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Category: Innovation

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

FIT-Barnard Collaboration Challenges Students to Make Art with Code

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 […]

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Alum Curates CFDA’s First Metaverse Fashion Show

December 16, 2022 Alex Joseph Alumni, Featured, Innovation

Starting December 19, enter the online game The Sandbox and you can see an exhibition of digital fashion, curated by […]

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Theanne Schiros and an illustration from Environmental Science Advances shows bio-leather dyed with various natural substances and two applications of the material.

Major Recognition for Theanne Schiros’s Bioleather Research

September 28, 2022 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Innovation, School of Liberal Arts, Sustainability, Top Stories

Theanne Schiros’s research into microbial leather is finding broad recognition in the academic and popular press. Schiros, associate professor of […]

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Professor in wetsuit holding underwater camera with ocean in background

Keith Ellenbogen Brings Underwater Photography to the New England Aquarium

July 28, 2022 Jonathan Vatner Faculty/Staff, Faculty/Staff Home, Innovation, School of Art & Design, Sustainability, Top Stories

Underwater photographer and Boston native Keith Ellenbogen’s exhibition, Space to Sea: A Photographic Journey into Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, […]

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Michael Posso and CJ Yeh

FIT Faculty Present at New York’s Digital Fashion Week

April 29, 2022 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, FIT + Industry, Innovation, School of Art & Design

FIT’s digital faculty made an appearance at New York’s Digital Fashion Week earlier this year. C.J. Yeh and Michael Posso, […]

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Gloved hands holding a green fiber

Werewool Wins Competition Seeking Solutions to Microplastics Pollution

April 18, 2022 Jonathan Vatner Alumni, Innovation, School of Liberal Arts, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

A biotech team formed at FIT has won the Conservation X Labs Microfiber Innovation Challenge, a competition seeking solutions to […]

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logo for the PETE Prize

FIT’s DTech Lab Launches the PETE Prize for Entrepreneurs

March 7, 2022 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Featured, Innovation, Students

On Tuesday, March 1, FIT’s DTech Lab launched the PETE Prize for Entrepreneurs, a student award that recognizes excellence in […]

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cover of Journal of Natural Fibers

Linen, Without the Wrinkles

January 11, 2022 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Innovation, School of Business & Technology, Sustainability

Linen has long bedeviled designers: The durable, renewable, and sustainable fabric is extremely prone to wrinkling, particularly in the humid […]

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MIT & FIT Playbook

The Future of Textiles Is Collaborative: MIT and FIT Develop Transdisciplinary Innovation Playbook

August 30, 2021 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, FIT + Industry, Innovation, Top Stories

How-to manual codifies successful textiles partnership between designers, engineers When MIT and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) joined forces […]

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Chart with scanning electron microscope images of cotton

Inside FIT’s Four National Science Foundation–Funded Projects

July 22, 2021 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, Innovation, Sustainability

FIT faculty and student research activity has never been more robust. Case in point: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has […]

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Sun 05

Exhibition: Chasing a Dying River: Ghat 24 Yamuna, Delhi, India — Opens

February 5
Wed 08

Exhibition: FIT Fabulous: A Modern Investigation of Hip Hop — Opens

February 8
Wed 08

Exhibition: Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop — Opens

February 8
Sun 12

Exhibition: Out of Body or Out of Place? — Closes

February 12
Mon 13

Diversity Collective Meet and Greet

February 13 at 10:00 am - 11:00 am

ON FITTIGERS.COM

Devin Rotunno and Andrea Distefano

Two Students Named SUNY Scholar-Athlete Award Winners

Congratulations to Andrea Distefano for being named the Fall SUNY Scholar Athlete Women’s Cross Country Award winner and to Devin Rotunno for being named the Fall SUNY Scholar Athlete Women’s Tennis Award winner during SUNY’s inaugural year of naming SUNY-wide Scholar Athletes. Full story at FIT’s sports website, FITTigers.com

HUE: THE AMERICAN STYLE ISSUE

cover of Hue magazine with white t-shirtAfter an intensive redesign, the new issue of Hue is here! FIT’s magazine has been completely reimagined, down to the bold logo—and this issue is our most ambitious yet. Visit hue.fitnyc.edu.

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