Elon University / Today at Elon / Junior engineers partner with local textile company to develop sustainable dyes

Gerard Ortiz

A staff of 3rd-yr engineering majors led by Vivian Krause ’24 and mentored by Assistant Professor of Engineering Jonathan Su is collaborating with Burlington’s Sound Point out Apparel and TS Patterns to come across the best way to protect all-natural dyes. An Elon engineering major’s independent exploration into sustainable dyes […]

From Textile Waste to Refugee Livelihoods

Gerard Ortiz

Two obtrusive data adhere with Ming-Ming Tung-Edelman, founder of Seattle-primarily based Refugee Artisan Initiative. “Refugee gals have the highest unemployment amount, about 60 percent,” she claims, “and above 85 {05995459f63506108ab777298873a64e11d6b9d8e449f5580a59254103ec4a63} of the textile squander ends up in landfills.” She started out the Refugee Artisan Initiative (RAI) in 2017 to deal […]