Research Institute

The BGC's commitment to research extends to our students and alumni as well. We maintain and support several endowed fellowships designed to enable our students to pursue research connected to their theses and dissertations. For detailed application information click here.

We also support a student-planned and student-run graduate symposium that takes place every April. This year the the Graduate Student Symposium, "Material Networks | Networked Materials" will focus on the concept of "material network" as any interconnected system of people, objects, and ideas of exchange, the messages they convey, and their changing identities and associations across diverse temporalities, geographies and cultures. Titles of past symposia have been:

2010- Materials of Persuasion
2009- Failed Design: What Were They Thinking?
2008- Certified Authentic? Counterfeits, Copies, & Constructions of Culture
2007- At Home and Abroad: Geography of the Decorative Arts
2006- Passing Fancies: Fixing the Unfixed
2005- Skin Deep? Surfaces and Beyond
2004- Accumulative Effects: The Psychology, Aesthetic, and Display of Collections
2003- Designed Identities
2002- Modern Means

This year's symposium is scheduled for spring, 2010. Detailed information will soon be available.