{"id":23254,"date":"2021-05-17T01:19:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T01:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/?page_id=23254"},"modified":"2024-10-21T12:07:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:07:54","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News and Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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The Art of Giving: Student Organization Fundraising and Therapy Dogs<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n
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\n February 06, 2026<\/span>\n <\/p>\n \n

College of Design Dean Mark Hoversten to Step Down<\/h3>\n \n\n \n\t \t

College of Design Dean Mark Hoversten will step down effective July 1, 2026, after dedicating a decade of service to NC State.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n

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Design Authorship in the AI Age<\/h3>\n \n\n \n\t \t

Assistant professor in NC State University’s College of Design Byungsoo Kim is conducting a study exploring students\u2019 perceived sense of authorship \u2014 the comfort level in claiming designs as their own \u2014 when they incorporate AI tools into their creative process.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n

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Rooted at NC State: Red Dot Design Award Winner Showcases Research-Design-Industry Partnership<\/h3>\n \n\n \n\t \t

What began as a classroom challenge to improve care for mothers and newborns has grown into an award-winning medical device. After studying how hospital design made it difficult for mothers recovering from cesarean birth to reach their infants, NC State industrial design students collaborated with UNC researchers and design firm Trig to create the Couplet Care Bassinet. Now used in hospitals across the U.S., the bassinet allows new mothers to safely connect with their babies \u2014 a powerful example of design improving everyday lives.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n

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NC State Design Alumna Honored for Role in Award-Winning IBM AI Innovation<\/h3>\n \n\n \n\t \t

Industrial Design alumna Dipali Aphale (\u201917) is part of the IBM team recognized with Best AI Solution \u2013 Data Insights & Knowledge Management at the 2025 Banking Tech Awards USA. The winning project, IBM Synthetic Data Sets, uses artificial intelligence to generate realistic, privacy-protected data for safer innovation across industries.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n

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A Gift in Oak: Crafting Design, from Raleigh to Nagoya<\/h3>\n \n\n \n\t \t

Industrial design student Kai Kuwata honors 40 years of partnership between NC State and Nagoya University with a handcrafted oak bowl that symbolizes creativity, collaboration and design thinking.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n

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Spring 2025 Designlife Magazine<\/h3>\n \n\n \n\t \t

The spring issue of Designlife magazine is here! Explore this issue for stories on the magazine’s new look and feel, the incredible work done by faculty, students and alumni and…<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n

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Designing Dignity: Jabria Oliver\u2019s Fight Against Period Poverty<\/h3>\n \n\n \n\t \t

Period poverty, defined as the lack of access to menstrual hygiene products, safe facilities and adequate education, is a global issue affecting millions of people. For women experiencing homelessness, this often-overlooked challenge exacerbates an already precarious situation, forcing them to make impossible choices between basic needs.\nIn an industry crowded with consumer electronics, automobiles and medical devices, Jabria Oliver, a recent graduate of the Master of Industrial Design program, is working to create a prominent space designing for social impact.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n

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Meet the newest members of the College of Design Leaders Council for 2025<\/h3>\n \n\n \n\t \t

The College of Design is excited to welcome six new members to its Leaders Council. Established in 2010, the Leaders Council of the NC\u00a0State College of Design is a select group of alumni and friends in design-related professions across the country.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n

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Congratulations, Spring 2025 Graduates!<\/h3>\n \n\n \n\t \t

The College of Design is proud to celebrate the graduates of the spring 2025 class.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n

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Imagining a Different Way<\/h3>\n \n\n \n\t \t

Compared to most of his classmates, Xzavier Taylor took an unusual route to earning a degree from NC State\u2019s College of Design. But overcoming challenges has helped him recognize the potential in things \u2014 and people.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n

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Remembering Vincent M. Foote, FIDSA<\/h3>\n \n\n \n\t \t

The College of Design is saddened to share that Vincent M. Foote, FIDSA passed away on April 25, 2025. Foote was a longtime member of the College of Design\u2019s industrial design faculty, influencing countless students over his forty-year teaching career.\u00a0<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n

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Sending Off Our 2025 Graduates<\/h3>\n \n\n \n\t \t

Meet five graduates from NC State’s class of 2025 and learn about the journeys they took to get here.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23254","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23254"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24245,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23254\/revisions\/24245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}