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Raleigh, Durham and Apex saw a fourth round of No Kings protests on Saturday, raising awareness for the upcoming midterm elections in Central North Carolina. Then, Autumn Smith speaks with Julietta Cantuna from NC State's Association for Latino Professionals of America chapter to discuss the recent Fiesta Latina event and how ALPFA fosters and promotes Latin culture and identity across campus. View the episode transcript. Eye on the Triangle is a podcast produced by WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2, student-run radio from NC State University. Like what you hear? Consider supporting it with a gift to the WKNC Enhancement Fund. Visit our podcast page to hear more and follow us on all social media platforms @WKNC881. Thanks for listening.

Five tornados hit central North Carolina on Sunday, causing notable damage in the Neuse Crossing neighborhood in north Raleigh. Damage to houses, cars and roads in Wake, Johnston and Cumberland County was reported by WRAL. Early voting is starting on October 15th and Pack the Polls, NC State's nonpartisan voting coalition, is providing shuttles and hosting several events to increase voting education and opportunity for NC State students. Finaly, WKNC's Sydney Semel and Hail Zulueta highlight the increasing costs of NC State dining plans over the last few years. While the exact reasons are unknown, students are paying several hundred dollars more than previous years at the university. View the episode transcript. Eye on the Triangle is a podcast produced by WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2, student-run radio from NC State University. Like what you hear? Consider supporting it with a gift to the WKNC Enhancement Fund. Visit our podcast page to hear more and follow us on all social media platforms @WKNC881. Thanks for listening.

Are Flock Cameras on campus? WKNC's Hail Zulueta and The Nubian Message's Elliott Jackson get to the bottom of ALPR cameras across NC State and Raleigh. The full findings have been published in an article on The Nubian Message. Included in today's news summary is the upcoming voter registration deadline on October 9th, Campus Health's weekly flu vaccine clinic across NC State campus and University Libraries and Theatre's Banned Books Onstage event on October 6th. View the episode transcript. Eye on the Triangle is a podcast produced by WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2, student-run radio from NC State University. Like what you hear? Consider supporting it with a gift to the WKNC Enhancement Fund. Visit our podcast page to hear more and follow us on all social media platforms @WKNC881. Thanks for listening.

Talley Student Union will no longer be an early voting site this year, being replaced by the Business Service Center on Western Boulevard. Autumn Smith details the voting site change and how North Carolinians can make sure they're registered to vote before the deadline on October 9th. Then, Autumn Smith covers the WakeMed-Atrium Health merger, and how it plans to expand the capabilities of the Raleigh-based hospital while causing all-around concern for patient costs. View the episode transcript. Eye on the Triangle is a podcast produced by WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2, student-run radio from NC State University. Like what you hear? Consider supporting it with a gift to the WKNC Enhancement Fund. Visit our podcast page to hear more and follow us on all social media platforms @WKNC881. Thanks for listening.

Vick Hernandez visits the Raleigh Fringe Festival with a deep dive into the history of fringe, organization of the festival, and special interviews with some of the artists and entertainers. Before that, Autumn Smith sits down with Kai Nicanor and Reese Croom of the NC State Pride Center to discuss the upcoming PrideFest events. View the episode transcript. Eye on the Triangle is a podcast produced by WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2, student-run radio from NC State University. Like what you hear? Consider supporting it with a gift to the WKNC Enhancement Fund. Visit our podcast page to hear more and follow us on all social media platforms @WKNC881. Thanks for listening.

Raleigh's new Fourth Ward District, focusing on the entertainment block in the south downtown area, is named to commemorate and honor the Fourth Ward neighbourhood, a Black community that was destroyed in the 1970s. In this episode, Autumn Smith talks with Haley Kinsler, a PhD student at NC State and a member of the Fourth Ward Oral History Project to highlight the history of the area and community effort to preserve the memory of Fourth Ward. Before that, WKNC public affairs creator Sydney Semel provides a weekly news summary, highlighting Raleigh efforts to address homelessness and how NC State plans to combat climate change. View the episode transcript. Eye on the Triangle is a podcast produced by WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2, student-run radio from NC State University. Like what you hear? Consider supporting it with a gift to the WKNC Enhancement Fund. Visit our podcast page to hear more and follow us on all social media platforms @WKNC881. Thanks for listening.

Autumn Smith visits Game & Geek Expo and interviews celebrity guest voice actors Samantha Kelly and Kenny James who formerly voiced Princess Peach and Bowser from the Super Mario series video games. Introducing the episode is WKNC content creator Vick Hernandez, providing updates on the NC State Physical Master Plan, campus parking concerns and the Wolfpack's women's soccer team. View the episode transcript. Eye on the Triangle is a podcast produced by WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2, student-run radio from NC State University. Like what you hear? Consider supporting it with a gift to the WKNC Enhancement Fund. Visit our podcast page to hear more and follow us on all social media platforms @WKNC881. Thanks for listening.

Christina Koch speaks directly with Autumn Smith of WKNC during her visit to NC State campus on August 24th. Then, Autumn Smith speaks with Jeff Thomas and Mady Shelton from Raleigh Retro Gamers about the upcoming Game & Geek Expo on September 5th and 6th. Eye on the Triangle listeners can use the code 'WKNC881' to get 20% off when registering for the event. View the episode transcript. Eye on the Triangle is a podcast produced by WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2, student-run radio from NC State University. Like what you hear? Consider supporting it with a gift to the WKNC Enhancement Fund. Visit our podcast page to hear more and follow us on all social media platforms @WKNC881. Thanks for listening.

