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Ten Stony Brook University faculty members were appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor — a prestigious honor bestowed upon professionals of the highest caliber — by the State University of New York (SUNY) Board of Trustees for 2021-2022. Click here to read the original article. 

On April 13, SUNY Korea students had a wonderful time on campus, celebrating the Easter Event hosted by Student Affairs. Students participated in fun activities such as picking up eggs throughout the campus, painting their own eggs, and photo time with the bunny!     

SUNY Korea TS student Sunghwan Kim won the first prize for the “Library Learning Spaces Naming Contest” hosted by IGCF. Sunghwan’s idea “GloFore” was selected as the name of the reading room located on the first floor of IGC Library. If you are looking for areas to read or study, please visit IGC Library in May!       Relevant article: click here 

While some students spent their spring break on the beach decompressing from the pressures of the academic year, Stony Brook University sophomore Thomas Brinkley spent his helping Ukrainian refugees in Romania. And he wouldn’t have had it any other way. Click here to read the original article 

On April 6th, four currently enrolled SUNY Korea students shared their internship experiences at major corporations in Korea. The companies introduced by the students include JoongAng Daily, Livable, 4STEC, Zero Class Lab, SingLab and Mulawear. Students who participated in this event gave positive comments such as: through this event students learned “how one can emphasize their ability when they do not have previous work experience”, “the importance of seeking out opportunities” and “having the right mindset and attitude”. 

The prestigious Student Scholarship Competition from the Society of Illustrators provides a launchpad into industry for talented graduates. This year, a jury of eminent artists selected 300 of the best undergraduate illustrations out of 8,700 entries to display in a special exhibition; about 25 of those students won scholarships. An unprecedented eight artworks from five FIT students were selected for the exhibition, and four of those students won scholarships. Click here to read the original article. 

Spring 2022 Alumni Panel Event was held on Saturday, April 2 for SUNY Korea students. The event was hosted by SUNY Korea CDC. Four of SUNY Korea’s successful SBU& FIT graduate professionals, working in the fields of accounting, soft engineering, fashion marketing, and consulting shared their career journeys and tips for job preparation. SUNY Korea students were also given the chance to ask questions to the graduates in the Zoom break out rooms. One of the students that participated in the event gave the feedback as follows “It was a really meaningful time that we could ask questions that I have been wondering about but had nowhere to ask casually. All speakers answered sincerely and gave me insights such as the importance of internship experience, license, and communication with professors. Also, I was touched by the confident attitudes from the speakers while they were delivering their presentation.” 

Dresses made by students as AAS degree graduation works at SUNY Korea FIT won prizes for the Macy’s Flower Show in NYC. A signal that spring has arrived in NYC, the annual Macy’s Flower Show is on now at the Macy’s Herald Square flagship in NYC until April 10. The beautiful works of fashion design students are displayed in Macy’s windows, and the works include the dresses designed by SUNY Korea FIT graduates (Jiwon Park and Yoojin Lee).   To read more, check out the articles in the links below.  Click here Click here

In conjunction with the Macy’s Flower Show, five Fashion Design BFA students have their works on display at the retailer’s flagship store in Herald Square through April 10 for a fourth consecutive year. Jacob Caraccilo, Katty Liang Feng, Larglinda Ilazi, Yoojin Lee, and the grand prize winner Jiown Park were challenged to design a garment that reflects the bold and stylish spirit of this year’s flower show. The annual event at Macy’s is described as an “ode to springtime” featuring thousands of stunning flowers.  Click here to read the original article. 

Fashion Institute of Technology, New York recently ranked as the number 1 and number 2 fashion school in different categories.    “Fashion, business, design, marketing, and technology are all represented at this school” (Scholarships Hall)   “The innovative curriculum has been developed with business leaders to prepare students for real-life work, ensuring that they’re ready to jump into a full- time position as soon as they graduate” (Careeraddict)     References)   FIT Ranking No. 1 in 2022   Scholarships Hall Careeraddict    FIT Ranking No. 2 in 2022   CEOworld Magazine

Stony Brook University’s Student Affairs has been honorably mentioned as one of 2022’s Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs according to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, a publication focusing on news and issues of diversity, equity and inclusion in American higher education. Click here to read the original article. 

