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Byrd named TAPPI Fellow

Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI)

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Mar 10, 2023

Martin Hubbe awarded 2023 Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award

Established in 1928, the Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award is the highest honor that the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) can bestow upon an individual. 
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Feb 22, 2023

Lavoine selected for 2022 TAPPI NanoDivision Mid-Career Award

Lavoine, an assistant professor of forest biomaterials at NC State, studies the use of biomass-derived nanoparticles for sustainable product design, processing and engineering. 

May 20, 2014

Byrd named TAPPI Fellow

Dr. Medwick V. Byrd, director of undergraduate programs in paper science and engineering at North Carolina State University, has been named a Fellow of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) for 2014.