Category: Faculty/Staff

Theanne Schiros Is on a ‘Mission Unstoppable’

FIT Honors Public Safety Officers

FIT-Barnard Collaboration Challenges Students to Make Art with Code

Kyunghee Pyun Describes How Korean Fashion Went Global at GWU Colloquium

C.J. Yeh to Join Review Board of SIGGRAPH, Premier Design Conference

Yuniya Kawamura Speaks at Phoenix Art Museum

Textile Development and Marketing Faculty and Students Collaborate on Research

Who’s Afraid of Fatness in Fashion?

For Historian Amy Werbel, Past Is Prologue

Kyunghee Pyun’s Research on Dandyism Receives Recognition at Symposium

Theanne Schiros standing with students in classroom

January 23, 2023 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, School of Liberal Arts

CBS-TV’s Mission Unstoppable, which focuses on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and is shown on Saturday mornings and […]

President Brown presented the Public Safety Excellence Award to retiree Mohammed Ahmed, an officer for 31 years.

January 23, 2023 Linda Angrilli College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Top Stories

YourLocalSecurity.com named FIT the safest college in America for 2021 (the most recent year available), based on statistics for violent […]

Deborah Berhanu holds a sphere in front of a projector during a presentation

January 17, 2023 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, Innovation, School of Liberal Arts, Students

FIT, like the creative industries it serves, thrives on collaboration. One professor took that to an entirely new level with […]

A woman squats, modeling traditional Korean clothing in a red and white color scheme

January 16, 2023 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

History of Art Associate Professor Kyunghee Pyun delivered a talk about modern Korean fashion as part of a daylong symposium […]

January 4, 2023 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, FIT + Industry, School of Art & Design

C.J. Yeh, Creative Technology and Design, has been invited to join the 2023 SIGGRAPH Review Board. SIGGRAPH is the world’s […]

Yuniya Kawamura and a fan holding her book inside an auditorium.

January 4, 2023 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, professor of sociology, recently presented her work on Japanese fashion subcultures at a museum exhibition celebrating a […]

Ajoy Sarkar and Imran Islam in front of a presentation board

January 3, 2023 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, FIT + Industry, School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

Two Textile Development and Marketing faculty members presented work at conferences this fall—including one industry project conducted with students. At […]

cover of Fat Fashion book; Yuniya Kawamura; Paolo Volonte

November 9, 2022 Alex Joseph College & Campus, Diversity, Events, Faculty/Staff, FIT + Industry, Top Stories

Would you consider fashion to be size-inclusive in 2022? If you answered yes, Paolo Volonté, author of Fat Fashion: The […]

October 28, 2022 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, School of Liberal Arts

Those of us who aren’t historians might imagine that 19th-century efforts to impose morality on America have little to do […]

Kyunghee Pyun and poster for V&A's Fashion Masculinities exhibition

October 27, 2022 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

Professor Kyunghee Pyun’s research into hybrid dandyism across history is finding broad recognition in academia and museums around the world. […]

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