UNC System President Emeritus Bill Friday '41, right, during his student days at NC State. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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Who would have thought that one of the biggest complaints firefighters have about their job is the gloves? It’s a problem researchers in the College of Textiles are trying to solve with the help of a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant. News Services reports that they’ll be working to make gloves “with less bulk and greater hand dexterity” without sacrificing fire protection.
“Firefighters frequently say that bulky gloves impede their ability to pick up things and turn knobs – which can be critical in emergency situations,” says Dr. Roger Barker, professor of textile engineering chemistry and science, director of the Textile Protection and Comfort Center (T-PACC), and lead researcher on the study. “There have been improvements in fabrics over the years. What we need now are advances in the functional design of the glove itself, to go along with the advances in glove materials.”
They’ll be testing the material on the PyroHands Fire Test System, which “is part of a sophisticated facility that features computerized, animated analysis of the response of heat sensors to permit the study of garment and body reaction to intense heat and flames.”
A woman boarding knit hosiery at the North Carolina State College School of Textiles. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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NC State News Services posted a couple of YouTube clips recently that give you an idea of the breadth of work done here. The first, above, is from a forensics discovery and recovery course that’s part of the N.C. Program for Forensic Science, which trains state law enforcement officers and medical examiners. Warning: There is an image of a dead pig in the clip.
The second looks at the work of forestry doctoral student Chris Hopkins ’05 MR, who’s part of a group here looking at ways to turn woodchips into a substitute for coal. Pretty cool stuff!
Today, we were pointed to two neat articles in the press that feature NC State experts and make for good Friday afternoon reading. . .
The first, from CNN, is about an expected battle in Congress over buying American when purchasing uniforms for the military. Producers visited the College of Textiles, where materials were tested, and talked with Roger Barker, a professor who studies the thermal protective performance of fabrics and clothing. If they ever put up the video from the piece, we’ll post it.
And from Wine Spectator, an article on the effort at NC State to decode the brettanomyces genome.
Brettanomyces, aka brett, can be a winemaker’s worst enemy. A yeast species that contaminates wine and corrupts the entire fermentation process, brettanomyces can lead to flavors best described as sweaty horse, manure, Band-Aid and burnt plastic. At lower levels, some find it pleasantly spicy, with cedar and earth undertones. But higher concentrations ruin a wine completely.
An unidentified woman demonstrates textiles machinery in Tompkins Hall in the 1950s. See the note below if you know this woman. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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You might have missed the popular 2009 Art to Wear fashion show when it was held April 23 in Reynolds Coliseum, but it’s not too late to see the students’ designs. The video above includes highlights from the night and interviews with designers and Caldwell Fellows Vansana Nolintha and Shelley Smith. Some of the student-designed entries will also be on display in the storefront windows of boutiques at Raleigh’s Cameron Village through Sunday, May 17. Art to Wear is a collaborative effort between students in the colleges of Design and Textiles.
If you can’t make it to Cameron Village and want to see more: Visit the Technician’s multimedia presentation to get a feel for why The N&O’s fashion writer said the eighth annual show “hit a new level of dazzle power.” And read a recap here and here, watch another video and check out this gallery and this one.
From left, professors Henry Rutherford and Arthur Armstrong ’47, ’49 MS, ’57 PHD in the basement of Nelson Hall in 1958. The gates are part of an underground facility built to store water and food supplies in case of nuclear attack during the Cold War. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
NC State’s Special Collections Research Center has more than 18,000 images in its online database that you can view.
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Traci Lamar, an associate professor in the College of Textiles, has been leading a team that's designing a better hospital gown. (Photograph courtesy of NC State News Services)
“The fact is, when patients are in a hospital they are already feeling vulnerable – the last thing they need to deal with is a garment that intensifies that feeling by leaving them uncovered and overexposed,” says Dr. Traci Lamar, associate professor of textile and apparel technology and management at NC State.
The Wall Street Journal featured the college’s efforts in an article today: (more…)
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