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2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Creative Design: Undergraduate


Bury Me

Krissi Riewe Stevenson and Rachel Stauffer

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Streetbound

Ella Marie Renshaw and Colleen A Moretz

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Inno Moto

Gavin Fragale and Angela Uriyo

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Dancing Petals

Sierra Bailes and Angela Uriyo

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Coffee-Stained Music Sheets

Georgi Abdalla and Angela Uriyo

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Refashioned in Bloom

Margaret Lily Watkins and Fatma Baytar

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Culture


sust`AINAble Fashion:  Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) Fashion Designers Sustainablity Efforts

Andrew Reilly, Jordan Antonio and Young Jin Bahng

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Bangladeshi Cultural Heritage and Sustainability: Upcycling the Bararasi Saree

Sadia Tarannum and Alexandra L. Howell Abolo

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

From Persona to Purchase: Deion Sanders and the Power of Personal Branding in Driving Retail Sales

Eulanda A. Sanders

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Taking Up Space in Style: Chef Coats as Sites of Gender Negotiation and Feminist Resistance in Culinary Environments

Andra Chisholm and Eulanda A. Sanders

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

The Influence of Jim Crow on Black Women's Luxury Fashion Shopping Experiences: A Position Paper and Call to Action

Nia Allen and Eulanda A. Sanders

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Empowerment or Exploitation? Exploring the Dual Impact of Racial Capitalism on Black Women in Fashion Entrepreneurship

Uvana Doran and Nancy J. Hodges

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Non-African Perceptions of Traditional African Fashion

Elsie Rebecca Osei and Megan Strickfaden

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Retro-Acculturation and Identity Expression of Later Generations of Mexican Americans

Danielle Adriana Rodriguez and Yoo-Kyoung Seock

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Analyzing Dress, Identity, and Beauty Beliefs and Practices of East and Southeast Asian Mothers and Daughters Shared Through Matrilineal Inheritance

Cydni Meredith Robertson and Caroline Kopot

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Strategies for Inclusive Outdoor Recreation and Adaptive Apparel for People with Paralysis: Exploring Identity, Belonging, and Appearance Management

Kristen Deanne Morris, Kayna Hobbs-Murphy, Kerri McBee-Black and Lida Aflatoony

2026-01-17 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Curatorial Exhibition Scholarship


Harlem Noire: Fashion Movement, Moment & Memory

Dyese Matthews, Catherine Kueffer Blumenkamp and Denise Nicole Green

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Tiger's Leap: Fashion Past, Present, Future

Paula Alaszkiewicz

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

The Making of Barkcloth – Place, Gender, and Trans-Local Community

Iris Yiqun Luo, Catherine Kueffer Blumenkamp, Renata M. Leitão and Denise Nicole Green

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Sounding Fashion

Shawkay Ottmann, Apurva Pandey, Zeyu Liu and Denise Nicole Green

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Design and Product Development


Beyond the Sketch: Exploring Emerging Practices of Generative AI Use in Fashion Design

Yuan Li, Xiao Tong, Brian Taylor, Jin Su and Melanie Carrico

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

1920s Fashion: History and Design

Belinda T. Orzada

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Modular KnitToile: Leveraging Technology to Elevate Creativity in Knitwear Design

Casey Tyler and Adriana Gorea

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Integrating AI Image Generation in an Introductory Design Course

Colleen G Pokorny, Bolanle Dahunsi, Adam Vester and Marianne Dickson

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Adaptive Apparel Needs: Expanding the Functional, Expressive and Aesthetic Model

Melanie Carrico, Jin Su, Md. Hasan Sheikh, Xiao Tong, Brian Taylor and Hadal Hammour

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Better CrossFit Apparel for Women: Employing the FEA Model to Meet Performance, Psychological Empowerment, Identity Expression, and Aesthetic Needs  

Lutong Chen and Ann Marie Marie Fiore

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Developing a Zero-Waste Pattern for Healthcare Scrubs: A Case Study

Ashley Rougeaux-Burnes, Colleen A Moretz, Sheri Dragoo, Melanie Carrico, Ellen McKinney and Casey R. Stannard

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Evaluating Pocket Needs of Healthcare Professionals for Application in a Scrub Design

Colleen A Moretz, Ashley Rougeaux-Burnes, Melanie Carrico, Ellen McKinney, Sheri Dragoo and Casey R. Stannard

