Next Stop, Milan! Industrial Design Grad Student to exhibit at Milan Design Week.

Article by David Hunt

t’s a networking opportunity to die for. Or, in the case of NC State graduate student Michael Rall, to design for. It’s the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, also known as IMilan Design Week, and it’s the most important international design event of the year. The 24-year-old Rall, who’s never been off the East Coast, is packing his bags for an all- expenses-paid trip to the design fair April 22-27 courtesy of LG Surfaces. “I can’t wait,” he says. “It’s going to be great.” Actually, it’s going to be a lot more than that. Rall, who graduates in December with a master’s degree in industrial design, gets to rub elbows in Milan with just about anybody who’s anybody in the world of product design – or at least the top couple of hundred thousand designers, manufacturers, buyers, distributors and salespeople in the industry. While he’s at it, he’ll have the opportunity to exhibit a design prototype of his own at Zona Tortona’s “That’s Design!” show, which draws more than 80,000 designers and exhibitors from around the globe every year. And he’ll round out the week by appearing at a press conference to present his design concepts to journalists from media outlets like Metropolitan magazine. Talk about real-world experience. Rall earned the trip by blowing away the competition in the LG Surfaces Beyond Student Design Challenge last month. The contest, which was open to students at five of the nation’s top design schools, required participants to come up with new product ideas using the company’s acrylic surface material. Today, LG Surfaces is a major producer of kitchen countertops. But to stay economically healthy, the manufacturer is looking for new ways to expand its product line. The contest guidelines were strict. Not only did the design concepts have to be interesting, they had to be easy and affordable to manufacture. And, with a nod to the

Bulletin | April 9, 2009 2 Rall’s design incorporates a hidden bracket to give the illusion that the nightstand is balanced on a single leg. The prototype will be created using orange acrylic surface material. recession, they had to be products that After uploading people would want to buy. As an added his drawings and wrinkle, the company gave the contest a schematics to the theme: balance. contest Web site, Rall Rall was well prepared for the challenge; spent a few minutes he’s studied the design applications of a reviewing some of the wide range of materials, including wood, other entries that had metals and plastic. When he read the been uploaded. guidelines for the contest, he got excited. “There were 12 “Acrylic is easily thermoformable,” he entries just from NC says with enthusiasm. “You can heat it up State,” he says. “Some and it will bend however you want. And of them were so good, you can attach two pieces together and I really didn’t think I they look seamless.” had a chance.” Rall pulled out a design for a shelf that But in March, Rall he’d been working on for a metals class: and four other finalists a flat piece of wood with an aluminum were flown to Atlanta Michael Rall working on some new designs in Brooks Hall. strip across the top that could be attached to present their designs to a wall with a hidden metal bracket. to a panel of judges. By attaching the hidden bracket to a The next day, the company held a press be among the 12,000 products vying for bedroom nightstand, he decided, he could conference to present the three winning recognition as the hottest new design achieve the illusion that the nightstand design concepts and the students who had trends in the world. was balanced precariously and impossibly created them, including Rall. The trip to Milan is not only great on a single small leg. He designed the “I think I won because of ease of exposure for a promising young designer, nightstand to give it a smoothly flowing fabrication,” he says. “And I think I gave it’s also an opportunity for Rall to learn S-shaped curve, taking advantage of a good presentation and answered the about the industry and think about his the flexibility that acrylic has during the judges’ questions clearly. I showed a clear future. fabrication process. understanding of the project and how it “I want to design furniture or house When he showed his drawings to would fit into a home.” wares,” he says, “or kitchen stuff or small friends, they reacted just the way he LG Surfaces and its fabrication vendor, appliances. Actually, I haven’t narrowed it hoped: “They said, ‘Whoa, how is that Sterling Surfaces, will manufacture down to one thing. I want to do all sorts of standing up? It only has that one leg to the prototypes of each of the winning designs things. I want to touch everything.” side.’” and have them on display in Milan. They’ll He’s off to a great start.

