{"id":644,"date":"2016-05-12T14:11:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/?p=644"},"modified":"2016-05-12T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:11:35","slug":"bee-education-project-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/2016\/05\/12\/bee-education-project-takes-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee-Education Project Takes Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"honeybee\"Bees will find a home on campus next year as part of our sustainability efforts.<\/p>\n

FIT Hives, a bee-education project developed by students Shona Neary, a Fine Arts major and\u00a0Sarah Langenbach, a Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing major, will set up an actual \u00a0bee hive\u00a0here on campus next semester.<\/p>\n

\u201cFIT has many of industry’s future creators, so it is important to make the community at FIT\u00a0think about where they get their supplies and resources,\u201d Sarah said. The team\u2019s bee-education\u00a0message is that \u201ceverything is connected\u201d and the use natural products in cosmetics helps\u00a0\u201csustain a full-circle loop in our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shona and Sarah recently presented FIT Hives at the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU)\u00a0held this year at the University of California in Berkeley. Sarah described the meeting as \u201can\u00a0incredible experience,\u201d adding that \u201cCGIU facilitated idea sharing, provided skill-building\u00a0workshops, and hosted many compelling and\u00a0fascinating\u00a0speakers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sarah Langenbach and Sh\u014dna Neary at NYC’s Bee Village in Battery Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The project is first funded through our Innovation Grant program, launched in 2015 from FIT\u2019s\u00a0Office of Academic Affairs, with help from the Division of Enrollment Management and Student\u00a0Success and the FIT Student Association. The grants support collaborative projects that cross\u00a0academic disciplines and stretch intellectual and artistic boundaries.<\/p>\n

In addition to meeting those criteria, Sarah and Shona\u2019s project is timely. Apis mellifera\u00a0Linnaeus, commonly known as the honeybee, is under severe threat from \u201ccolony collapse\u00a0disorder.\u201d Scientists have put forth a range of theories for the cause of the disorder, ranging from\u00a0environmental factors to the use of new, potentially dangerous pesticides.<\/p>\n

You might be surprised to learn that, as though in response to the threat to bees, New York City\u00a0has become a \u201chive\u201d of urban beekeeping activity. As of 2014, more than 250 honeybee hives\u00a0had been registered with the city, according to The New York Times. So, Sarah and Shona have\u00a0ready bee resources here in the city as they decide on a campus location for the hive and work to\u00a0find an experienced bee keeper to care for the hive year-round.<\/p>\n

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Sourcing a possible location for a hive on one of FIT’s green roofs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The grant also supports a documentary focused on bees in the environment with an emphasis on\u00a0the fine arts and cosmetics industries. Max Hechtman and Shoshana Rabinowitz, students in our\u00a0Film and Media program, will assist in the creation of the documentary, which will be shown to\u00a0the campus community early in the 2016 fall semester.<\/p>\n

I am so pleased to see the creative and innovative approaches our students bring to all issues, and\u00a0I look forward to watching FIT Hives blossom here at home and out beyond the borders of FIT.<\/p>\n

\u00bb See more photos and learn more about the project at the FIT HIVES Facebook page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FITHIVES\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0Sarah Langenbach, a Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing major, will set up an actual \u00a0bee hive\u00a0here on campus next semester. \u201cFIT has many of industry’s future creators, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35538,32383],"tags":[16612,41224,30,8569],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-2","category-sustainability-2","tag-bees","tag-cgiu","tag-students","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ycDS-ao","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}