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8 Ways to Weave Sustainability Into Your Life at FIT

August 25, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Featured, Students, Sustainability

Sustainability is a core value at FIT. On campus and off, FIT students, staff, and faculty are working to make […]

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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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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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Seven Ways FIT Is Helping the Earth

October 1, 2020 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Featured, Sustainability

Sustainability Awareness Week, October 5 to 9, is a chance to take stock of past achievements in sustainability and plan […]

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Just Call Her JP

Fresh off One Battle After Another‘s Oscar win for Best Picture, we’re celebrating one of its standout stars: FIT Fashion Merchandising Management alumna Shayna McHayle, also known as Junglepussy, also known as JP. Check out our profile of the alum in FIT’s magazine, Hue.

SUSTAINABILITY SPOTLIGHT

Gwen Sanchirico leans over a drawer of colorful glass petri dishes Building a Biomaterials Reference Library, One Avocado Skin at a Time

From 60,000-year-old Neanderthal “super-glue” to WWII-era milk-spun fabric, humans have always found ways to forge useful materials from whatever is on hand. Today, in Room C806 of the Feldman Center, FIT researcher Gwen Sanchirico is carrying that spirit of innovation into the future.

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