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The IGC Library recently created a Hall of Fame for the notable book donors from the IGC community. The Hall of Fame recognizes people who have donated books to the IGC Library. Two donors from the SUNY Korea community has their appreciation plaques displayed: Honorary President Dr. Myung Oh and Technology & Society Professor James Larson. “I personally dream about making Dr Myung Oh’s donation, some of my donations, and the IGC Library into an Incheon Global Campus Policy Museum,” said Professor James Larson. Professor Larson has published a number of books during his career and has co-authored with Dr. Myung Oh Digital Development in Korea: Building an Information Society, published in 2011. To watch his interview, click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a1uXIUaHRI            

  Daniel Canals, PhD, a research assistant professor at the Stony Brook Cancer Center, has received a grant from the Long Island League to Abolish Cancer (LILAC) for the purchase of two cutting-edge instruments that enable him and colleagues to better understand how lipids are regulated in cancer, and in turn, the many functions that lipids perform in cancer cells. The instruments — the Scilogex Spectrophotometer and Benchmark Scientific BV1010, BenchMixer (Vortexer) — work together to measure ceramide molecules on the plasma membranes of both normal cells and cancerous cells, allowing researchers to gain a deeper insight into the mechanisms of cancer by comparing the normal cells to the cancerous ones. Click here to read the original article.

In the early decades of the 20th century, FIT founder and president Max Meyer (1876–1953), then a buyer for a major New York City cloak and suit manufacturer, commissioned thousands of drawings of French couture designs to be licensed for production in the U.S.. A new show in FIT’s Art and Design Gallery, Unconventional Then, Now, & Always: A Helix of FIT Influence from Max Meyer to Daria Dorosh, juxtaposes some of these watercolor and ink images from houses such as Chanel, Poiret, and Lanvin with comparable examples of actual garments from the study collection of FIT’s graduate program in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice.  Click here to read the original article.  

Elena Romero, assistant chair, Marketing Communications, has received her first New York Emmy nomination for Best Public Affairs Program (Series) as part of the LATiNAS team at CUNY TV. The monthly magazine-style news show showcases Latinas from all walks of life. She’s been a  correspondent and producer with the show since its inception in 2019. Romero also recently won her third Telly—a Silver Award, the organization’s highest achievement—for “LATiNAS: Best of Season 3″ in the Television: Diversity and Inclusion category. She’s won in previous years for her work on LATiNAS for a profile of a Latinx Muslim family in season one and for an entire season of on-air reporting done during the pandemic. Click here to read the original article.

  Fashion Design student Tessa Kent ’23 got over 550,000 hits for an augmented reality filter she created on Snapchat. The filter allows Snapchat users to “wear” two garments from her thesis collection, “Sentimental Fool,” which is embroidered with quotes from her great-great-grandmother’s memoir. Check out this one-minute video below or on FIT’s Vimeo channel to see how she did it. Click here to read the original article.

  As new platforms and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) become available, businesses must adapt to both harness their powerful capabilities and keep pace with competitors. From marketing to sales to customer experience, business users can leverage highly personalized messaging when communicating with both existing and potential customers. But it’s not without its concerns — increased misinformation campaigns, inaccurate data, biases, and cybersecurity risks have forced the business community to give AI a second, harder look. "AI for Business Optimization,” a virtual panel discussion hosted by the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) at Stony Brook University, had a diverse group of experts survey the accelerating AI landscape. Christine Gilbert, assistant professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (SoMAS), the School of Communication and Journalism and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, moderated the discussion. Click here to read the original article.

Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) has been recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the 90 exceptional institutions nationwide included on the 2023 “Great Hospitals in America” list. Becker’s celebrates U.S. hospitals recognized for their commitment to clinical excellence, patient safety, innovation, research and education, and patient satisfaction. SBUH is the only hospital in Suffolk County featured and one of only two on Long Island to make the list. Click here to read the original article.

  T. Simeon Ananou has been named Stony Brook University’s Vice President for the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) and Chief Information Officer (CIO), effective August 14, 2023. The announcement was made July 7 by Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Jed Shivers. Ananou emerged from a highly competitive pool of candidates after an extensive national search. "With over 20 years of IT leadership at several higher education institutions, Dr. Ananou has remained passionate throughout his career about the role that Information Technology has in transforming education, research and learning for students,” Shiver said. “He has also served as an advocate and champion for building IT teams and environments that are responsive, efficient, and focused on customer service to support the changing needs of faculty, staff and students, University-wide.” Click here to read the original article.

  Beginning this fall, the Stony Brook School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) will offer a new academic program: a bachelor of arts in communication. The program will offer undergraduate students a chance to explore and understand how communication shapes culture and community, with a particular emphasis on how communication impacts systemic inequalities, discrimination and injustice. Click here to read the original article.

