Lectures and Talks

Building on her work as co-principal investigator of Data Stories, an Institute for Emerging Issues-supported project on mapping local North Carolina communities, Deborah Littlejohn, associate professor of graphic design in the College of Design, will present a reader-centric approach to data presentation. The approach Littlejohn will discuss uses principles from user experiences and graphic design…

The Analytical Instrumentation Facility is excited to host its annual Open House and User Appreciation. Join us for coffee and pastries and an introduction of our facility for new users, which will be presented by Aaron Bell, the bio-electron microscopy staff scientist for AIF, and tours of our facility. Although the event is free, please…

Using equipment and software available in the libraries' VR Studio, staff member Colin Keenan will assemble a live demo with input from chat. You can watch a live stream of the demo via Twitch, and if you have a free Twitch account, you can ask questions and make comments in the live chat. We're happy…

Learn how to bring the magic of Black characters to life in your classrooms at the 2021 Young Adult Colloquium: Come YAC With the Pack. This year's theme is Celebrating the Magic of Black Characters. You’ll hear from best-selling Black authors Tracy Deonn and Kwame Mbalia and guest scholar Jewel Davis to gain insight and…

Join the NC State University Libraries for a conversation with Anna Gessner and Cameron Morris from Feed the Pack. Feed the Pack is a food pantry open to all members of the campus community. To learn more about using the pantry, volunteering and donating, visit the Feed the Pack website. You can watch a livestream…

Join staff members from the Special Collections Research Center as they unbox some of their favorite materials from the collection. You can watch via a livestream on Twitch, and if you have a free Twitch account, you can ask questions and make comments in the live chat. We're happy to answer your questions or refer…

It can be difficult to talk about climate change. Through the use of fictional scenarios, games help us explore and reflect on the challenging and sometimes frightening problems we face. In this series, we will livestream gameplay and discuss how climate change games help us understand and grapple with the diverse and interrelated problems resulting…

As the founder and CEO of ForHerCosmetics, Alyssa Space is building a cosmetics empire that not only diversifies the beauty industry but inspires the next generation of chemists and entrepreneurs. What started in the kitchen of her mother's home has blossomed into a 350-square-foot lab in the heart of Detroit also known as MySpaceLaboratories. This…

How do marginalized people carve out and stitch together spaces, knowledge and cultures of their own while navigating political economies of oppression? Specifically, how do digital environments afford and limit transgender people in their production of culture, access to accurate medical knowledge and their sense of self? How do trans youth act to define the…

Melinda Thielbar, a data scientist at Fidelity Investments, will take you on a whirlwind tour of her varied career and talk about how the skills she built at each step led to the next. From the day a college recruiter told her she was bad at math, to the minute she walked across the stage…

What does it take to power Centennial Campus? NC State Facilities Division staff will take you behind the scenes at the Centennial Campus Utility Plant. You will earn how NC State generates energy on-site and reduces energy costs. This event is part of NC State Energy Week.