Vadodara: A PhD scholar of M S University’s Department of Clothing and Textiles of Faculty of Family and Community Sciences (FFCS) has been awarded a fully-funded MITACS accelerate scholarship.
MITACS is a Canadian network of centers of excellence that supports research-based innovation and works closely with industry, academia and government in Canada.
Under guidance of FFCS dean professor Anjali Karolia, the research scholar Ankita Shroff had received Indo-Canadian Shastri research student fellowship in 2019 on the basis of which she worked at University of Alberta’s Department of Human Ecology for a semester.
Her research work aims to develop an antimicrobial and insect-repellent fabric that can preserve museum textiles from deterioration.