AATCC honours Meredith McQuerry with Future Leaders Award

AATCC is the world’s leading not-for-profit association serving textile professionals since 1921. AATCC, headquartered in Research Triangle Park, US, provides test method development, quality control materials, and professional networking for members in about 50 countries throughout the world.

McQuerry is a tenure-track assistant professor in the retail entrepreneurship department at Florida State University. McQuerry joined AATCC in 2012, the same year she graduated with a BS from the University of Kentucky, where she double-majored in merchandising, apparel, and textiles, and career and technical education (family and consumer sciences). In 2013, she received an MS from the University of Kentucky, majoring in merchandising, apparel, and textiles (textile science), and in 2016, earned a PhD in textile technology management from North Carolina State University, AATCC said in a press release.

McQuerry has over $380,000 in research grants. She has 12 journal articles published and seven manuscripts in preparation for submission. One of the journal articles, published with Emil DenHartog and Roger Barker in 2016, received the AATCC J.W. Weaver Paper of the Year Award. She also is a graduate advisor, and undergraduate mentor for students with research scholarships and grants.

Among her many skills, she is certified in Six Sigma Green Belt. She was also a winner of the 2013 AATCC Herman and Myrtle Goldstein Student Paper Competition. She currently is an invited member on the AATCC Strategic Planning Committee and is a faculty advisor for the Florida State University AATCC Student Chapter. (RR)

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