Awards 

Faculty

Changhai Xu, David Hinks, and Renzo Shamey received the William J. Weaver Award for Outstanding Contribution to Textile Literature in 2011.

Information regarding William J. Weaver Award
The AATCC Publications Committee presents the J. William Weaver Paper of the Year Award to the author or authors of the best peer reviewed paper published in the AATCC journal each year for outstanding contribution to textile literature.

Even before it began publishing its own journal, AATCC had a long-standing tradition of friendly rivalry among authors. From 1925 to 1933, awards were presented for the best AATCC conference papers published by American Dyestuff Reporter. From 1940 to 1996, an Inter-sectional Paper Competition winner was chosen each year. In January 1969, AATCC began publishing Textile Chemist and Colorist and in February 1979, an annual award was established to honor the best paper printed in that journal.

In 1990, the award was named for J. William Weaver, who was chair of the AATCC editorial board at the time of his death. Over the years, winning papers have covered a variety of topics, including antimicrobial textiles, color measurement and calculation, computer technology, exhaust dyeing, fiber-surface modification, formaldehyde, hydrogen peroxide bleaching, indigo dyeing, jet dyeing, metal content, recycling, soil release finishes, vacuum slot extraction, and yellowing.

The award includes a framed certificate signed by the AATCC president and the Publications Committee chair. It is presented at AATCC’s International Conference.

At the NC State 22nd Annual Celebration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship ceremony in Fall 2011, Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi and Mr. Stephen Sharp were recognized for their patents: "High strength, durable fabrics produced by fibrillating multilobal fibers" and "Lightweight high-tensile, high-tear strength bicomponent nonwoven fabrics".

Dr. Ghosh was recognized for his patent: "Electroactive nanostructured polymers as tunable organic actuators".

Dr. Shamey and Dr. El-Tahlawy were recognized for their start-up company: Nanofoam LLC.

Dr. Subhash K. Batra, Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center at NC State University and Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi Nonwovens Institute, NC State University have published their first book entitled, "Introduction to Nonwovens Technology." Learn more

Dr. A. Blanton Godfrey, dean of the College of Textiles, received the North Carolina Hospital Association's 2011 Meritorious Service Award for leadership in ensuring quality in health care.

Godfrey lent his expertise in quality improvement to national demonstration projects, including the 100K Lives Campaign credited with preventing 128,000 deaths by reducing patient complications and error in hospitals. He collaborated with Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and pediatrician who led the nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement before his 2010 appointment as administrator for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Godfrey, also the Joseph D. Moore Professor of Textile and Apparel Technology and Management, joined NC State in 2000 after serving as chairman and CEO of Juran Institute, a quality management consulting firm, for 13 years. Prior to that, he was head of the Quality Theory and Technology Department of AT&T Bell Laboratories. For 19 years he was an adjunct professor at Columbia University, teaching graduate courses in quality management and control. He was a guest lecturer in clinical quality management at Harvard University for four years.

Godfrey holds master's and doctoral degrees in statistics from Florida State University and a bachelor's in physics from Virginia Tech.

To view the video please visit http://www.ncsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/bulletin/2011/08/godfrey-honored-for-health-care-leadership/

Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi was named NC State's Innovator of the Year for 2010. Pourdeyhimi is the William A. Klopman Distinguished Chaired Professor of Materials in the College of Textiles and a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the College of Engineering. Currently he serves as the associate dean for industry research and extension in the College of Textiles and is also the executive director of the Nonwovens Institute and the Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center (NCRC). To read the entire article please visit http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/college/collegenews/innovator_of_the_year_pourdeyhimi.html

Several College of Textiles faculty received awards at a ceremony in which NC State University celebrated its achievements in innovation and entrepreneurship for 2010. Drs. Richard Kotek and Alan Tonelli were recognized for their patent: "High Modulus Polyamide Fibers" and Dr. Marion McCord was recognized for her start-up company Katharos, Inc.

Dr. Marion McCord and Dr. Russell Gorga also were part of a team that worked with Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) and their founder Elizabeth Scharpf to developed a cost-effective prototype of a sanitary pad made from banana tree fibers for undeveloped countries such as Rwanda. SHE was the winner of the 2010 Curry Stone Design Prize that was worth $100,000. To learn more about this project and to view the video please visit http://currystonedesignprize.com/recipients/2010/sustainable_health_enterprises

Dr. Cindy Istook has been promoted to Full Professor. She is the first female that has been promoted to Full Professor with Tenure in the College of Textiles.

