TAPPI Corrugated Division Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Scholarship Awarded to Michelle Blood

The TAPPI Corrugated Packaging Division's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Corrugated Scholarship has been awarded to Michelle Blood of N.C. State University. The award will be officially announced during the 2013 CorrExpo Conference, October 7-9, 2013, in Indianapolis, Ind., USA.

"The corrugated packaging industry requires outstanding young science and engineering professionals to pursue a career in the pulp and paper industry in order for the industry to continue to innovate and prosper," comments Larry N. Montague, TAPPI president and CEO. "Michelle Blood is simply a great example of the type of future leader our industry needs to be successful and we are very pleased to provide this scholarship to support her as she works towards her undergraduate degree."

Blood is a fifth-year student at N.C. State University studying Paper Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering. She currently serves as VP of the TAPPI Student Chapter. Her work experience includes: two co-op rotations at Packaging Corporation of America in Valdosta, Ga.; the process engineering group with Rayonier Performance Fibers in Jesup, Ga.; and Technical Sales Intern for Ashland in Rockingham, N.C. and Bennettsville, S.C. She recently returned from a two-week trip to China with faculty and students from the Paper Science program at N.C. State.

The Corrugated Packaging Division established its scholarship program to encourage talented science and engineering students to pursue careers in the corrugated containers industry and to utilize their talents in advancing the science and technology of papermaking.

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