It’s an interesting and fun event that will leave you looking at these films in a new way. Movies will be shown, and you can learn how to preserve your own films. As the folks at A/V Geeks say, home movies take “us back to a time when Main Street was bustling and the beehive hair-do was all the rage, with images of people we may know or resemble. Home movies are the essential record of our past, and they are among the most authoritative documents of times gone by.”
Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks talked today about the event and home movies on WUNC’s The State of Things. You can hear it here.
Next week I’m interviewing Dr. John Townsend ’74, a relationship expert and leadership coach who co-founded Cloud-Townsend Resources, for a feature story that will run in NC State’s winter issue. Dr. Townsend has written or co-written 21 books on topics such as dating, parenting, emotional struggles and marriage. A sampling of his book credits: Boundaries, Leadership Beyond Reason, and Loving People: How to love and be loved. He also co-hosts the nationally syndicated daily radio show, New Life Live.
Dr.Townsend has agreed to take questions you may have about a relationship or situation in which you need some guidance. Visit cloudtownsend.com and see the type of questions he’s answered in the past. (i.e., “How do I tell a toxic person I don’t want a relationship with her/him anymore?” “I was sexually molested as a child. Can you help me mature?” “How do I lovingly tell my new mother-in-law that I need time alone with my new husband?”) If you have a question you would like to ask Dr. Townsend, e-mail it to me, Cherry Crayton, associate editor of NC State, at cherry_crayton@ncsu.edu. We’ll run some questions and Dr. Townsend’s responses as a sidebar to the feature story. All questions you submit will be published anonymously and will be kept confidential.
NC State News Services posted a couple of YouTube clips recently that give you an idea of the breadth of work done here. The first, above, is from a forensics discovery and recovery course that’s part of the N.C. Program for Forensic Science, which trains state law enforcement officers and medical examiners. Warning: There is an image of a dead pig in the clip.
The second looks at the work of forestry doctoral student Chris Hopkins ’05 MR, who’s part of a group here looking at ways to turn woodchips into a substitute for coal. Pretty cool stuff!
NC State students and faculty have made the news recently with their work. First, a Discovery Channel clip on a lunar rover developed by NC State engineering students, who modeled their design after a tumbleweed (unfortunately there’s no embed code for the clip). It’s a neat segment, and you get to see their prototype in action.
Next, a Salon.com story on a recent study by political science professor Steve Greene that found that “parenthood makes moms more liberal and dads more conservative.” men become more conservative when they become fathers but women become more liberal when they become mothers.
“Basically, women with children in the home were more liberal on social welfare attitudes, and attitudes about the Iraq War, than women without children at home,” Greene says, “which is a very different understanding of the politics of mothers than captured by the ‘Security Mom’ label popular in much media coverage. But men with kids are more conservative on social welfare issues than men without kids.” Men with kids did not differ from men without kids in their attitudes towards Iraq.
Congratulations to Neal Hutcheson ’92. His documentary about moonshiner “Popcorn” Sutton has earned him an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Television Programming Excellence. The Last One, which first aired last year on South Carolina public television, follows Sutton as he makes “one last batch” of moonshine in the Appalachian Mountains.
A video producer at NC State and co-founder of Sucker Punch Pictures, Hutcheson has produced five documentaries for public television in collaboration with NC State’s renowned linguist Walt Wolfram, as well as various short films and documentaries. The Last One won in the category of “cultural documentary” at the Southeast Regional Emmy Awards on Saturday in Atlanta.
Watch the trailer at Sucker Punch Pictures and check out another clip after the jump. (more…)
Time magazine recently highlighted research led by psychology professor Tom Hess that examined the threats stereotypes can have on the stereotyped. The study, published in the journal Experimental Aging Research, showed that senior citizens who think older people should perform poorly on tests of memory actually score much worse than seniors who reject negative stereotypes about aging and memory loss. Time’s John Cloud writes:
The study isn’t the first to show that the aged perform worse under the stress of a stereotype, but it is one of the clearest explanations yet published on how easily stereotype threat compels people to work against themselves.
The study, Cloud writes, is a reminder of the “power of belief” and how stereotypes can have an impact on real-life performance. The take-home message, Hess says, “is that social factors may have a negative effect on older adults’ memory performance.”
I was almost overwhelmed with emotions as I saw my son in this young man. . . . I agonized for a couple of days, feeling depressed and talking with family, friends, and my own therapist. What was my role here? Was I a university professor, mindful of students’ right to privacy and the need to keep my mouth shut? Did it even apply here? Or was I a bereaved parent who wanted to ignore the bureaucracy and try to squeeze some good from his child’s death?
Chris Hondros ’93, an award-winning photographer for Getty Images News Services, talked about his 13 trips to Iraq since 2003 this week on WUNC’s The State of Things. He’s also covered wars in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Kosova, and his photos have appeared in The Economist, The New York Times and Newsweek. View his incredible photos on his Web site.
He was named American Photo magazine’s 2007 “Hero of Photography” and was a finalist for a 2008 National Magazine Award. Read a 2006 story in Smithsonian Magazine that takes you behind the scenes of his coverage of the civil war in Liberia, which made him a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography. Get a preview after the jump.
Doc Hendley ’04 has been named a CNN Hero for tapping into his bartending experience “to save thousands of lives on the other side of the world.” He’s founder and executive director of Wine to Water, an international faith-based organization in Boone that installs running water and sanitation systems in the neediest parts of the world.
The 30-year-old first learned about the world’s water crisis when he took a break from college, and his job as a bar-keep, to travel the world; he hoped it would ground his education and provide some direction. It did.
Wake Forest-based writer Therese Fowler ’00, ’05 MFA is making the rounds to talk about her second novel, Reunion, published by Ballantine Books in March. With Blogcritics.org, she recently answered questions about her favorite writers, her background and Reunion:
Can you tell us a little about your latest book?
[It's] at its most basic level the story of a woman from very humble beginnings who, at 19, gave up a child for adoption and kept the entire matter a secret. When she later becomes a celebrated talk-show host, she undertakes a search for the child - but not necessarily so that they can meet; rather, to assuage her need to know what became of him.
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