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Textile Engineering Course Expands Foundational Fiber Skills

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Lainey Volz wears a blue dress and ponytail and looks at a series of industrial embroidery machines at work in an ITMA showroom. The machines (left) are embroidering yellow fabrics.

Jun 28, 2023

Witnessing Innovation and Making Valuable Connections at ITMA

Wilson College of Textiles students, staff and faculty traveled to Milan, Italy for the world’s largest textile and garment technology exhibition. 
Nigar Sultana and Teresa Fiorito in a lab with lab coats, gloves, protective glasses and masks.

Jun 26, 2023

Nanotechnology Breakthrough in Budhathoki Research Group Could Support Future, Critical Health-tracking Tools

Researchers at the Wilson College of Textiles develop sensors and probes using nanomaterials far smaller than a strand of human hair. 
Richard Kotek (left) shows a student to his right a color chart. The two stand in a chemistry lab in the Wilson College of Textiles. Both wear safety glasses.

Jun 16, 2023

Richard Kotek Reflects Fondly on a Career Path That Took Him from Poland to North Carolina

After retirement, Richard Kotek looks forward to making a lot more visits to his home country of Poland. 
Mira Abed stands to the left of the image holding a Maybelline Vinyl Ink lip product. Behind Abed is a product window display at the L'Oreal New Jersey location.

Jun 7, 2023

Mira Abed ’12, ’19 Celebrates Multifaceted Passions with Big Impacts as Senior Chemist for L’Oréal

The Wilson College of Textiles alumna uses technical knowledge of cosmetics to analyze makeup products before they are launched. 
3D printed carbon dioxide filter

Jun 1, 2023

You Can Make Carbon Dioxide Filters With a 3D Printer

NC State researchers demonstrated that it’s possible to make carbon dioxide capture filters using 3D printing. 
Students in red caps and gowns clap and smile at the ceremony, their family and friends sit in the audience behind them.

May 29, 2023

Celebrate May 2023 Commencement in Photos

Wilson College of Textiles undergraduate, master's and doctoral students officially turned their tassels in May. 
Textile researchers are studying an artificial muscle fiber

May 26, 2023

Artificial Muscle Fibers Could Serve as Cell Scaffolds

NC State researchers found artificial muscle fibers could be used to develop 3-D models of living, moving systems. 
Emily Potok (left) and Laura Potok (right) stand on either side of a white sign that reads "Textiles Complex" at the Wilson College of Textiles campus.

May 25, 2023

Sisters Pursue Their Master’s Together at the Wilson College of Textiles

Emily and Laura Potok earned different undergraduate degrees but have reunited in graduate school to pursue their master’s in textile engineering. 
Battery prototype with thread-like cathode

May 24, 2023

Researchers Design Battery Prototype With Fiber-Shaped Cathode

NC State researchers made a cathode, or the positive end of a battery, in the shape of a thread-like fiber. 
Two students look at a microscope. The one closest to the camera adjusts the plate. The one furthest from the camera looks into the lens.

May 23, 2023

Textile Engineering Course Expands Foundational Fiber Skills

Textile engineering students in TE 201: Fiber Science leave the course with all the skills and knowledge they need to create their own fibers.