  SUNY Korea Research and Business Foundation (R&BF) made a Memorandum of Understanding agreement with Seoul Fashion Hub Bae Um Tteul (배움뜰) on Wednesday, July 5th, 2023. The areas of cooperation include 1.) Comprehensive cooperative activities for education support.  2.) Network establishment and experience sharing for employment support. 3.) Joint marketing cooperation for the development and revitalization of local communities. Both parties will cooperate with each other to promote the development of both organizations for collaboration in vitalizing education services and employment support through information exchange, such as new knowledge and technology related to fashion.   

  Fashion Design MFA students, in consultation with world-renowned designer Bart Hess, designed a garment that will be part of his Unwearable Collection, a collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. The collection interprets the devastating impact and unpredictability of a rare skin disease, generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP), through fashion. The new piece brings to life one of the most common experiences of people with GPP: the emotional uncertainty of how it will impact their life each day, and how others will perceive them. GPP is a potentially life-threatening disease characterized by widespread eruptions of painful pustules across the body. Patients say the pain is equivalent to “10,000 papercuts.” Flares can greatly affect a person’s quality of life both physically and emotionally, and in severe cases, lead to complications including heart failure, renal failure, sepsis, and death. Click here to read the original article.

  15 students from the Fashion Institute of Technology Fashion Design Department travelled to Tokyo, Japan for a field trip to get a hands-on global experience of the fashion industry. Mark-Evan Blackman, Chair of the Fashion Design Department, led the 15 students, in their 2nd or 4th semester in the Fashion Design major, on this international field trip from Tuesday, June 20 to Friday, June 23. Prior to this trip, the students were required to conduct a professional analysis of the Seoul Fashion Market to provide them with meaningful insight before traveling to Tokyo. This analysis helped the students to compare and contrast the differences between the Korean and Japanese fashion markets when visiting the 15 assigned retail units. During this three night and four-day trip, the students also visited 2 museums and 2 galleries, and met up with the Japanese apparel Design Director. This wonderful opportunity to communicate with the designer allowed the students to understand how designers articulate their intelligence into their design. While visiting all the assigned retail units, museums, and galleries, the students were able to review and analyze the clothing assortments and displays, as well as study the unique designs of the garments.                    

  A research article by Mechanical Engineering Department Professor Yang and postdoctoral researcher Park, along with several co-workers – “Structural Color Generation on Transparent and Flexible Substrates by Nanosecond Laser Induced Periodic Surface Structures” – was selected as the cover picture of the journal Advanced Materials Technologies, published on May 24, 2023. Being selected as the cover picture of a journal article has the significance of being regarded as a representative feature of the journal and promotes advertisement through various media to attract the public. Professors Yang and Park’s research is about: “Laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS) fabricated by a nanosecond pulse laser patterning on metal-organic thin films. The photothermal effects, such as thermocapillary flow inducing the material reorganization, are mainly responsible for the controlled LIPSS formation. The LIPSS patterns exhibit iridescent structural coloration while illuminated with white light, distinguishing the color spectrum from red to blue.   After that, the LIPSS patterned substrates serve as a mold, and the nanostructures are successfully transferrable to the poly dimethyl siloxane (PDMS), showing the mirror symmetry iridescent structural coloration. These results reveal that the solution-based LIPSS pattern formation from metal-organic thin film-coated substrates can effectively be extended for various optical applications and micro/nanostructure transferring tools for flexible/stretchable electronics.” Arthanari, S., Park, J.-E., Bose, S., Kang, H.W., Kim, S., Yang, M., Lee, H. and Hwang, J.S. (2023), Structural Color Generation on Transparent and Flexible Substrates by Nanosecond Laser Induced Periodic Surface Structures (Adv. Mater. Technol. 10/2023). Adv. Mater. Technol., 8: 2370044. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202370044 Professor Min Yang Yang is a leading professor in SUNY Korea. Yang received his BS and MS from Seoul National University and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research areas are nanobiotechnology, sensor fabrication, and precision engineering. Professor Jong Eun Park received his BS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from KAIST. Park has served as the postdoctoral researcher in Mechanical Engineering at SUNY Korea since March 2021, and also the adjunct professor since September 2022. His research interests are laser material processing and spectral sensing.        

  Practice Greenhealth has once again recognized Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) as a national leader in environmental sustainability. As a result of SBUH’s leadership, ingenuity and hard work through its sustainability efforts and initiatives, the hospital has earned this year’s Greenhealth Emerald Award. This award recognizes the hospital, as part of the top 20 percent, for its ongoing commitment to improving its environmental performance and efforts to build sustainability and resiliency into the operations and culture of the institution. Click here to read the original article.

Fashion exhibitions have become an increasingly popular mainstay at museums—nearly 1.7 million people visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2018 show Heavenly Bodies, for example, making it the most-visited exhibition in the museum’s history. At the same time, major fashion brands such as Prada and LVMH have started foundations for displaying art. The work of Andy Warhol in particular prefigured many of these developments, says Natasha Degen, professor and chair of FIT’s Art Market Studies MA program. Her new book, Merchants of Style: Art and Fashion After Warhol, examines the convergence of art and fashion, and teases out some of its troubling implications. She answered a few questions on the subject for FIT Chief Storyteller Alex Joseph. Click here to read the original article.