Dr. Stephen Michielsen has been promoted to the rank of Professor in the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science.

Dr. Russell Gorga, Associate Professor and Program Director in Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science was recently at Iowa State University to receive the Professional Progress in Engineering Award. The story can be found at: http://news.engineering.iastate.edu/?p=1180

Dr. Marian McCord, Associate Professor in TECS and co-founder and co-owner of Katharos Inc.received an honorable mention at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's sixth annual Carolina Challenge entrepreneurial business-plan competition on March 27. Katharos project was, commercializing a novel technology to manage poor blood phosphate control in end-stage kidney disease patients who are undergoing hemodialysis. Team members are co-founders and co-owners Melanie S. Joy, PharmD, Ph.D., UNC School of Medicine and Kidney Center faculty member, and Marian G. McCord, Ph.D., N.C. State Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science and UNC-N.C. State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering faculty membe. NC BioStart entrepreneur-in-residence Perry A. Genova served as advisor.

Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Director of The Nonwovens Institute, was selected as the Outstanding Extension Service Award recipient for the College of Textiles and inducted into the Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension. This award is given in recognition of your dedication and demonstrated achievements in serving the people of North Carolina. Dr. Pourdeyhimi was also the NC State university award winner for the 2008-2009 NC State Alumni Outstanding Extension Service Award.

Dr. Renzo Shamey, Associate Professor and Program Director of Polymer and Color Chemistry, was elected by the Society of Dyers and Colourist Board of Trustees as a Fellow of the Society.

Dr. Warren Jasper and Jack Neely (from the Office of Information Technology) has received the university wide Gertrude M. Cox Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology. The name of the award was "Infrastructure Project Award."

Dr. Katherine Carroll
2010 Triangle Access Award, Alliance of Disability Advocates, Raleigh, NC. Awarded to the Textile Products for People with Disabilities program, July 2010, for efforts to improve quality of life for people with disabilities in the Greater Triangle area. With contributions from Dr. Tim Clapp, Erin Smith, Sharon Joines and Dr. Russell Gorga.

Dr. William Oxenham was awarded an Honorary Fellow of the Textile Institute, December 2009 First established in 1928, this is the highest honor that the Institute can award to an individual member in recognition of personal creativity and the advancement of knowledge achieved over many years. It covers all occupational areas of the Institute's work, including science, technology, marketing and management.

Traci Lamar
Exhibition Catalog Editor for the 2010 International Textile and Apparel Association Design Exhibition.

Dr. Moon Suh
Keynote speaker, The Fiber Society, Turkey, May, 2010

Dr. Nancy Cassill
2009 Pearson / Prentice Hall Lecturer, (ITAA) International Textile and Apparel Association

Dr. Cynthia Istook
American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA), Leadership Council Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor for the College of Textiles for 2009-2010.

Dr. Lori Rothenberg received Outstanding Extension Service Awards at the Eighth Annual Extension, Engagement, and Economic Development "Celebrating the Engaged University" Awards Ceremony. The ceremony was held Monday, April 19 at the McKimmon Center for Extension and Continuing Education, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

Staff

Philip Dail, director of admissions and advising for the College of Textiles, has been selected as one of the Distinguished Speakers for the First Annual Distinguished Professor Lecture Series that is being hosted by NC State Student Government. This Lecture Series will take place on March 1, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Student Government invited the top three professors on campus to come and speak to a crowd of 600+ in Stewart Theater that will include students, faculty members, as well as administrators. Nominations for this prestigious event were open to all students in January. Dail was one of three professors chosen and it shows he has had a tremendous impact on multiple students' lives.

Students

Mangesh Champhekar, a PhD candidate in the Fiber and Polymer Science program under the direction of Dr. Wendy Krause, was selected as one of 12 winners of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards given by the NC State University Graduate Student Association. This past year, there were over 1000 Teacher Assistants at NC State. Of those, only the top 83 were nominated for the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards and only 12 of those were selected for the award. Mangesh has been a tremendous Teacher Assistant over the past three years and is very deserving of this award.

Min Li was selected as winner of the 2012 AATCC Herman and Myrtle Goldstein Student Paper Competition. This award was given for a student paper competition at the AATCC International Conference held in Charlotte, NC. Min Li is a student in the MS Textile Chemistry Program under the direction of Dr. David Hinks and Dr. Renzo Shamey.

The title of her presentation was: "One Bath Enzymatic Desizing, Scouring and Activated Bleaching: An Environmentally Benign Approach to Cotton Bleaching".