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Mar 18, 2025

Campus Sustainability in Action: Recycling 3D Printing Waste

In the sustainable materials and technology (SMT) program, students develop hands-on skills to tackle environmental challenges, including waste reduction and material reuse. One critical focus is recycling thermoplastics, which are…

Mar 13, 2025

Advancing Sustainability: The 2025 Sustainable and Alternative Fibers Initiative (SAFI) Conference

The Sustainable and Alternative Fibers Initiative (SAFI) is a leading global university-industry partnership in the Department of Forest Biomaterials at NC State University. SAFI is dedicated to researching, developing, and…

Feb 20, 2025

2025 TAPPI Student Summit

–Savannah Odom ’28 and Sara Gregory ’27 As a first-year student, I got to experience one of the best parts of TAPPI for the first time – Student Summit. The…

Feb 19, 2025

2025 PPAB Spring Meeting and Celebration Banquet

2024 PPAB Banquet with donors, students, faculty and staff.

Feb 19, 2025

PPAB Leadership: Who Are They?

The very underpining of paper science and engineering at NC State is intertwined with the NC State Pulp and Paper Advisory Board. Since its inception in 1954, synomous with the…

Feb 19, 2025

Paper Super Scholars Compete

We welcomed 15 amazing scholarship candidates to campus on February 13 for our annual Paper Super Scholars event which culminates in a day of interviews to select finalists. These exceptional…

Feb 19, 2025

Med Byrd Honored by TAPPI

TAPPI selected Undergraduate Coordinator and teaching professor, Med Byrd for the 2025 TAPPI PIMA Award. The Paper Industry Management Association is a division of TAPPI. They recognized his exceptional leadership…

Feb 19, 2025

Lucian Lucia Recognized by TAPPI

Our research-driven faculty often generate awards for themselves and the department. That was recently the case when TAPPI awarded the 2025 Research and Development Division Award and the William H.…

Feb 14, 2025

Jack Zimmerman Transforms Passion for Nature into Sustainability Action

Jack Zimmerman ’26 talks about his NC State journey so far and how he’s using his love of the outdoors to fuel his goal of working in sustainable design and construction.

Nov 15, 2024

Exploring Sustainability in Action: Sustainable Materials and Technology Students Tour Arauco’s Moncure Plant

Students in the Sustainable Composites and Biopolymers (SMT 444) course recently visited Arauco’s manufacturing plant in Moncure, NC—one of the world’s leading producers of wood panels. This immersive field experience…