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Jonas Bellovin
In 2003, The Nuckolls Fund added a new award to its already existing grants. With the incredibly generous $200,000 pledge to the fund in memory of Jonas Bellovin from the Bellovin family foundation, The Nuckolls Fund initiated the Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award. Mr. Bellovin was the founder of Legion Lighting located in Brooklyn New York.
The Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award is meant to address another important aspect of lighting education ‚ the student. It is meant as a reward to a student who has demonstrated outstanding performance in an established lighting program. This $5,000 annual award is given to a single individual for his or her use for education-related purposes. A grant recipient might use it for further education, to pay off student education loans, to relocate to obtain a position within the lighting industry, or any other appropriate education-related purpose. The Nuckolls Fund feels that there are seven schools within the United States that presently offer a full lighting education program. They are: Parsons School of Design, Penn State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center, Texas Christian University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and the University of New Hampshire in Manchester. As faculty members and programs change over time, the fund maintains the ability to add or subtract a school from this initial group. The primary faculty member at each of these schools has been contacted by the fund and they are all eager to participate in the Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award program. Initially, each school is given an upcoming year in which they will be required to submit a nomination to the fund of one outstanding individual to receive the $5,000 award. A description from the primary lighting faculty member at the school is required to indicate the reasons why that particular student deserves to receive the award. At the same time, the student nominated informs The Nuckolls Fund Board how the grant monies will be used.