Eye on the Triangle's Autumn Smith tours Packapalooza 2026, speaking with two dozen people about NC State and how it feels to represent various departments and organizations at the Hillsborough Street event. If you didn't attend Packapalooza this year, this segment covers everything you missed. Guest features include Dean Garey Fox from the College of Life Sciences & Agriculture, Sarah Thibault with the College of Design, Christopher Wells with the College of Engineering, Caitlyn Muniz and John Amigh with Student Media, Alyssa Gebhardt and Alexandra Tondeur with WKNC, Brooklyn Marion with WolfBytes, members of the Raleigh band Lady Jane Grey, Kaia Filipovic and Kayla Benitez for Student Leadership, Sophie Burgess from Pack Cancer, Dr. Haddy Njie of Gambian Girl Power, Zoe Chan from CUSA, Carson Pruitt with NC State Sustainability, Laura Boyd with Prevention Services and Robert Pelley as a Packapalooza attendee. View the episode transcript. Eye on the Triangle is a podcast produced by WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2, student-run radio from NC State University. Like what you hear? Consider supporting it with a gift to the WKNC Enhancement Fund. Visit our podcast page to hear more and follow us on all social media platforms @WKNC881. Thanks for listening.

Eye on the Triangle returns for the Fall 2026 semester! In this episode, Autumn Smith interviews Donovan Zimmerman from Paperhand Puppet Project about the 2026 production "The Wild Wisdom of the World," a stage performance about the human condition. Beforehand, Hail Zulueta breaks down data about the new AI assistant 'Oscar' on NC State campus and what it says about campus sustainability efforts. View the episode transcript. Eye on the Triangle is a podcast produced by WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2, student-run radio from NC State University. Like what you hear? Consider supporting it with a gift to the WKNC Enhancement Fund. Visit our podcast page to hear more and follow us on all social media platforms @WKNC881. Thanks for listening.

Breyton Hill discusses the history of Earth Day on April 22 and how it came to be one of the largest secular holidays in the world. The theme of Earth Day 2026 is Our Power, Our Planet, which according to EarthDay.org, reflects a fundamental truth: environmental progress doesn’t depend on any single administration or election. It’s sustained by daily actions of communities, educators, workers, and families protecting where they live and work. Breyton invites all of the listeners to get involved in their community for Earth Day and celebrate the beauty that is living on this planet.

In this episode of "Eye on the Triangle," Evie Dallman and Amanda Levinson discuss the arts' place in exciting civic engagement and ways communities can continue restoration within the individual as well as larger bodies of people. We talk radical rest, laborers' rights and artistic action. In our second story, Evie chats with the North Carolina Museum of Art's Head Librarian, Andrew Wang, about North Carolina book culture, zine culture, DIY movements, the NCMA's library as a source for research and media, grassroots efforts in publication and media representation and the End Paper Book Fair's place in these ideas. Finally, we close out with Evie's interview with Kid Lab creators Shannon Newby and Susan Kelly on their initiatives to give kids access to arts education and principles of making with recycled goods.

Breyton Hill attends Brain Night at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. As she explores, she talks to researchers, volunteers, and community members all attending or tabling for Brain Night. Chris Smith, the museum's Coordinator of Current Science Programs explains more about what Brain Night is. The 2026 keynote speaker was Dr. Christa Baker and her postdoc, Dr. Alexandra Venuto, talks about their research in fruit flies. Attendee Zachary Henderson visited their table and shares what he learned. NC State University researcher Dr. Kurt Marsden shares about his work studying zebrafish and how they are surprisingly genetically similar to humans. Dr. John Meitzen's table always has real human brain specimens for visitors to hold. Julia Janosko shares how humbling it is to hold what was someone's consciousness in the palm of your hand. Emily Philips and Ranganath Gopalraj talk about the Neuroscience Club at NC State and how Brain Night is "their Super Bowl." Once again, Chris Smith leaves us with his favorite part of Brain Night: holding a real human brain and nerding out with experts.

Breyton Hill interviews Dr. Kasey Wagoner, a physics professor at NC State, about his career journey, science communication and outreach, as well as why everyone should care about physics. Originally a business major, Dr. Wagoner fell in love with physics after taking an astronomy course in undergrad. He describes how cool it was to ask questions about the origin of the universe and eventually test for the idea of other universes in his PhD. The pair then discusses how to make physics not only accessible but fun. Dr. Wagoner shares about Science on Tap, a place to combine learning with good beer at Lynnwood Brewing Concern. Dr. Wagoner also describes how physics can explain different phenomena of sports. For more about his Sport Science work, you can read his articles on Substack. Lastly, Breyton asks about Dr. Wagoner’s most recent achievement: a digital science communication fellowship. Dr. Wagoner explains some of his ideas he hopes to come out of that fellowship and shares some advice he would give his 20-year-old self. Breyton ends the interview with the Breyton Interrogation: a series of questions to get to know you rather than what you do.

Breyton Hill discusses the history of March being recognized as Women's History Month. She also discusses the careers and achievements of outstanding women in STEM who have changed the world for the better, including Ada Lovelace, Henrietta Lacks, Rosalind Franklin, Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. All these women and many, many more should be celebrated, especially as the 2026 theme of Women's History Month is “Leading the Change: Women Shaping a Sustainable Future”.