3 Bulletin | April 9, 2009 Kim Paylor, Wolfline transit manager, Lake Raleigh Clean-up Bulletin Board [email protected]. As part of NC State’s sustainability efforts, Campus Recreation’s professional Holtzman Lecture Focuses on Obama staff takes the lead in helping to clean up The Oprah-fication of Obama Paul Light, Professor of Public Service at Lake Raleigh and the surrounding area. Katie Lofton of Yale University will NYU and author of 18 books, including the Come watch, support the action, help with present a talk titled, “The Oprah-fication award-winning “Thickening Government” “dry-land” clean-up efforts, and support of Obama” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9, and “The Tides of Reform,” will look NC State and the Earth Team partners on in Daniels 218. Hosted by the Department at the transition to and performance campus. The clean-up takes place from of Philosophy and Religion under the of the Obama administration at 7 p.m. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, at auspices of the Religious Studies Monday, April 13, in 216 Poe Hall. The Lake Raleigh on Centennial Campus. Colloquium Series. Holtzman lecture series, begun in 2005, honors Professor Abraham Holtzman E-File Your Taxes This Year Faculty/Staff Wolfline Service and his nearly 50 years of service to the E-filing is a quick, convenient and secure Wolfline will operate limited service on Department of Political Science and NC way to file your income taxes and receive Friday April 10. Rt. 6 Carter Finley will State University. This is the third Holtzman your refunds weeks ahead of paper filers. operate every 30 minutes, Rt. 7 Wolflink Lecture. You may qualify for free or low-cost e-filing shuttle will operate every 20 minutes, Rt. if you earn less than $40,000. 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To access north campus, the will realize lower federal income tax 21st Century Librarian Program, which Yarbrough Drive gate will be open for withholding as a result, but there are seeks to support the development of the entire day on Friday. Access will be some pitfalls to be aware of. For more the nation’s information workforce. The maintained to the Boney Drive Parking Lot information, please refer to the article, “The Seminar will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, (fomerly Riddick Lot) and the Poe Loading Economic Stimulus Package: What’s in April 15, in the auditorium in the West Dock and accessible parking spaces. it for you?” at http://www.fis.ncsu.edu/hr/ Wing of the D. H. Hill Library. Cherry will Due to the Stinson Drive closure on news/. deliver a talk titled “Who’s on the Desk? Friday, April 10 (from Boney Drive to Staffing the Library of the Future Today.” Current Drive), the Rt. 7 Wolflink shuttle Body Image Events will be detoured via Founders Drive/ Come hear Stacy Nadeau, Dove model Community Partners Fair Watauga/Pullen Road and continue on and motivational speaker, present a talk Faculty, students, and any others are its regular route. This detour impacts titled, “Embracing Real Beauty” at 7 p.m. welcome to come meet others who are bus frequency; service will be every 30 Tuesday, April 14, in Poe Hall, Room involved in community-engaged teaching minutes. 216. Then, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on and learning at 3 p.m. Thursday, April Wednesday, April 15, Health Promotion 16, in the 1911 Building lounge. Learn Wolfline Holiday Sevice will host an event called, “Celebrate Your about engagement opportunities; build Wolfline holiday shuttle bus service will Body,” on the Brickyard (rain date April 17). relationships that can lead to teaching and be provided from both the Varsity storage Bring your old jeans and drop them off at research; expand and deepen existing lot and the Centennial Campus storage the P.A.C.K. Peers’ booth for the peers to partnerships. Community organizations at lots to campus residence halls on Sunday, donate to a charity. This event is free and the fair will include the Susan G. Komen April 12, beginning at the Varsity storage open to the public. For more information, Foundation, Interfaith Food Shuttle, lot at 5 p.m. with continuous service visit: http://www.ncsu.edu/health_ Women’s Center, and Boys and Girls Club. until 9 p.m. (approximately every half- promotion/celebrateyourbody/index.html, Hosted by CHASS’s Institute for Nonprofits hour). Visit http://www.ncsu.edu/Wolfline or contact Marianne Turnbull at 513-3293 and NC State’s Center for Excellence in for service areas. To view real-time bus or by e-mail at marianne_turnbull@ncsu. Curricular Engagement. locations, visit the Transit Visualization edu. System (TVS): http://ncsu.transloc-inc. Barkalow Lecture com. Questions? Call 515-3424 or contact Ian Stirling, emeritus research scientist

