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FIT Wins 2016 Environmental Excellence Award
At FIT, sustainability is one of our core values and is central to our overall mission. So it was gratifying indeed to receive word that FIT has been awarded a 2016 Environmental Excellence Award by New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The DEC states that award winners are “an elite group of committed…
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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…
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Bee-Education Project Takes Flight
Bees will find a home on campus next year as part of our sustainability efforts. FIT Hives, a bee-education project developed by students Shona Neary, a Fine Arts major and Sarah Langenbach, a Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing major, will set up an actual bee hive here on campus next semester. “FIT has many of industry’s future creators,…
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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…
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Student Ideas Resonate at Clinton Global Initiative University
At every turn at FIT, I find a reason to be proud. It is approaching end of semester and our corridors and lobbies are starting to radiate with outstanding examples of student (and faculty!) work. In too many disciplines to name, our students are being selected for exceptional awards. Last week I posted about two…