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Turning Waste Cooking Oil Into Soap? It’s Possible

March 27, 2023 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

Many a home cook has struggled with the question of what to do with used cooking oil—to say nothing of […]

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

August 30, 2021 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, 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 […]

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Textile Development and Marketing Faculty Members’ Book Reaches 11th Edition

February 16, 2016 Laura Hatmaker Faculty/Staff, FIT DIRECT, School of Business & Technology

The 11th edition of J.J. Pizzuto’s Fabric Science, and its companion J.J. Pizzuto’s Fabric Science Swatch Kit, co-authored by Ingrid Johnson and Ajoy Sarkar, has just been published by Fairchild […]

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Science and Mathematics Faculty Member Leads Seal Walks

January 13, 2015 FIT Newsroom Events, Faculty/Staff, FIT DIRECT

Saturdays and Sundays, Through April 26 Cupsogue Beach County Park, Westhampton Beach, NY Arthur Kopelman leads educational walks to observe, […]

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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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