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Bananas for fabric

Wed, Sep 13, 2017

When Joyce Nabisaalu taught at Kyambogo University in Uganda and saw her colleague making paper from banana stems, she thought, “Why not more?” Nabisaalu, now an apparel design and production doctoral student at Oklahoma State University, has taken her idea to the next level by researching how to turn banana fibers into fabric.

College of Education and Human SciencesBusinessDepartment of Design and MerchandisingFood Land and Natural ResourcesResearchEngineering and Design
Small town, big dreams: Jeretta Horn Nord made her own path

Tue, Sep 12, 2017

She may have been born in Sherman, Texas, in 1956, but Jeretta Horn Nord has always been an Oklahoma gal. The management science and information systems professor grew up on a ranch in Colbert, Oklahoma, with an older sister and a younger brother.

Spears School of BusinessDepartment of Management Science and Information SystemsBusiness
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