Bulletin | April 9, 2009 4 with the Canadian Wildlife Service and afternoon of April 22 with the Brickyard professor at the University of Alberta, events and on April 24 with setting up, Dance Company Edmonton, will be speaking on the natural running and breaking down the Earth history of polar bears, from 4 p.m. to 5 Day Concert on Lee Field. To help on Spring Concert p.m., Friday, April 17, in 1216 Jordan Hall April 22, contact volunteer coordinator II. Refreshments will be served in 1214 Aubrey Southwell at [email protected] Jordan II from 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. or 515-9421. To help on April 24 contact volunteer coordinator Megan Cain at Basura on the Bricks [email protected]. Have you ever wondered how much recycling ends up in the trash on campus? Art to Wear Fashion Show NCSU Waste Reduction and Recycling The 2009 Art to Wear fashion show is student interns and the Inner Residence set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23, in Council are coordinating “Landfill on the Reynolds Coliseum. Merchandise and Lawn.” Despite the name it will actually tickets will be available at the Egg (behind take place on the bricks between Bragaw Brooks Hall) this Friday, March 27, from and Sullivan from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. and each Friday prior Nationally acclaimed by the Saturday, April 18. The waste audit is to the show at the same times. Reserved American College Dance Festival designed to be a competition between tickets are available for $10; general East, West, and Central Campus to admission is free. Association, the NCSU Dance see who has the lowest percentage of Company performs a distinguished recyclables in their trash. The sort will take Sea Grant Requests Proposals collection of modern dance for the place between Bragaw and Sullivan. There North Carolina Sea Grant is requesting will also be fun games and prizes to show preproposals for coastal and marine topics spring concert. The program will off your recycling knowledge. for its 2010-2012 core research funding feature premiere and repertory cycle. The deadline for online submission work created by the dance Friends of the Library Book Sale is April 27. The 20th annual Friends of the Library “Preproposals must emphasize, and program directors, along with “A book sale will be held on the Brickyard fall under, one of our four strategic Day in the Life of the Brain” by April 22-25. The schedule is 9 a.m. to 6 focus areas,” notes Executive Director p.m. on April 22, 23 and 24; and 9 a.m. Michael Voiland, “and must indicate direct guest artist Shane O’Hara, to noon on Saturday, April 25. A preview relevance to resolving important coastal professor of dance at James sale will be held on Tuesday, April 21, for resource questions or issues.” Madison University. The concert volunteers and members of the Friends Sea Grant’s focus areas are: of the Library. Hardbacks are $4 and soft will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, covers are $2 on April 21 and 22. Prices • Hazard-Resilience in Coastal April 23, in Stewart Theatre. For drop to $2 for hardbacks and $1 for soft Communities covers the rest of the time. There will also • Healthy Coastal Ecosystems tickets, call 515-1100. be an “All-you-can-put-in-a-bag sale” for • Safe and Sustainable Seafood Supply $5 on Friday and Saturday, April 24 and • Sustainable Coastal Development 25. Contact Jim Ruth with Friends of the Details on the focus areas, as well Library for more info at 513-7033 or visit as specific instructions and materials http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/booksales. for online submission, are included in application materials available at http:// Farmer’s Market Starts on Earth Day www.ncseagrant.org/home/research/ The grand opening of the NC State grantsfellowships. Bulletin Farmer’s Market will be April 22, Earth The Bulletin is published weekly, except Day. The market will open in conjunction Arboretum Hosts Gala during the summer and holidays, by North with the annual Earth Day events on the The JC Raulston Arboretum will hold Carolina State University News Services. Brickyard. Organizers expect a variety of its annual Gala in the Garden on Sunday, To subscribe to the online version, visit North Carolina-grown products to be on May 3, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The theme www.ncsu.edu/bulletin. hand, including an assortment of produce, of this year’s event is “An Enchanted seafood and even handmade soaps. Garden Party.” In addition to a silent Please submit news and announcements Brickyard festivities will run from 10 auction, guests will enjoy live music by one week in advance of publication. a.m. to 3 p.m. and also feature the annual the Southern String Band and gourmet News Services Friends of the Library Book Sale, an hors d’oeuvres, including a special dessert Campus Box 7504 energy fair and the Forestry Club’s Plant reception. Raleigh, NC 27695 Sale. Earth Week will culminate with a Gala tickets are $60. Proceeds from free concert for students on Lee Field on the event will benefit the JC Raulston Phone (919) 515-5863 April 24 headlined by the Annuals. More Arboretum, a working research and E-mail [email protected] information can be found at http://www. teaching garden of NC State Web www.ncsu.edu/bulletin ncsu.edu/earthday. University. To purchase tickets, contact Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/c2ewk9 The organizers of Earth Week events Anne Porter at 919-513-3826 or anne_ need volunteers to help the morning and [email protected]. For more information Editor: David Hunt

