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Ahmed El-Shafei Named INVISTA Distinguished Professor of Fiber and Polymer Chemistry

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Students demonstrate their portable sink built with rice bags while professors and judges view their presentation.

Aug 31, 2026

Project With a Purpose: Seniors Turn Rice Bags Into Solutions

Senior Design students participated in a sustainability challenge project during the first week of the fall semester.

Connery Bunn uses a measuring instrument in his research lab. He wears a white lab coat and goggles. Around him is more lab equipment and a behind him is a bright window, flooding the room with natural light.

Aug 25, 2026

TECS REU: Working in a Textile Chemistry Lab as an Undergraduate

As a part of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Connery Bunn worked for 10 weeks in an advanced lab and grew professionally and academically.

Aug 24, 2026

TECS REU: Working in a Textile Engineering Lab as an Undergraduate

Learn about how the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) has given textile engineering student Owen Rector the chance to see if research is right for him while gaining invaluable skills along the way.
Regan Stefanoni and Krusha Patel work in a laboratory, wearing long white lab coats. Bathed in natural light from a window on the left, they both face a counter with racks of small beakers and other lab equipment. They smile as Regan reaches for one of the beakers.

Aug 23, 2026

Undergraduate Research Offers Pathways to Academia, Opens to External Students

The TECS Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) provides invaluable experience for students interested in research, and has offered opportunity to non-Wilson College students for the first time.
High school students wearing lab coats participate in a lab exercise at TexTEC camp. They are in a lab and facing a counter with measuring instruments and sinks. One student wearing a purple lab coat and goggles leans against the counter and smiles at his lab partner.

Aug 22, 2026

TexTEC Starts High Schoolers Early on the Path of TECS

The day camp allows local rising sophomores, juniors and seniors to learn the basics of the Wilson College's academics and research through tours, information sessions and hands-on experiments.
View of the Textiles Complex pod 4 with the fountain in the foreground.

Aug 17, 2026

Wilson College Promotes Six Faculty Members

Five associate professors and one professor received promotions for their achievements in teaching, research and service.
Two smiling high school students hold up white t-shirts and pose for a photo. The shirts read "NC State Wilson College of Textiles. STEP. Summer Textile Exploration Program." They both wear protective goggles and the printing lab sprawls out behind them with industrial machines and students in lab coats.

Aug 5, 2026

High Schoolers Get a Taste of Academic and Campus Life at the Wilson College

The Summer Textile Exploration Program (STEP) gives high schoolers the chance to live on campus and study at the Wilson College of Textiles.
Mansour Mohamed smiles at the camera in front of weaving machinery. He wears a bright white shirt that takes up most of the left-hand corner of the black and white film photograph. The machine behind him has many tubes leading to a loom-like structure.

Jul 24, 2026

Remembering Professor Emeritus Mansour H. Mohamed

Reflect on the industry-changing achievements of the late Mansour H. Mohamed, who taught and researched at the Wilson College of Textiles for nearly 30 years.
Karen Leonas points to a specimen in the hands of another researcher, a man with a dark beard wearing a lab coat and blue latex gloves. Karen also wear a lab coat and gloves with a white button up and a short blonde bob. They stand parallel to a lab counter, with a cabinet of beakers and sink.

Jul 17, 2026

Karen Leonas Named Cornelson Family Distinguished Professor

Read about textiles industry leader Karen Leonas and her continuing work at the Wilson College in the Department of Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management.
Ahmed El-Shafei poses for a portrait in a room with many windows, flooded with sunlight. He has a short dark hair cut and dark-framed glasses. He wears a read and white striped shirt and a red tie.

Jul 16, 2026

Ahmed El-Shafei Named INVISTA Distinguished Professor of Fiber and Polymer Chemistry

Read about the research achievements of Professor El-Shafei and his contributions to the field of fiber and polymer chemistry in the Wilson College’s Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science.