/ Textiles Content for UC Davis en /arts/blog/memoriam-jo-ann-stabb-professor-emerita-and-namesake-design-collection <ul class="list--pipe"> <li>&nbsp;</li> </ul> <div> <p><span><span><span>Jo Ann Stabb, a founding member of the UC Davis Department of Design and a widely recognized scholar of textiles, died Feb. 13 in Walnut Creek, California. She was 80.</span></span></span></p></div> March 15, 2022 - 4:10pm Karen Michele Nikos /arts/blog/memoriam-jo-ann-stabb-professor-emerita-and-namesake-design-collection /blog/grant-will-support-work-improve-ppe-healthcare-workers <p>A multidisciplinary team of researchers is working to improve the design, function and safety of personal protective equipment, or PPE, for health care workers.</p> November 03, 2021 - 10:08am Andy Fell /blog/grant-will-support-work-improve-ppe-healthcare-workers /news/uc-davis-included-national-partnership-accelerate-innovation-fibers-and-textiles <p>The University of California, Davis, is a partner in a new federally funded&nbsp;Manufacturing Innovation Institute,&nbsp;Advanced Functional Fibers of America,&nbsp;designed to accelerate innovation in high-tech, U.S.-based manufacturing involving fibers and textiles.</p> <p>The proposal for the institute was led by Professor Yoel Fink, director of the&nbsp;Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The partnership includes 31 universities, 16 industry members, 72 manufacturing entities, and 26 startup incubators, spread across 28 states.</p> April 01, 2016 - 10:15am Andy Fell /news/uc-davis-included-national-partnership-accelerate-innovation-fibers-and-textiles