This is Spoon on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2007. The band’s drummer is alumnus Jim Eno ’89, who has a degree in electrical engineering and used to design microchips before he became a full-time musician a few years ago.
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.
Thanks to NC State News Services for pointing us to these.
NC State is sponsoring Military Appreciation Day at Saturday’s football game against Murray State at Carter-Finley Stadium. GoPack has information about the day’s events and about the Back Home Box Foundation, which provides care packages for soldiers stationed overseas. We’re sponsoring an Army ROTC Alumni Tailgate.
We thought it would be a good time to highlight a couple of military-related stories that have come across our desks recently. The first, from GoPack, tells of two cousins, First Lt. Christopher Young ’05 and Capt. Drew Wimsatt ’03, who both played football for the Wolfpack. Young, a Marine, was awarded the Bronze Star recently. Wimsatt, who flies Cobra attack helicopters, provided the flag that the Pack carried into Carter-Finley for the season’s first game.
Wimsatt believes his job is a lot like football. It’s all about preparation and training.
“You have to rely on the tactics we’re trained to use,” he said. “It’s a lot like football. You practice, you go through your two-a-days, you do all the preparation to get to that point. Then, when you are in a game, there is nothing to it. You do what you have been practicing to do.”
The other, from last week’s faculty/staff newsletter highlights the work of John Muth, an electrical and computer engineering professor and Navy reservist who was awarded a Bronze Star this spring and is back on campus.
For 12 months, the electrical and computer engineering professor negotiated Iraq’s violence and sticky politics as he led a team of 30 civilians, military personnel and translators providing advice and support to the nation’s Ministry of the Interior. The ministry will eventually take charge of all internal security in Iraq, allowing the Iraqi army to focus on external threats.
Aleatz Parker of Warsaw, left, and Louvenia Clark of Louisburg, right. They were among a group of women awarded fellowships by Pratt and Whitney Aircraft to receive engineering training at NC State in 1942. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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An engineering student measures a model car in the 1950s. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections)
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NC State News Services has a profile of Interim Chancellor Jim Woodward on the university’s home page. In it, he talks about the university’s importance to North Carolina:
“We, as an institution, are ideally positioned to educate the students that need to work this new industry and to do the research that undergirds it in a way that no other institution is.
“There is no other institution in the state that has the responsibility that NC State does,” Woodward said. “In my view, at this point in time, NC State is the most important university in the state of North Carolina.”
There will be a welcoming event for him on Tuesday, June 16, at 12:30 p.m. in the North Plaza behind Talley Student Center.
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