Month: January 2016

Jan 28, 2016

YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund Competition Well Worth the Effort

By Megan Stitt, Fashion and Textile Management Major, Wilson College of Textiles, NC State The Wilson College of Textiles presents us as students with so many wonderful opportunities, we just have to learn to seize them. I almost didn’t enter the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund http://www.ymafsf.org/  competition because of all the hard work it posed throughout… 

Jan 25, 2016

Researcher Wins Grant for Textile Manufacturing Innovation

The Walmart Foundation and the U.S. Conference of Mayors announced NC State as one of this year’s Innovation Fund grant recipients for their innovation in improving textile weaving efficiency. NC State will receive nearly $575,000. The 2016 round of grants are focused on innovations in textile manufacturing processes. Dr. Abdel-Fattah Mohamed Seyam, professor and Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor in the… 

Jan 15, 2016

Four College of Textiles Students Win YMA Fashion Scholarships

Four N.C. State Wilson College of Textiles students were recently awarded scholarships from the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund, a nonprofit made up of influential members of the fashion industry that works to offer support and encouragement to young people pursuing careers in design, merchandising, retailing and business. Fashion and textile management majors Megan Stitt (Raleigh,…