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Flagship Environmental Class Provides Students with Direction

Introductory environmental science course used a DELTA Critical Path Grant to refresh course content. Voluntary case study leaders serve as examples of the different paths taken to find the career which is the best fit for each person.
Layla Saliba in a red T-shirt standing next to a stack on menstrual products

ABC11 Interviews Recent Alumna About We Bleed Red Initiative

NC State alumna Layla Saliba was recently interviewed by ABC11 News about her work as a student with the We Bleed Red initiative on campus. She also weighed in on food and housing insecurity, and how menstrual equity factors into the equation.

Erin Seekamp Named Goodnight Distinguished Professor of Coastal Resilience and Sustainability

Dr. Erin Seekamp, a professor of parks, recreation and tourism management and an extension tourism specialist in the College of Natural Resources, has been appointed Goodnight Distinguished Professor of Coastal Resilience and Sustainability, and director of the Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative. The appointment is effective August 16.
The Alton Great Streets project, located in the St. Louis region, employed drone technology during the pandemic to build 3-D models and quickly iterate and visualize alternative plans for virtual public workshops (image courtesy of Design Workshop).

A New Way To Measure: Bringing Drone Technology to Landscape Architecture

With the help of NC State’s Institute for Transportation, Research and Education (ITRE), Emily McCoy, associate professor of practice in landscape architecture and environmental planning, has been flying drones across campus for the past five years. But she’s capturing more than the beauty of the landscape. McCoy and the students in her landscape performance class have been using tools such as drones with thermal cameras to evaluate how different landscapes across campus perform from a sustainability standpoint.