Design and Merchandising Research and Scholarship

Explore our faculty research laboratories where you’ll find opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students to engage in research and creative scholarship.

Our faculty are engaged in research and creative scholarship in the area of product development, apparel design, historic textiles, interior environments, design thinking, and many more.

Our graduate students’ research topics cover a wide array of scholarly interests. We have curated a number of our graduates’ theses demonstrating the breadth of our research capacity.

The College offers dedicated pre- and post-award research funding and proposal support. Our goal is to submit quality proposals supporting faculty through the stages of the grant funding lifecycle.