From textiles to DNA: First Pillowtex employee to land a job at N.C. Research Campus now a lab technician
Randy Crowell was just 6 years old when Spencer physician Dr. Charles Eddinger let him peer into a microscope during a check-up.
Staring at the flying saucer-shaped cells suspended in a drop of blood, Crowell felt as though he had discovered another world. The little boy decided he would become a scientist.
It took 44 years and layoffs at both Pillowtex and Duracell, but Crowell finally achieved his childhood aspiration. He works as a lab technician in the Core Laboratory at the N.C. Research Campus, sequencing DNA and pursuing his personal mission to help people through science.
"Dreams can come true," Crowell said.
The Research Campus, a $1.5 billion biotechnology complex, rises from the ruins of an old textile mill in downtown Kannapolis.
For more details, see the Salisbury Post report.
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