5 Bulletin | April 9, 2009 about the JC Raulston Arboretum visit Textiles This year, 38 fellows nominated by http://www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum. • Marissa Langford, College of Textiles their university’s senior leadership were • Dr. Edward Breitschwerdt, College of selected in a national competition. Wolf Pack N Go Sale Veterinary Medicine “We are very pleased to recognize The large exodus of resident students • Dr. Maria T. Correa, College of Veterinary these two faculty members. They each can yield a massive amount of unwanted Medicine have exhibited tremendous leadership materials. The purge of materials is why • Dr. Jonathan Kramer, Division of Student potential in their careers thus far. Mitzi’s University Housing and NCSU Waste Affairs career has focused on the development Reduction and Recycling are collaborating In addition to receiving the Outstanding of collaborative research and education for another “Wolf Pack n Go Sale” on May Extension Service Award, the following in the area of services and innovation 15 at the E.S. King Village Community faculty members will be inducted into the management, and Fay’s focus has been Center. The sale starts at 8 a.m and goes Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged on diversity in the IT field. We trust that until 6 p.m. This is the fourth annual event in Extension: their year as ACE Fellows will enable them where donated items left by students are • Dr. David Tarpy, College of Agriculture to further define their career path and picked up, stored, and sold to the public. and Life Sciences strengthen their leadership skills so that All money collected from the sale will go • Dr. Diane D. Chapman, College of they can continue to make an impact,” said toward environmental education. Education Provost Larry Nielsen. Volunteers are needed for Tuesday (9 • Dr. Hugh A. Devine, College of Natural As ACE Fellows, Montoya and Payton a.m. to 2 p.m.), Wednesday (8 a.m. to 7 Resources will focus on an issue of concern to NC p.m.), and Thursday (8 a.m to 11 a.m.) • Dr. M. Todd See, College of Agriculture State while spending the next academic shifts. All state employees are invited to and Life Sciences year working with a college or university use their Community Service Leave to • Neal Hutcheson, College of Humanities president and other senior officers at volunteer. Beginning May 12, staff and and Social Sciences another institution. faculty can also donate items in resalable • Dr. Audrey J. Jaeger, College of condition at the donaton site, located in the Education Fulbright Teaching Assistants Approved lobby of the E.S. King Village office. • Dr. R. Michael Young, College of NC State has been approved by the Engineering Institute of International Education to • Dr. Roby B. Sawyers, College of host three Fulbright Foreign Language Faculty and Staff Notes Management Teaching Assistants (FLTAs) in 2009- The following three recipients will also 2010; one from India to teach Urdu, one Li Presentation Gets Wide Audience be recognized for being nominated for the from Bangladesh to teach Bengali, and The National Academy of Sciences Alumni Outstanding Extension Service one from Afghanistan to teach Persian. features a presentation by Dr. Bailian Li, Award. The Alumni awardees will be The application was made by the North vice provost for international affairs, on honored at the Honors Convocation and Carolina Center for South Asia Studies, its Web portal. The presentation is titled, will receive a monetary award of $3,000 at a Title VI National Resource Center “Principles and Practices of International the Convocation. comprising NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill Agreements – NC State.” They are: and Duke University, funded by the U.S. • Dr. David Tarpy, College of Agriculture Department of Education since 1999 for Outstanding Extension Service Awards and Life Sciences the development of South Asia studies and Twenty-one faculty and professional staff • Dr. Diane D. Chapman, College of the teaching of South Asian languages. members who have been named recipients Education The Center’s Critical Languages Program, of the Outstanding Extension Service • Dr. Hugh A. Devine, College of Natural provides courses in less-commonly-taught Awards will be honored at a banquet on Resources languages such as Persian, Bengali, Tamil, April 20 at the McKimmon Center for and Nepali for all three campuses. Extension and Continuing Education. The COM Faculty Named ACE Fellows theme of the banquet is “Celebrating an The American Council on Education Haenn Receives Fulbright Engaged University.” (ACE) announced that Dr. Mitzi Montoya Nora Haenn in the Department of Award recipients are: and Dr. Fay Cobb Payton, both on the Sociology and Anthropology received • Norman Fred Miller, College of faculty in College of Management, have a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake Agriculture and Life Sciences/CES been named ACE Fellows for academic research in Mexico. In collaboration with • Mark Hucks, College of Agriculture and year 2009-10. Montoya is the Zelnak Mexican colleagues at the El Colegio de Life Sciences/CES Professor of Marketing Innovation la Frontera Sur, she will be examining • Dr. Georgia Bizios, College of Design and assistant dean for research at the the effects of international migration • Charles R. Parrish, College of college. Payton is associate professor on sending communities located in the Engineering of information technology. Both are in country’s rural and tropical south, a region • Dr. Lynda Aiman-Smith, College of the college’s Department of Business that only joined the international migration Management Management. phenomenon in recent times. Because • Dr. Dennis W. Hazel, College of Natural The ACE Fellows Program, established most migrants are men who leave behind Resources in 1965, is designed to strengthen wives and children, she will consider • Dr. David Eggleston, College of Physical institutions and leadership in American how women take on the management of and Mathematical Sciences higher education by identifying and household affairs in the absence of their • Dr. Wandra P. Hill, College of Physical preparing promising senior faculty and husbands. Her research with farm families and Mathematical Sciences administrators for responsible positions will document how they spend remittances • Thomas Michael Ferguso, College of in college and university administration. and whether these expenditures entail

