Fall Already? Who’s Up for the Pubs?

This has become something of a semi-regular post now, which can't be said for most of the content that appears on this blog. It's also the only type of post in which this image 1) appears more than once and 2) gets reused on a regular basis. If you're not familiar with our previous updates …

Kathy Oswald, PhD

Classes start at NC State next week, which signals the return of students, exasperated student emails, and most importantly, regular CRDM blog updates. With that timing in mind, we're pleased to announce our most recent doctor to the world, Kathy F. Oswald, PhD. She sailed through her dissertation defense on Thursday, armed no doubt with …

Heidi Hess von Ludewig, ABD

Not two days after my catch-all post comes news of our freshest doctoral candidate, Heidi Hess von Ludewig. Not to be confused with Ludwig von Koopa, Heidi was newly minted as All But Dissertation on Wednesday afternoon and will now begin working on erasing the All But with her research project. Tentatively titled, "Networked creativity: …

The Puns of August

Well, this is awkward. It's been a while since we've posted any program updates (since May, actually) so we have a lot to report. Normally, each of these notes of interest would get their own dedicated posts, but with the heat wave this summer affecting Raleigh harder than most, our keyboards all melted together and …