Awards – FIT Newsroom

Tanya Melendez-Escalante stands in front of the Museum at FIT entrance; Natalie Nudell stands on Seventh Avenue near the Garment District

Tanya Meléndez-Escalante and Natalie Nudell Win Vilcek Prizes

February 9, 2026 Laura Hatmaker Alumni, College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, Museum, School of Liberal Arts

Since its inception in 2006, the Vilcek Foundation has awarded more than $9.6 million to support the achievements of immigrants […]

Hue Magazine’s Notebooks Issue Wins Major Awards

July 9, 2025 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Hue Magazine, Top Stories

The Summer 2024 “Notebooks Issue” of Hue magazine has won a Circle of Excellence Award from the Council for Advancement […]

Elena Romero on the set of Hip Hop Subway with guests

Elena Romero Wins Two Telly Awards

June 23, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology

Elena Romero, assistant chair and assistant professor, Marketing Communications, is a two-time winner of the 46th Annual Telly Awards. Her […]

newly designed Vibrant Health logos and typefaces

Yeh and Shin Win Muse Creative Awards for Rebranding Project

June 23, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design

C.J. Yeh and Christie Shin, both professors of Creative Technology and Design, led a Vibrant Health rebranding project that was […]

FIT Advertising and Digital Design Ranks No. 2 in the U.S.

June 20, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, School of Art & Design, Students, Top Stories

This year, FIT’s Advertising and Digital Design students won 10 Young Ones Student Awards from The One Club for Creativity, […]

Sketch of costumes for the Broadway musical Chicago.

Tony Winner, Broadway Costume Legend, FIT Alum

June 9, 2025 Alex Joseph Alumni, College & Campus, Featured, School of Art & Design

It’s hard to imagine Broadway musical history without legendary costume designer and FIT alum Patricia Zipprodt (1925–99). She received 11 […]

Hilary Davidson Wins Award From Costume Society of America

May 2, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Graduate Studies

Hilary Davidson, associate chair of the Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice program in the School of Graduate Studies, […]

Alexander Nagel; Nagel accepting award from Iranian officials

Nagel Nabs Iran’s World Book Award for Studies on Ancient Pigments

March 10, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Alexander Nagel, chair, Art History and […]

Amy Lemmon Receives Grant for Travel and Research

February 18, 2025 Kim Masibay Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

In January, Professor Amy Lemmon, a poet and the acting assistant chair of English and Communication Studies, received a 2025 […]

Chloe M. Martin Selected to Attend Scholarly Retreat

November 22, 2024 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Diversity, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Assistant Professor Chloe M. Martin, Social Sciences–Psychology, was recently selected to participate in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology […]