more fruity than it is, and it’s delicious, but it is not exactly what I was expecting,” said Will Garrison, a junior double majoring in chemical engineering and international studies. “I just wanted to say that I don’t think this was as good as Freshens. They need to bring back the peanut butter protein because it’s the best.” Gilmore said that student interest in smoothies was why a smoothie shop was brought back to campus.
The Our Three Winners Fund has reached its $170,000 goal since its creation in February and will start helping NC State students with financial assistance as early as next semester. Beta A lpha Psi, NC State Bookstores and the Office of International Affairs worked together on different fundraisers for the Our Three Winners fund. The Beta Alpha Psi chapter in the Poole College of Management hosted a pie-a-professor toss on the Brickyard Wednesday. The pie toss alone raised about $1,000, according to Gina Miani, president of Beta Alpha Psi and a senior studying accounting. “We didn’t expect it to be that successful, but obviously students rallied around a great cause,” Miani said. The Office of International Affairs and NC State Bookstores created a line of “Wolf pack
World” products that celebrate diversity through T-shirts and coffee mugs that feature the phrases “Think and Do” and “Wolfpack” in different languages. The proceeds from the products will go toward the scholarship. The TShirts and mugs are being sold for $10 each. A team from University Communications and Campus Enterprises designed the mugs and Fernanda Duarte, a doctoral student studying communication rhetoric and digital media, designed the
“Thanks to this scholarship, students who had the same goals as them will be able to continue on.” Michael Williams, a freshman studying engineering
T-shirts. “NC State has more than 5,500 international students and scholars from over 120 different countries,” Duarte said. “My intention was to call attention to the plu-