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Content Analysis of Online Reviews to Understand the Functional, Expressive, and Aesthetic Needs of Period Underwear for Women with Disabilites

Lauren E Lansdell and Jia Wu

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Apparel Therapy for Performance of Menstrual Hygiene Management: Developing Functional Period Underwear for Women with Physical Disabilities

Jia Wu, Lauren E Lansdell and Kerri McBee-Black

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Inclusive Sportswear Design: A User-Centered Approach to Enhance Taekwondo Uniforms for Hijabi Athletes

Joud Asil, Wijdan A. Tawfiq and Rania Debes

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

“It Felt Like a Hug”: The Wear Testing of a Weighted Champion Hoodie to AssessComfortability, Fit, and Mobility

Kerri McBee-Black and Jia Wu

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Feasibility of Industrial Production using the Carrico Zero-Waste Banded Grading Technique

Casey R. Stannard, Sheri Dragoo, Ellen McKinney, Melanie Carrico, Ashley Rougeaux-Burnes and Colleen A Moretz

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Designing Apparel for Post Caesarean Recovery Emphasizing Comfort and Wellbeing

Eman Alahmadi, Wijdan A. Tawfiq and Rania Debes

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Developing Adaptive Apparel for Autistic Children Grounded in the Perspectives of Caregivers

Omniah Almorshed, Rania Debes and Wijdan A. Tawfiq

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Sustainable Smart Adaptive Health-Sync Apparel for Diabetics with Mobility Disability

SM Rakifull Alam, FARHANA MOMOTAZ and Juyoung Lee

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Culturally Responsive Maternity Apparel for Saudi Mothers: A User-Centered Design Approach

Rehab Reda, Wijdan A. Tawfiq and Rania Debes

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

A Wearable Smart Healthcare System for Wheelchair Users: Functional Clothing with Embedded Temperature Sensors and Heating Elements

Shiyu Chen, Miao Yu and Chuanlan Chuanlan Liu

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Collecting Quantitative Wear Test Data to Analyze the Lasting Effects Experienced by People with Disabilities Wearing Adaptive Apparel

Chukwuma Nweje Udezeh

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

From Classroom to Commercialization: A Conceptual Framework for Wearable Soft-good Product Innovation

Bahar Hashemian Esfahani and Rachel Jean Eike

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Grading Runners: A Pilot Study to Reverse Engineer Patterns to Understand the Sizing of a Population 

Susan L Sokolowski, Jacob Searcy, Anish Dulal, Chris Stone and KJ Fightmaster

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Developing a Novel PPE Turnout Coat with an Embedded Active Cooling System and Evaluating Firefighters’ Performance Satisfaction

Myoungok Kim, Ashley Kubley, Ione Wu, Chris Cooley, Qichen Fang, Prakash Giri, Mark Schulz and Vesselin Shanov

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Design and Evaluation of a Novel Hamstring Compression Sleeve for Female NCAA Athletes: An Exploratory Study

Adriana Gorea and Sarah Megivern

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Ice Hockey Elbow Pad Design Tailored for Female Athletes

Huieun Do and Huiju Park

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Bridging the Gap: Developing Custom Dress Forms for Wheelchair Users

Pimpawan Kumphai, Kaleigh Mae Slot, Lauren Agnew, Ian R. Mull, JoDell Heroux and Nigar Sultana

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Synergizing Wearable Technology and Augmented Reality for Astronaut Optimization; A Diverse Team Approach

Sheri Dragoo, Advika Govindarajan, Caleb Strout, Collin Strout, Ishaan Patel, Maya Piotrowicz, Patrick Lasiter and Isaac Gonzalez

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Gender-Specific Fit Challenges in Firefighter Turnout Gear: A Proportional Analysis

Kim Phung Nguyen and Huiju Park

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Using Precedent Analysis, Interviews, Archetypes, and Design Sprints to Inform Designing

Kanishka Kumar, Millie Yates, Sandra Tullio Pow and Cesar Marquez-Chin

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

Towards Redesigning Swimsuits for Paralympic Swimmers with Limb Deficiency

Irma D Villanueva and Helen Xiomara Trejo

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future

A Conceptual Model of Organizational Culture for Successful Digital Product Development

Phillip Sidberry, Jia Wu and Veena Chattaraman

2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future