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19 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Despite rain, Chillin’ and Grillin’ met with large turnout The annual Chillin’ and Grillin’ event featured music, free food, opportunities to mingle and promote University groups.
their own style of music. “We can only give out so many tickets. We’re giving them out in batches—we have been at all of our Wolfpack Welcome Week events. We only have so many we’re giving out at each and we’ve given out all that we Laura Wilkinson can for Chillin’ and Grillin’,” Winters Features Editor said. “What we have left is going to Despite the rain clouds and stormy be given out at Friday Fest and at the weather, the Inter-Residence Council door. We’re only going to give away and the Interfraternity Council’s event about 100 at the door.” Kris Gower, junior in business adChillin’ and Grillin’ went forward as ministration and international studplanned Wednesday evening. Kyle Winters, senior in business ies, said the IRC was very excited to management and a representative for host both the Chillin’ and Grillin’ the IRC, said the yearly event at Tucker event and the Silent Disco. “It’s kind of the first time we have Beach is a great way to get out after the really pooled our first day of class and energ y and done meet people, chill that. We also viewed and grill. them as really good “We’ve got three cross-promotions enormous lines of for one anot her. burgers, hot dogs Sometimes we have and wings, drinks— a hard time getting a standard cookout lot of people out for fare. Wing Zone is Chillin’ and Grillin’, having a couple of Kris Gower, junior in business but when you pair it wing-eating compeadministration with Silent Disco as titions. They’re 10 of one of the only ways the nuclear wings. to get tickets for it, it It’s as fast as you can eat them. I’ve done it, and you’ll tear really helped publicity,” Gower said. “People are way more excited about up,” Winters said. Other than free food, students par- coming to an event that’s put on by ticipated in volleyball, Frisbee, throw- the same organization that’s doing something like that.” ing footballs and cornhole. Gower said Chillin’ and Grillin’ has Organizers gave out tickets for Saturday’s Silent Disco, also hosted by the been a long-standing cooperation beIRC, early in the event. Silent Disco is tween the IRC and the IFC. “[IFC has] more grills than anyone a new Wolfpack Welcome Week event where each participant get to dance to else on campus. They always bring
“It’s kind of an unlikely partnership, but it works very well.”
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Rob Jones, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon and a graduate student in civil engineering, replenishes the patties sizzling on the grill at Chillin’ and Grillin’ on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. “It’s a fun event. I’ve done it for the past three years, and I think it’s a great way to start off the semester” Jones said. Chillin’ and Grillin’ was sponsored by the Inter Residence Council and Interfraternity Council and included free food and music.
their grills out for the event and the guys are always so helpful. It’s kind of an unlikely partnership, but it works very well,” Gower said. Garrett Pengelly, a junior in chemical engineering and member of the
Greek community, promoted his fraternity while grilling burgers. “This is a way for the Greeks to get their names out there, because a lot of people feel that Greeks have a fairly bad reputation. They come to college
with the ‘Animal House’ stereotype image of Greeks. It’s a way for us to show the general student body what
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Pioneering Pilot Project cut data down to size IBM and N.C. State have formed a partnership so that the University won’t be “buried” beneath marketing data.
FAST FACTS FOR ABOUT NCSU IBM PARTNERSHIP
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0 University unveils new AllCampus card A system Freshmen have the new AllCampus ID card that serves a way to enter buildings Joanna Banegas Senior Staff Writer
The University has unveiled the upgraded AllCampus ID card to incoming freshman, staff and faculty, which features an advancement of new technology, such as credentialing and door access. Upperclassmen affected by the new technology, such as students who need access to buildings or labs, will receive a new card. Jennifer Gilmore, university dining marketing manager, said the new card will not affect the average student.
“It’s more important to us to card the people who are going to be with us for the longest period of time, then to re-card everyone else who is directly affected,” Gilmore said. “Over the next four years there is really good chance that our new students will use the card but they never had a card before so we start with them.” Gilmore said there are new types of technology coming out all the time. “The university felt like there were some new things that needed to be happening,” Gilmore said. “What is built in this card is the type of technology that will accommodate future technology.” Gilmore said the card has information, chips and coil in it. “The coils we can use right now because it starts moving us towards
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secure door access,” Gilmore said. “But just having memory build up in this card opens up many more opportunity for us to take advantage of technology beyond.” Gilmore said the bottom of the old card has no technology tied to that expiration date. “Whereas now when my card expires I will be required to come get a new one because all of the sudden my door access will be gone,” Gilmore said. The following residential halls Berry, Becton, Bagwell and Wolf Village all have card access instead of key fobs. “When someone loses their key to their room or suite, all the doors
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NCSU teamed with IBM to pare investor lists more quickly. New trial technology from IBM may help find investors quickly for university inventions. This is a pilot project that slashes search times for research required to spot potential investors for University-developed technologies. Billy Houghteling, director of the Office of Technology Transfer, worked with faculty and MBA students in the College of Management on the project, during which IBM helped OTT narrow lists of investors quickly. “The project [was] designed to encourage economic growth and get new inventions from N.C. State researchers into the marketplace quickly,” according to an August 11 PRNewswire press release.
BLOOD COMPATIBILITY CHART A new picture ID is being made for Marian Craddick, a sophomore and political science major on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. Marian’s wallet had been stolen, leaving him $40 short and without a student ID. “It keeps people that shouldn’t be in there out,” he explains, referring to the ID card’s ability to allow access to buildings such as Wolf Village apartments.
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Worked with College of Management Reduced time to find potential investors Reduced time to analyze Salmonella strains Found prospective investors for smart inhalers
SOURCE: BILLY HOUGHTELING, DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
The University took advantage of IBM’s “Big Data” technology to locate and analyze large chunks of Web data for content. Then, the University was able to conduct a more focused search for business entities that might be interested in the technologies trying to be funded Dozens of corporations and universities use IBM’s Big Data tools, but this was the first time that a university used the tools to improve potential investor data, said Chris Spencer,
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