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FIT’s First Student NFT Contest

June 7, 2023 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, FIT + Industry, Innovation, School of Business & Technology, Students, Top Stories

Fabriq Labs, a startup that empowers creatives to use Web3 technologies to improve society, sponsored an NFT contest through FIT’s […]

One male student in front of an academic poster

Textile Development and Marketing Students Present Their Research

May 1, 2023 Jonathan Vatner Innovation, School of Business & Technology, Students, Top Stories

On April 14, a record 27 students in the Textile Development and Marketing (TDM) program presented research projects at the […]

Applications Now Open for 2023 PETE Prize for Entrepreneurs

February 21, 2023 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Innovation, Students, Top Stories

The PETE Prize for Entrepreneurs, a student award that recognizes excellence in the development of fresh and creative ideas that […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]