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Category: Sustainability

Ajoy Sarkar and Imran Islam in front of a presentation board

Textile Development and Marketing Faculty and Students Collaborate on Research

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 […]

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FIT’s Natural Dye Garden Is Flourishing

October 12, 2022 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Featured, Sustainability

FIT’s Natural Dye Garden, established in 2014 and located on the ninth floor rooftop of the Feldman Center, has long […]

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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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The Days storefront

A New Home for Sustainable Swimwear in Cape May

July 28, 2022 Jonathan Vatner Alumni, Featured, Sustainability, Top Stories

Follow the Garden State Parkway to Exit 0, and among the Victorian houses known as “painted ladies” that line the […]

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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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Bio-based sneakers

Bio-Sneakers Find an Audience in Switzerland

May 22, 2022 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design, School of Liberal Arts, Sustainability, Top Stories

A pair of fully biodegradable sneakers that two FIT faculty members worked on were featured in an exhibition on circularity […]

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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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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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Portrait of Amber Valletta

Amber Valletta Named FIT’s First Sustainability Ambassador

September 23, 2021 Corey Lacey College & Campus, Sustainability, Top Stories

FIT announced that model, actress, and activist Amber Valletta has been named the college’s first sustainability ambassador, further solidifying FIT’s […]

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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

THE MUSEUM AT FIT

two women standing in front of graffiti; photo by Jamel ShabazzFresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style Opens Feb. 8

The exhibition will feature over 100 garments and accessories as well as images by New York photographer Jamel Shabazz. More details

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