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Tag: Theanne Schiros

Theanne Schiros standing with students in classroom

Theanne Schiros Is on a ‘Mission Unstoppable’

January 23, 2023 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, School of Liberal Arts

CBS-TV’s Mission Unstoppable, which focuses on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and is shown on Saturday mornings and […]

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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 […]

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Bio-based sneakers

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 […]

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Gloved hands holding a green fiber

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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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 […]

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Online Exhibition: 6876 km — Opens

April 15, 2021 Laura Hatmaker

6876 km is the distance from the Garment District in Manhattan to The Association of Women Tie-Dyers in Modiya, Kindia. […]

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students planting on FIT's green roof

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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oyster shells and a mortar and pestle

Using Biodesign, Students Invent Sustainable Textiles

June 25, 2019 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Innovation, Sustainability, Top Stories

What if our world’s most pressing environmental crises could be solved by looking to nature? The Biodesign Challenge, now in […]

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Make Your Own Beeswax Wraps

September 27, 2017 Laura Hatmaker

Assistant Professor Theanne Schiros, Science and Math, will teach you the ancient practice of combining beeswax and cotton to create […]

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sample of knitted algae

AlgiKnit Wins a National Geographic Chasing Genius Award

September 18, 2017 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Students

National Geographic has awarded FIT’s Team AlgiKnit $25,000 to develop a groundbreaking, sustainable textile. A panel composed of a scientist, […]

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Exhibition: Elizabeth Hawes: Along Her Own Lines — Closes

March 26
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17th Annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference: Ideas at Work

March 28
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17th Annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference: Ideas at Work

March 29
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FIT Authors Talks: Chloe M. Martin

March 29 at 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

FROM THE SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN BLOG

Susan Adamo Baumbach in her office with toysToy Design’s Susan Adamo Baumbach on Whimsy, Twists, and Tech

While a die-hard enthusiast for some games of the past, the longtime faculty member and current acting Toy Design Department chair is constantly working on the next thing. Read more

HUE: THE MAGAZINE OF FIT

cover of Hue magazine featuring an illustration of a robot and manIn the spring 2023 issue of Hue, we take a deep dive into Web3 and digital technologies. Find it now at hue.fitnyc.edu.

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