Cindy Bertoia and LaJuana Gill, students in Brenau’s Master of Fine Arts in interior design program, presented a joint research project during the past academic year at regional Interior Design Educator’s Conference (IDEC) at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. The program, titled “Defining Meaningful Categories of the Body of Knowledge,” traces the expansion in knowledge that interior design has undergone since becoming a career path in the early 20th century.

IDEC is the leading association of interior design educators and researchers. Lynn M. Jones, associate dean of Fine Arts & Humanities and chair of the interior design department, says the students’ selection as presenters in such a venue “underscores the high level of academic achievement that has come to be expected of Brenau students and faculty.”