Film transcript
F: Female speaker
M: Male speaker
C: Child
F: Remember we talked about what first-year students will say on that first day when you ask them if they do any writing. And most of them say no. I want you all to back off of that first and think about yourselves as writers.
F: In final exams we have an open house so that you all can get your projects through industry sponsors as well as other faculty in both the College of Management and the College of Engineering.
M: What do you want to do here?
M: We need to do a test.
M: Right.
M: So there’s an owner and there’s a user side of them that they’ve invited that. These are these people and they can activate an account. They log a lot of events that happen in the web interface.
F: That’s fascinating! Look at how they really give you some real estate terms. It’s really fantastic!
M: Unlike mammals, birds have a lot of ribs that extend well up into their neck.
F: Do they have a corticoid?
M: A corticoid? Yes, they do. This is like when we studied the mammal, this is a little bitty projection, but here in the bird it’s a major bone of the thoracic girdle.
F: This class is Avian Anatomy and Physiology. And today we learned about skeletal anatomy in birds, which is very interesting. They have a whole different bone that mammals don’t have.
F: I did my undergraduate work at Yale University. I thought about being a doctor but in being a doctor you only get to work with one single species. In veterinary medicine you work with a wide variety of species and it’s a huge challenge. I picked State because of the amazing opportunities that they have here for working with animals almost as soon as you get here. And the technology here is very impressive.
M: I think that’s a good idea. This time we’ll go for a blue laser.
M: I think that would be great and I think it’s good for undersea communications. Don’t forget substrates because we want to view a….
M: So who can find a plant here that might work well for around the outside of a container? Any ideas?
M: So how about this blood leaf?
M: Now this blood leaf is perfect, Jason.
F: This class is Floricultural Crop Production.
F: I always wanted a job where I could work hands-on and horticulture definitely provides that for me. Last year I went to Italy and the South of France with the Horticulture Departmental Garden tours. And this year we’ll be going to England. We’re going to see the Chelsea Flower Show, which is a big deal.
F: The extension services provided by North Carolina State University are statewide. There is an extension agent in every county in the state.
F: We are considered field faculty of NC State. Stem stabilization is a very important issue in Dare County because sand is highly erodable both from wind and from water. We teach about the different native plants that stabilize the sand such as American beach grass and sea oats and seashore elders.
M: Across the state there are almost 1,600 Christmas tree growers, almost 1,400 of them grow Fraser Fur here in the mountains. The annual harvest of Christmas trees is approaching five to five-and-a-half million trees each year. Those trees generate $100 to $110 million annually.
M: This one’s over 45 degree angle. It needs to come out all the way.
M: This year we’re fortunate enough to have one of our growers sending trees to the White House.
M: Does anyone know what a maple leaf looks like?
M: Today these children are doing a scavenger hunt, an environmental education program here at the Eastern 4-H Center.
C: I found an oak leaf.
M: All right!
M: Our whole goal in the Science House is to make science and math learning more hands-on. We’re going to start with this object here called a Vander graph Electrostatic Generator. It’s producing something called slip stick friction. First we want to put our rear end down on the nails because rear ends tend to spread out pretty well. Here we go; we’re going to give it a pretty good hit here. That nitrogen is a lot cooler than room temperature.
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M: Can you hear me?
F: Oh my gosh! Can you hear me as well?
M: Yeah.
M: Here you go. The Mars Tumbleweed is designed to serve as a scout rover, to travel long distances and it uses the wind to allow it to tumble along the Martian surface.
M: With a Mars Tumbleweed rover you could potentially go miles per day, which would let us learn about the Mars surface a lot more quickly than we could with a typical rover.
M: The on-board instrument unit which is mounted in an internally positioned gimble would allow the instruments to remain upright at all times while the entire structure is just moving around over it. And in this way we are able to get relatively clean data.
M: The Mars rover also has the potential to reach places that conventional Mars rovers can’t go such as into deep canyons or valleys.
M: This is something that is being worked at NASA. As undergraduates we are able to get involved in these projects that ten to fifteen years from now we may actually see on Mars.
M: The textile industry in the US is the largest in the world. Historically the raw materials in this case are polymers and plastics. And in one step you can break those into fabrics that are used in a variety of applications, most notably all of the medical textiles: surgical gowns, face masks, wipes, geo-textiles…
M: We melt them in an extruder, pump them down these pipes into the…
M: This section is where?
M: In the residential section.
M: And you are cutting through a courtyard.
M: Into a courtyard.
M: And then the other section is through the lobby.
M: Through the lobby area.
M: And the lobby would be located somewhere within…
M: And this is facing west?
M: Western elevation.
M: And this building contains…?
M: …and then turn and wraparound, leaving a clear place for you to see out as look out onto a landing quarter there.
M: So see if you can guess which President made this statement. “When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.”
F: Woodrow Wilson?
M: You’d think, right? You’d think somebody like Wilson, somebody who is idealistic. But who said that?
M: It was Eisenhower.
M: It was Eisenhower. And why? Why would Eisenhower say something like that?
M: He saw the killing fields of World War II.
M: The military, and particularly their leaders, tends to be more averse to casualties and less willing to engage in military operations because…
F: Today we were running our product paper machine, nicknamed The Baby Wolfpack. I was working around at the wet end of the paper machine and I was adjusting the air pressure on a press roll. If the paper is too wet it’s not strong enough to support itself and it will break on the machine. If the paper is too dry the specifications are not correct for the customer. So you have to constantly make small adjustments.
I am from Virginia so I am an out-of-state student. But fortunately I was able to obtain an academic scholarship so I could afford to come to school. NC State has the largest and most well-known paper science program in the world. And so I feel like I’m getting a world class education here.
M: Our students, our faculty and our staff achieve extraordinary results in all they do. And Achieve!, the campaign for NC State, is an example of our innovative, results-oriented approach. You all know that strong financial support from our alumni, our corporate partners and the citizens of North Carolina is critical to our success. Your gifts will help to continue NC State’s tradition of listening and responding to the needs of the state and the nation. Join us! Come be a part of a great university. Together we will play a significant role in building a better future!
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M: In 2008 we will celebrate the successful conclusion of this campaign. We will have significantly increased our endowment for faculty and students. We will have built first-rate facilities and we will have improved the lives of the citizens of North Carolina.
M: I really think that I’m going to pursue bioethics as a career, whether I go to law school or go for a masters in bioethics.
M: My dream would be either to be a professor of poultry science, hopefully here, or to be a vice-president in a large poultry company.
F: I hope to be CEO of some company and just really enjoying a life that I’ve been able to build for my family and myself.
F: Twenty years from now I will be a plant manager in a paper mill…
F: I would love to be working in a wildlife clinic and be the head of the clinic.
M: Twenty years from now I plan to be working on manned explorations of Mars and the moon.
M: I really want to start my own company that takes ideas from their infancy and try to take them out to a high enough level that the Boeing’s and the NASA’s of the world can then make them a reality.
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