{"id":12506,"date":"2018-09-06T09:12:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T13:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/?p=12506"},"modified":"2023-03-04T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T13:41:05","slug":"ph-d-grad-designs-new-t-shirts-celebrating-doctorates-earned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/ph-d-grad-designs-new-t-shirts-celebrating-doctorates-earned\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. Grad Designs New T-Shirts Celebrating Doctorates Earned"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Graduate School has a new way to recognize students who complete their doctorates \u2013 a customizable t-shirt with a space where students can state their area of expertise and proclaim their degree completion.<\/p>\n
The shirts were designed by recent College of Textiles graduate Kelsey Boes, who earned a Ph.D. in fiber and polymer science. Boes\u2019 design was selected as the winner of a contest sponsored by the Graduate School.<\/p>\n
Boes t-shirt design declares, \u201cExpert in\u2026\u201d with a blank white box where recent doctorate earners can write their area of expertise with a permanent marker. Underneath the box, is the phrase, \u201cI earned my doctorate.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Ph.D. or Ed.D. candidates fill out their request for final exam form, they can indicate their t-shirt size. The shirts will be sent to their committees to be presented once they have passed their defense unconditionally. In late summer, students began requesting the shirts, as word spread about the project.<\/p>\n
This was the first shirt design competition Boes had ever entered, though she\u2019s designed t-shirts before. Her interests, going back to her undergraduate studies at Wheaton University in Chicago, span both arts and sciences. She earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in chemistry and studio art.<\/p>\n
For a senior project, she created whimsical icons of elements in the periodic table. She later turned the designs into posters and t-shirts that were sold on the arts vendor site Etsy. She also designed some quilts and fabrics that she sold online.<\/p>\n