Shack-a-thon kicked off on the Brickyard yesterday. Technician has the story, and News 14 has a short video about the fundraiser, which benefits Habitat for Humanity. The Caldwell Fellows Programs, a scholarship and leadership initiative the Alumni Association sponsors, has a shack there, and Caldwell Fellow Jeffrey Huber, a junior majoring in industrial engineering and economics, checked in after the first night:
The Brickyard. This vast expanse normally reserved for passing library patrons cramming for tomorrow’s test is a veritable village. Those of us not pre-occupied with people-watching try to squeeze in some homework. Laptop screens light the faces of most thanks to wireless, but a few just shoot the breeze. I put on some good music, lean back in a white plastic chair and try to do a little of everything while enjoying the cool night air.
Shack-a-thon is always a fun part of the year. It is one of the foremost traditions of NC State. To me it is more than anything else, a time of community, seeing old friends and making new ones. Last year a very competitive game of four-square popped up. Not-so-competitive corn-hole seems like the favorite this year. (more…)
If you watch Grey’s Anatomy or Ghost Whisperer, chances are you’ve heard the music of Kyler England ’98. Since her days as a Caldwell Fellow, England has flourished in the alternative rock music scene in Los Angeles and was named one of Music Connection’s Hot 100 Unsigned Artist of 2007. Her songs from her latest album, Simple Machine—her fifth studio release—have popped up on numerous TV shows and earned her a spot as a finalist for Indie Acoustic Project’s 2008 Best Female Songwriter. She’s also a member of The Rescues, a band that the California-based Easy Reader independent newspaper described as the “first Indie supergroup.”
Listen to the group’s concert for NPR’s Mountain Stage music program,which describes The Rescues’ music as similar to Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles. Also read NC State magazine’s Q&A with Kyler England in our fall issue after the jump.
Update: Kyler England will perform on NC State’s campus — in Thompson Hall’s Titmus Theatre — on Friday, Oct. 2, beginning at 8 p.m. Order tickets through Arts NC State’s Center Stage.
NC State releases additional documents related to the Mary Easley hiring. . . . Wired magazine has feature article on an NC State researcher’s dinosaur discoveries. . . . NCSU Libraries launches online reference resource, NC Architects & Builders. . . . Alumnus, pioneer landscape architect who designed the Brickyard starts blogging. . . . The Caldwell Program’s month-long trip to China draws to a close. . . . NC State magazine cover project digs into the ’80s.
The Caldwell Fellows’ month-long service-learning trip to China is almost over. Janice Odom ’94 PHD, director of the program, has been chronicling their journey on her blog, A Caldwell China Summer, since it began in May. The group of 16 Caldwell Fellows and six China Fellows has snacked on eel and cicada, dined with NC State alumni in Shanghai and learned Tai Chi from a master in Hangzhou, all while partaking in service experiences throughout the country. Now on the last leg of their trip, the Caldwell Fellows reached Beijing on Monday. Follow Odom and the students as their time in China draws to a close.
Kristin Cunningham, a Caldwell Fellow and sophomore in environmental design, with a resident at Home Sweet Home, a Shanghai-based charity that cares for 35 disabled and homeless people. Caldwell Fellows are renovating a house that belongs to Home Sweet Home while in Shanghai.
Janice Odom ’94 PhD, director of the Caldwell Program, has added photos to her blog, A Caldwell China Summer, which takes you along a month-long experiential learning service trip to China with her, 16 Caldwell Fellows and six China Fellows. Be sure to also check out one of her latest entries in which she writes about the adventurous culinary treats she has come across so far in China but hasn’t quite tried yet. (Chicken!)
Sixteen Caldwell Fellows and another six NC State students left Raleigh on Sunday for a month-long experiential learning service trip to China. Joining them is Janice Odom ’94 PhD, right, director of the Caldwell Program. Follow her and the students as she blogs from afar.
Perhaps it is a Chinese parenting technique for raising well-behaved children that the beds are so very firm here; no child would ever think of bouncing on one. One simply cannot work up a bounce on these mattresses.
The Caldwell Program is the university’s original merit scholarship program and is supported by Alumni Association membership dues.
You might have missed the popular 2009 Art to Wear fashion show when it was held April 23 in Reynolds Coliseum, but it’s not too late to see the students’ designs. The video above includes highlights from the night and interviews with designers and Caldwell Fellows Vansana Nolintha and Shelley Smith. Some of the student-designed entries will also be on display in the storefront windows of boutiques at Raleigh’s Cameron Village through Sunday, May 17. Art to Wear is a collaborative effort between students in the colleges of Design and Textiles.
If you can’t make it to Cameron Village and want to see more: Visit the Technician’s multimedia presentation to get a feel for why The N&O’s fashion writer said the eighth annual show “hit a new level of dazzle power.” And read a recap here and here, watch another video and check out this gallery and this one.
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