Bulletin | April 9, 2009 6 investments in new kinds of land use that Management, and Physical Education change tropical ecologies. She will also Pharmacy Benefit Changes has united to create the NCSU Challenge consider how local governments plan for In order to keep the pharmacy benefit Course at Schneck Forest. Thanks to a the social and economic changes that affordable for members and provide generous donation from alumnus Jim Wall, accompany migration. access to high quality, effective medication owner of Cornerstone Designs Inc., and options, several changes to the pharmacy the hard work and dedication of Dr. Aram Alumni Magazine Wins Award benefit will be implemented beginning May Attarian the dream is finally a reality. “NC State,” the magazine published 1. “This project is long overdue. The by the Alumni Association, has been • Triptans are medications used to treat students, faculty and staff at NC State will recognized in the League of American certain migraine and cluster headache benefit from this amazing project. Thanks Communications Professionals Inspire conditions. Beginning May 1, the copay for to Jim Wall and his team, we’ve been able Awards competition. NC State won a triptans, Amerge, Axert, Frova, Zomig, and to add an element to our program that will gold award in the “Print-Hybrid Audience” Zomig ZMT, will be $50 for up to a 34-day take us to the next level,” says Bill James, category, and, based on the score, supply. assistant director, Outdoor Adventures. was ranked 19th overall out of more • Also beginning May 1, all users of The course is located about 10 minutes than 400 entries in multiple categories. Amerge, Axert, Frova, Treximet, Zomig, from campus in Schenck Forest, a 245- Other winners included American and Zomig ZMT will be subject to a acre forest used by the Department of Express, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and formulary coverage review. Coverage will Forestry and Environmental Resources for Pennsylvania State. only be granted if your provider documents research and teaching. Housing an eight- The judges praised the publication, that you have experienced failure or element high ropes course, this project can saying, “Clearly, a lot of care has gone into intolerance with a preferred migraine offer groups many different team building producing an exceptional communications medication (Sumatriptan, Maxalt, Maxalt and leadership development options. element to reach the target audience. MLT or Relpax). Campus Recreation is offering half-day, Great first impression. The production • Antiemetics are medications used to full-day and multi-day programs focusing values found within ‘NC State’ are truly prevent and treat chemotherapy-induced on experiential education and training among the best reviewed this year.” nausea and vomiting. Beginning May 1, designed to meet the group’s needs. prescriptions for antiemetics (Anzemet, These programs help groups explore Skaggs Wins Communications Award Emend, Kytril (granisetron), Granisol, team dynamics, resulting in more positive The Council for Agricultural Science Zofran (ondansetron), Cesamet, and interaction and increased productivity and Technology (CAST) has honored Dr. Sancuso) will have quantity limits. within the team. R. Wayne Skaggs with the 2009 Charles Visit http://www.shpnc.org/faq-pharm- Campus Recreation will begin offering A. Black Communications Award. Skaggs antiemetic.html for more information. programs this summer, including is William Neal Reynolds Professor and teambuilding initiatives and challenge Distinguished University Professor in the Look Out, It’s a Flash Mob course experiences for student Department of Biological and Agricultural The Joel Lane House Museum in organizations, as well as faculty and staff Engineering in the College of Agriculture Raleigh is a carefully preserved testament groups. and Life Sciences. He received the award to the man who was instrumental in For more information or to schedule a in March from Dr. Henry L. Shands, CAST creating much of the early history of this leadership development session, contact president, in Washington, D.C. now-flourishing region of the country. But Bill James at [email protected] or 513- The Charles A. Black Communications until recently, a key part of that history 8126. Award is presented annually to an was lost to most of us. On March 23, individual who has demonstrated a group of volunteers from the NCSU Lucia to Join Faculty at UFAM outstanding achievement in his or her Libraries descended on the oldest house in Dr. Lucian Lucia, associate professor area of expertise within the agricultural, Raleigh, and, in a decidedly non-traditional of biomaterials science in the Department environmental or food sciences sectors. manner, “flash mobbed” the 232 books of Wood and Paper Science, has been Skaggs is an expert in drainage and that the museum has collected but has invited to join the doctorate of engineering subsurface water management. In 1980 never been able to make widely available faculty at Federal University of the he developed a computerized water in a systematic way to historians and Amazon (UFAM) in Brazil. Lucia has management model, DRAINMOD, which to members of the community who are been collaborating with UFAM and his helps predict how water management interested in the history of the colonial addition to its graduate faculty will further procedures will affect water table depth, period. strengthen NC State’s connection with soil water regime and crop yields. The The newly catalogued books include UFAM. Lucia will continue his regular model has been reengineered to expand works on museum maintenance, antiques, duties at NC State University. its capabilities and is used by consulting colonial Americana, and the history of engineers, researchers and government North Carolina and Raleigh. The collection State Employees Appreciated agencies worldwide. includes a significant number of rare books Gov. Perdue has proclaimed the In 1994 NC State presented Skaggs its and documents, including historical society week of May 3-9 as “State Employee highest faculty recognition, the Alexander newsletters and pamphlets and the original Recognition Week” and May 6 as “State Quarles Holladay Award, and in 1997, he Lane family Bible. Employee Appreciation Day.” She urges received the University of North Carolina’s all citizens, “to take this opportunity to join highest award, the O. Max Gardner Award. Ropes Course Opens This Summer me in expressing to all state employees That same year, he received the Alexander Campus Recreation along with the our appreciation for their commendable von Humboldt award for contributions to Department of Forestry and Environmental service.” U.S. agriculture. Resources, Parks, Recreation and Tourism

