Meet Young Alumna Brielle Papalia ’15
Degree B.S. Fashion and Textile Management, Brand Management and Marketing, 2015 Job Title Assistant Product Development Manager at Gap Inc. Hometown Kernersville, NC Current City/State...
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Heart Maker: Meet New TECS Assistant Professor Jessica Gluck
Written by Cameron Walker Photo: TECS Associate Professor Jessica Gluck working in her laboratory What if you could create a new heart from a patient’s own...
Chancellor’s Creating Community Awards Go Virtual
The annual Chancellor’s Creating Community Awards honor outstanding faculty, staff, colleges, students and student organizations that have made exceptional efforts and contributions in the areas of equity, diversity and inclusion.
Designing Your Own Career: Meet Entrepreneur Ritika Shamdasani
Cover image: Laura King | Written by Delisha Hinton and Maggie Kimmett At the age of 16, Ritika Shamdasani and her sister, Niki Shamdasani, co-founded...
2020 Outstanding Global Engagement Award Recipients Announced
The Outstanding Global Engagement Award encourages and recognizes outstanding accomplishment in globally engaged teaching, student support, research, extension, and/or engagement and economic development by faculty and non-faculty professionals of North Carolina State University. Nominees for this award should have made […]
From Peace Corps to Peace Goods
Textile Technology alumna Kyley Schmidt ‘00 put her degree to work during a tour with the Peace Corps, helping the rural community of Soatanana in Madagascar turn their tradition of weaving with wild silk into a sustainable industry. With her support, they honed their skills, organized into a cooperative and have increased their household income by 70%.
Cloth and Computer Screen: Meet Kate Nartker
Meet Kate Nartker, new TATM assistant professor in the Wilson College of Textiles at NC State, who creates her art where cloth meets computer screen. The textile artist has created innovative works including animations in Jacquard weaving.
Designed for Deconstruction
Some problems are so big, so systemic, they can seem insurmountable, such as textile waste, generated at the rate of more than 11 million tons per year in the U.S.; textile wastewater, one of the world’s major environmental pollution problems; or carbon dioxide pollution from fossil fuel combustion, the driving cause of global climate change. We need a catalyst, an agent of significant change to turn the encroaching tide. Enter researchers like TECS associate professor Sonja Salmon at the Wilson College of Textiles at NC State.
New Year, New Blue
Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2020 is Classic Blue (PANTONE 19-4052) -- a rich, saturated shade redolent of the sky at dusk or deep pools of undisturbed water. Read more about Pantone, how it selects its Color of the Year and how colors can be trademarked.
Gold Medal Design
Anna Henry graduates this December with a degree in FTM. Inspired by her gold medal-winning brother, she designed her senior collection for Special Olympics North Carolina athletes.