Sustainability – Page 3

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Preeti Arya Talks Sustainable and Performance Fabrics

May 12, 2021 Jonathan Vatner Faculty/Staff, Faculty/Staff Home, Sustainability

Dr. Preeti Arya, assistant professor of Textile Development and Marketing, has become a go-to source for journalists writing about performance […]