7 Bulletin | April 9, 2009 Bulletin Launches Facebook Group

Readers can now post comments and photos, add links and join discussion threads.

he Bulletin is going interactive. If you’re a member of the social Tnetworking site, Facebook, you can join the Bulletin’s new Facebook group, called NC State Bulletin. Membership is free and open to everyone and gives you the option (the joy, really) of posting comments, photos and video; joining discussion threads; and sharing links. We set up the Bulletin group so we could provide a behind-the-scenes look at our employee communication efforts and bring our readers into the process. During the week, we’ll post photos that we’ve taken, talk about the stories we’re working on, NC State News Services has launched a Facebook group for the Bulletin to give employ- and share our plans and ideas for the ees a behind-the-scenes look at its communication efforts. Employees with a Facebook future. account can join the group and add comments, photos, links and video to the site. You can tell us what’s happening on campus that we should be covering, comment on our work (or grade it, if you’re a faculty member) and post your news and Users select which Twitter “feeds” to follow, events directly on the site. and then receive updates whenever those The Facebook group is just one of a feeds are updated. number of social networking opportunities You can follow NC State News Services’ we’re taking advantage of to enhance our Twitter feed at: http://twitter.com/ ability to promote news and events at NC NCStateNews. State, both internally and externally. News Services has also created a NC State’s News Services office has Facebook group, separate from the also created its own Twitter account Bulletin group, at http://tinyurl.com/cqcc38. for Twitter users among our faculty, By the way, if your department or college staff, students, alums and friends of the has a Facebook group, let us know and university who want instant updates on we’ll add a link to our group. And don’t news from and about NC State. Twitter is forget about NC State’s YouTube site, an electronic service that allows its users http://www.youtube.com/ncstate, which to publish and follow “micro-blogs,” called has tons of great videos produced right on “tweets,” that are limited to 140 characters. campus.

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