Alumni News

Looking Like a Victim?

Looking Like a Victim?
Dr. Andy Reilly has co-authored a new publication, “Dress, Body, and Experiences of Victimization,” published in the journal Fashion, Style & Popular Culture. It elucidates perceived relationships between aspects of appearance and experiences of any form of victimization from the perspective of survivors. He and his co-author Kim Johnson addressed three research questions: (1) what connection, if any, did survivors draw between their appearance and their experience of victimization? (2) What changes, if any, did survivors make to their appearance after their experience(s)? And (3) what advice on appearance, if any, would survivors give to others as a result of their experience? Five women and three men completed interviews. Participants identified appearance cues as stimuli evoking others’ behaviors towards them, and both general appearance attributes and specific attributes were credited with eliciting negative behaviors. The authors discovered that experiences with victimization often occurred when the individual was attempting to move into a culture that was new to them and that most participants altered or made adjustments to their appearance as a result of their victimization experience.
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Passion for Fashion Innovation

Passion for Fashion Innovation
Dr. Shu Hwa Lin shared cutting-edge fashion technology with fashion design students in UH Maui College’s Fashion Technology program during the recent International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) Conference. 
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The Manoa Experience - University Preview Day

The Manoa Experience - University Preview Day
Saturday, March 3, 2018
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
UH Manoa campus

Visit manoa.hawaii.edu/admissions/experience

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Welcome-back Pizza Bash

Welcome-back Pizza Bash

FREE PIZZAS!

Our department is once again sponsoring a welcome-back Pizza Bash for all HDFS/FAMR and FDM students and faculty. We hope you can join us for FREE pizzas on:

Date: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Time: 11:30 am-12:00 noon
Place: Miller Hall 101

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