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Tag: Textile Development and Marketing
Dean’s Forum: Sustainable Labor Practices
The Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology will hold a Dean’s Forum to discuss strategies to improve […]
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Jeffrey Silberman Discusses Textile Development Abroad
Last fall, Jeffrey Silberman, chair, Textile Development and Marketing, moderated a panel on e-commerce at Egytex2018, a textile and apparel sourcing trade […]
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Tracking Cotton with DNA, from Dirt to Shirt
Sean Cormier ’92, associate professor of Textile Development and Marketing, studied the effect of harsh denim washes on cotton that […]
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Knitting for Civility
As part of their community service requirement, the FIT student chapter of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) […]
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The Floating Classroom: 15 Facts About the Ocean Plastics Crisis
Ocean plastics pollution has become a crisis, with some predicting that by 2050 there will be more plastic by weight in the world’s oceans than […]
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Sean Cormier Publishes Paper on DNA-Tagged Denim in Textile Research Journal
Sean Cormier, assistant chair, Textile Development and Marketing, published a paper in the September/October 2018 issue of AATCC Review (Vol. […]
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Ajoy Sarkar Quoted in Textile Research Journal
Ajoy Sarkar, Textile Development and Marketing, was quoted in an article titled “Natural Dyes: Return of the Classics” in the […]
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The MAGIC of FIT
FIT has made its presence in the sustainability arena known to a whole new audience by participating in February at […]
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Students Team with IBM and Tommy Hilfiger to Use AI
Fifteen FIT students from three majors—Textile Development and Marketing, International Trade and Marketing for the Fashion Industries, and Fashion Design—plus […]
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