January 15, 2025 Professor Shepherd presented the RAD Lab’s work on Sustainable & Functional Fabrics to the Sustainable Susquehanna Workshop at SUNY Oneonta. | |
November 14, 2024 Check out the RAD lab’s newly published work, Waste Bombyx Mori Silk Textiles as Efficient and Reuseable Bio-Adsorbents for Methylene Blue Dye Removal and Oil–Water Separation, in Fibers MDPI. For a less technical overview, visit the Cornell Chronicle . Great work Hansadi Jayamaha and Isabel Schorn! | |
November 6, 2024 Congratulations to Hansadi for passing her A Exam ! | |
October 2024 Hansadi presented her work on using refuse silk as a biosorbent for MB dye and oil removal water at AATCC. | |
June 2024 Congratulations to Hansadi for being selected as a CTL Fellow! | |
June 17, 2024 Professor Shepherd talks about Optically Functional Fibers and Fabrics (OFFs) and the RAD Lab’s work with Werewool. Learn more about Use-Inspired Design at CCMR by watching the full eCornell Keynote. | |
June 8, 2024 Learn how to beat the heat this summer. Prof. Shepherd talks with The Washington Post, Linen or cotton: Which fabric keeps you cooler in the sticky summer heat? |
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May 8, 2024 Professor Shepherd created an interactive learning session for a group of high school students from the New Visions program to continue sharing the wonderful world of fibers and textiles with our community. | |
May 2, 2024 Congratulations to Isabel for presenting her work and winning best poster in her category at Cornell’s CURB Spring Symposium! | |
March 27, 2024 Our group and community had a great day today! Handsadi and Prof. Shepherd published their work on Chiroptical Strain Sensors from Electrospun Cadmium Sulfide Quantum-Dot Fibers in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces with their collaborators Thomas Ugras, Kirt Page, Tobias Hanrath, and Richard Robinson. Professor Shepherd and Fiber Science graduate student, Dorota Szlek, delved into the wonderful world of fibers and textiles with Watkins Glen Middle School students visiting Cornell for career exploration. |
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January, 2024 Congratulations to Hansadi for receiving funding from AATCC to help support her work on filtration. | |
November 28, 2023 Hansadi presents her work on Structure-Property Relationships of Electrospun CdS Quantum Dot Fibers with Mechanically Modulated Reversible Chirality at the Materials Research Society‘s Fall Conference. |
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November 6, 2023 Congratulations to Kyuin for publishing his M.S. thesis work with Dr. Margaret Frey, Designing an Effective and Scalable UV-Protective Cooling Textile with Nanoporous Fibers, in ACS Nano Letters. | |
October 24, 2023 Hansadi presents her work on Strain Responsive Chiral Fibers from Electrospun Cadmium Sulfide Quantum Dots at the Fiber Society Conference at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. |
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October 2023 Larissa Shepherd and Fran Kozen recieve Cotton Incorporated grant to teach about cotton production. Students will run a Blue Jeans Go Green Campus Campaign and collect Cotton T-shirts for a yarn bombing activity on campus to raise awareness of cotton, cotton production, and sustainability. In addtion students will go on a trip during Spring break to see cotton production processes in action! | |
March 10, 2023 Check out the Human knitting machine in FSAD 1350. |
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February 27, 2023 Larissa talks fibers and yarns with Consumer Reports to help you choose the Best Bath Towels. |
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August 4, 2022 Cornell.Design | |
May 31, 2022 Larissa presented her talk “Creating fibers composed solely of quantum dots and their ligands” as a kenote speaker at the Spring 2022 Fiber Society Meeting in Leuven, Belgium. | |
April 6, 2022 Cornell.Design |