Attention all FIT Applicants! The Final Deadline for FIT Applications for Fall 2022 is fastly approaching!   Your applications and documents are due SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2022, 11:59 PM (KST).   Visit the link below and submit your application now!     2022년 가을학기 FIT 지원마감일이 다가오고 있습니다!   지원서와 모든 제출서류들은 2022년 4월 30일 토요일 23:59시까지 제출하셔야합니다.    아래의 링크를 통해 지금 지원하세요.   Applications/지원서: https://apply.sunykorea.ac.kr/apply/      Inquiry/문의: 032-626-1030 | admission@sunykorea.ac.kr | SUNY Korea Admission (Kakao ID)

Dear SUNY Korea Students,   SUNY Korea’s COVID -19 Taskforce met on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, to review our current status. Following a comprehensive review, the committee has decided to end the two weeks of temporary online classes and return to the original mode of instructions, starting Monday, April 4.  Please make the necessary plans to return to in-person classes as before. Furthermore, the committee has decided that larger classes that were being taught online will continue to be online. However, they can have in-person exams. Instructors of those classes will inform you if any exams will be in person and will provide the necessary information to you promptly.   These decisions are based on our contingency plan since our reported infection rate is well below 5%. Also, as before these decisions are in full compliance with government regulations. Our main goal is to enhance your educational experience with paramount concern for your health and safety. All of the class management rules and policies remain as before. Please review them here again  http://www.sunykorea.ac.kr/sk/announcement   As before you are required to report any infections to your instructors immediately with proof of a positive test (RAT or PCR) taken at a medical facility. This is required in order to be excused from in-person classes for seven days of the quarantine period, which begins on the positive test date. During this period your instructors will accommodate you by providing all of the necessary information and resources to you.   Managing COVID 19 requires the cooperation of all of the SUNY Korea family. We believe that with precautions that we have in place attending in-person classes will not cause additional risk of infection, yet substantially enhances your educational experience. However, we ask you to follow our regulations and be vigilant both on-campus and off-campus to protect your health and that of your community. With the continued lowering of COVID -19 restrictions by the government, it is particularly important to be cautious during off-campus activities since they are much less regulated.    Thank you for your full cooperation and please send any questions or comments to  covid19report@sunykorea.ac.kr   Regards Hamid Hefazi, Ph.D., Provost and VP for Academic Affairs

March 24, 2022 An Exhibition and Experience Design MA alumna was part of a team that won a People’s Choice Award for designing the Peru Pavilion at World Expo 2020. The pavilion exterior is covered with a representation of a colorful fabric featuring striped patterns and icons to emphasize 3,000 years of textile traditions in Peruvian culture. Visitors cross a recreation of the famous Q’eswachaka bridge, made of grass woven into ropes. Every year, the local population remakes the bridge just as the Incas did hundreds of years ago. The Peru Pavilion won out over 190 other entries. Diana Estabridis ’12 worked as an exhibition design specialist on the project.  Estabridis, who lives in Lima, is proud that the installation hosted more than 1.4 million visitors. “We cannot compete with developed countries that have three to five times the budget Peru has,” she said. “We cannot compete with the technology that other countries produce. But we can try to send a different message, to reflect and make people wonder about simple things that are very often overlooked.” World expos, or world’s fairs, are large international exhibitions that showcase the achievements of nations. Expo 2020, delayed by COVID-19, opened in fall 2021 and closes at the end of March. The Commission for the Promotion of Peruvian Exports and Tourism (PROMPERÚ) executed the project, in part to attract investors. Estabridis was in charge of analyzing, evaluating, and monitoring the exhibition design process. She worked with the contractors to help them understand the story PROMPERÚ wanted to convey—and help the construction team understand Peruvian culture. Exhibitor magazine, a monthly publication featuring best practices in trade show marketing, organized the award, which expo visitors voted for online. Click here to read the original article 

March 10, 2022 Calendar Girl, the documentary about Ruth Finley, who created the legendary Fashion Calendar in the 1940s and organized the publication for seven decades, is now available via video on demand services such as Apple TV. Finley (1920-2018) donated her papers, which documented the development of the calendar—a schedule and clearinghouse of information about American fashion—to FIT’s Special Collections and College Archives in the Gladys Marcus Library. She received the President’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016. The film was produced and written by Natalie Nudell, adjunct assistant professor, History of Art, who started working on the film in 2015. “This project was a seven-year labor of love,” Nudell told Vogue. Click here to read the original article