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FIT Welcomes 23 New Full-Time Faculty Members at Fall 2025 Convocation

August 18, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, School of Art & Design, School of Business & Technology, School of Graduate Studies, School of Liberal Arts

For fall 2025, FIT welcomed 23 new classroom and non-classroom faculty members. Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs Yasemin Jones […]

Nichol-Peters Named Chair of the Council of the Forum on Education Abroad

August 6, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff

Dr. Vanessa Nichol-Peters, appointed FIT’s dean for International Education in early June 2025, has been elected to serve as the […]

Model wearing patchwork topcoat and brown fedora-style hat.

‘Sourcing Journal’ Spotlights FIT Materials Scientist’s Biotextile

August 4, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design, School of Liberal Arts

Associate Professor of Science and Math Theanne Schiros’ bioleather is finding broader recognition. Recently, Sourcing Journal’s 2025 Material Innovations Report […]

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 […]

Hilary Davidson and the Jane Austen pelisse she reconstructed on a dress form

Hilary Davidson’s Jane Austen Expertise on Full Display

July 9, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, FIT in the News, School of Graduate Studies

A silk pelisse coat created by Associate Professor Hilary Davidson, chair of FIT’s Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum […]

Paul Clement and cover of Latin American Perspectives journal

Paul Clement Publishes Article on Grenada’s Revolution

June 23, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Paul C. Clement, PhD, professor of Economics and president-elect of the UCE of FIT, has published a new peer-reviewed study […]

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 […]

This triptych includes, at left, a reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Courtesane," which features a Japanese woman wearing a bright multicolor kimono, centered in a mustard yellow rectangle, which is framed by renderings of bamboo, waterlilies, and egrets. The center image of the triptych is a photo of a 1913 kimono-inspired satin, silk, and chiffon evening dress that is black, white, and pink, and is embellished with glass beading. The image at right is a reproduction of the 1843 painting "Tanabata No Take" by Yoshitama Utagawa. It shows a woman in classic geisha dress: black hair in an updo and she wears and flowing patterned kimono.

Yuni Kawamura Presents at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg

May 19, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Professor Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, Sociology, was an invited guest speaker at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida […]

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, […]