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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.
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.
 
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.
 
 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.
FSAD 1350 human knitting
 
 February 27, 2023  Larissa talks fibers and yarns with Consumer Reports to help you choose the Best Bath Towels.
 
 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.DesignInstagram Post Human Centered Design