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Seshadri Ramkumar, co-chairman of INDAs India committee, has recently received tenure and has been promoted to associate professor at Texas Tech University (TTU). He supervises the Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory at TTU. He serves as the organizing secretary for the Indo-U.S. collaborative International Conference on Advances in Textiles, Nonwovens and Technical Textiles (ATNT), held annually in India. The 5th edition of ATNT will be held in the South Indian city of Coimbatore July 14-16, 2008, with INDA serving as an honorary sponsor.