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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 All Stories, 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 All Stories, Featured, Innovation, Students

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

Linen, Without the Wrinkles

January 11, 2022 Irina Ivanova All Stories, 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 […]

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

August 30, 2021 Alexandra Mann All Stories, 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 […]

Chart with scanning electron microscope images of cotton

Inside FIT’s Four National Science Foundation–Funded Projects

July 22, 2021 Jonathan Vatner All Stories, 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 […]

earthy-looking materials on a gray placemat

NEA Grant Funds Sustainability STEAM Education

April 12, 2021 Jonathan Vatner All Stories, Faculty/Staff, Innovation, Sustainability, Top Stories

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded FIT a $25,000 grant titled “Unconventional Innovation: New Design for a […]

work by 7 recent graduates of FIT's Fashion Design MFA program

FIT’s First Online Interactive Fashion Event Launches April 6 with Made-to-Order Shopping

April 5, 2021 Alexandra Mann All Stories, Alumni, Innovation, School of Graduate Studies, Top Stories

An inaugural pilot program—powered by Bambuser—launched April 6 and features an online interactive fashion event with made-to-order shopping from debut […]