Tag: innovation

  • A Conversation with Hue Magazine

    As part of our 75th anniversary celebration, the editors of HUE, the college magazine, asked me to reflect on FIT through a small group of questions. Some of them will appear in the next edition of the magazine. Here is a sneak preview of the entire interview. 1. What was your vision for the college…

  • FIT Team Wins, Again

    One of the great pleasures of my job is that I get a first-hand view of the always-inspiring and innovative work FIT faculty and students create here on a regular basis. But sometimes, even I am surprised and taken aback by the ingenious, cutting-edge projects our researchers undertake. And it is very gratifying to me…

  • FIT Grows a Pair of Baby Shoes

    If you had told me when I first arrived at FIT—almost 20 years ago—that during my tenure, FIT students will be creating their own color dyes from plants they grow on our terraces, developing knitting yarn from fungi, and “growing” baby shoes from plant materials, I would certainly have accused you of indulging in too…

  • FIT Students Take First in Biodesign Challenge

    I find FIT endlessly gratifying—a constant source of pride and delight. Who would expect that this college, with its celebrated focus on art and design and business, would take first prize in a design competition with a focus on science? Yet that is just what happened when, in June, at a presentation at the Museum of…

  • FIT Students Present Three Proposals at Clinton Global Initiative University

    The blossoming relationship between FIT and the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), I am happy to report, continues to flourish. A year ago, I posted about a pair of FIT students—Lydia Baird and Willa Tsokanis—who presented their plans for an innovative muslin-composting project at the 2015 CGI U in Miami. Their project is now fully functioning and…