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May 15, 2015

DASA Departmental Moves – Updates for Everyone (Even if you are not moving!)

If You Are NOT Moving Next Week Just a quick note to let you know that we appreciate your patience while the entire DASA Tech team is occupied with the moves happening next week. Please continue to send your tech needs and help requests to your departmental Get Help address as usual. Unless your situation… 

May 12, 2015

DASA Departmental Moves – Tech Breakdown Schedule

The final move schedule has been distributed. DASA Tech has put together our related schedule of breaking down your equipment. Because of the volume of moves and the compacted timetable, many of you will have multiple days with no desktop computer. Please plan on alternate computing during this time. Here are some important details regarding… 

May 8, 2015

NC State Sustainability Fund awards $117,000 in campus grants

Ten sustainability projects will become reality on campus thanks to $117,000 in sustainability grants recently awarded by the student-led advisory board of NC State’s Sustainability Fund. Generated by a $1.50 per semester student fee that students voted to create in 2012, grant funding is available to NC State students, faculty and staff who submit proposals for projects that… 

May 5, 2015

2015 Awards for Excellence recipients

On April 30, during DASA’s annual end of year celebration, we recognized the notable accomplishments of some of DASA’s hardest working employees. The NC State University Award for Excellence is the most prestigious honor awarded to non-faculty staff members in recognition of meritorious accomplishments, beyond one’s normal job responsibilities. Fourteen staff members were nominated this year,… 

May 5, 2015

Thought and Done: DASA year-end celebration and awards ceremony

On April 30, 2015, DASA employees celebrated an eventful year, culminating with an awards presentation highlighting our best and brightest. The award categories and recipients are as follows: Wolf Walks Competition Top 5 Teams: Competitive Division 5.  Counseling Center Walks: 56,945 4.  DASA Varsity Walking Team: 64,283 3.  ASPSA: 67,041 2.  Healthy Howlers: 69,920 1.… 

Apr 30, 2015

Please Register: WordPress Training for DASA

Our grand project to implement a new strategic plan for DASA websites has made tremendous progress — slower than we had initially hoped, but now steaming ahead. We launched the main division website on February 27. This new look and feel was the basis for a very similar theme for departmental websites, and we have… 

Apr 22, 2015

WKNC creates music visualizer

A group of WKNC students placed second in NC State Libraries’ inaugural Code+Art Student Visualization Contest. Sponsored by Christie Digital systems, the competition called for students to create large-scale, data-driven “generative artwork” for display on the twenty-foot wide Art Wall and iPearl Immersion Theater at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library on Centennial Campus. The WKNC… 

Apr 21, 2015

NC State Students Present At NCUR

14 NC State students presented their research at the NCUR (National Conference on Undergraduate Research) in April 2015.  The Conference 

Apr 14, 2015

Tri-Village Explores DC

This past weekend, over 50 students from the West Campus Villages traveled to the nation’s capital for the second annual Tri-Village experiential trip. Students from EcoVillage, the Scholars Village and the Women in Science and Engineering Villages filled the Sullivan Hall lobby at 5:30am Saturday morning to join the hundreds of thousands of people in… 

Apr 13, 2015

NC State hosts first Long Night Against Procrastination at D. H. Hill Library

Despite the lightning and thunder pelting the region Thursday evening April 9th, NC State’s first Long Night Against Procrastination (LNAP) drew a small crowd to the ground floor Reading Room at D. H. Hill. Anne Burke, Undergraduate Instruction and Outreach Librarian, and Brandy Grabow, Assistant Director at the University Tutorial Center partnered to bring research and…