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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 […]

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‘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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dillard Receives Patent for Invention

March 14, 2025 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Bernard Dillard, associate professor of Mathematics, invented and received a utility patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for […]

Alexander Nagel; Nagel accepting award from Iranian officials

Nagel Nabs Iran’s World Book Award for Studies on Ancient Pigments

March 10, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Alexander Nagel, chair, Art History and […]

Wilbekin Moderates a Harlem Renaissance Roundtable

February 21, 2025 Kim Masibay Diversity, Faculty/Staff, FIT in the News, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

In honor of the Harlem Renaissance centennial, Assistant Professor Emil Wilbekin, Marketing Communications, moderated a roundtable with four other Black […]