Posted July 1, 2016

 

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Radhika Vaid of North Carolina State University (NCSU) was recently awarded the first Kanti & Hansa Jasani Family Textile Scholarship, the AATCC announced.

 

The $1,500 award is available to students who are Indian citizens with a student visa or with permanent residency, who are attending an American university with an AATCC student chapter and are pursuing undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate studies in the field of textiles. The scholarship was made available through an endowment with AATCC Foundation by the Kanti & Hansa Jasani Family.

 

Vaid is a graduate student working towards a Ph.D at the NCSU College of Textiles. Her research has been focused around fiber and polymer science. Vaid is originally from Himachal Pradesh, India, and earned her Master of Technology degree from IIT, Delhi.

 

Kanti A. Jasani came from India in 1969 to pursue a master’s degree in textiles at NCSU. He and his family saw a need for students seeking to further studies in textiles from India, which encouraged the family to establish the Scholarship.

 

Source: AATCC