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Current Grant Activities

 East Carolina University in 2009
This $20,000 Lesley Wheel Introductory Lighting Program Grant was awarded for the development and delivery of a new course to be called "Color and Light in Interior Design". Mr. Charles Gustina, Assistant Professor in the Department of Interior Design and Merchandising, will develop the required course for all freshman students in the interior design program. This grant is scheduled to be completed in 2013.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2009
This $20,000 Lesley Wheel Introductory Lighting Program Grant was awarded for the development and delivery of two introductory courses in lighting which are intended to be taught in sequence. Patricia Seitz, Head of the Graduate Program in Architecture, will develop "Lighting for a Sustainable Future" which is to be offered to both graduate and undergraduate students. This grant is scheduled to be completed in 2014.

Edison Price Fellowship in 2009
This $10,000 Fellowship grant is given to a lighting educator to support work furthering his or her teaching career. Mr. Conor Sampson of McGill University in Montreal Canada will apply the grant to develop an automated and easily applicable series of daylighting and daylight controls guidelines using existing building inventory at McGill and Harvard Universities as a laboratory to validate their product. He will also do case studies of buildings which incorporate sustainable lighting strategies. He will collaborate on the project with Christoph Reinhart, Associate Professor of Architectural Technology at Harvard University. This grant is scheduled to be completed in 2009.

Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award in 2009
This $5,000 Award is granted to a student who has demonstrated outstanding performance in an established lighting program and may only be used for education-related purposes. Recipients are drawn from six schools that the Fund feels offer a full lighting education program: Parsons The New School for Design, Penn State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center, Texas Christian University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. The 2009 award was given to Darlene Myrie who is a student Parsons The New School for Design.

Jules Horton International Student Achievement Award in 2009
This $5,000 award in memory of Jules Horton was initiated in May of 2008 to reward an international student who has demonstrated outstanding performance in an established lighting program. The recipient is chosen from the same schools as the Jonas Bellovin Award and the grant is to be used only for educational purposes. The 2009 award was given to Alriah Pereira from India who is a student at Texas Christian University's Center for Lighting Education.

University of Oklahoma in 2008
At the University of Oklahoma in Norman Oklahoma, Abimbola Asojo, who was a Nuckolls Fund Edison Price Fellow in 2002, will use a $20,000 grant to develop and deliver a new lighting course to be called "Advanced Lighting Design Studio for Interior Design and Architecture Students" using computational techniques in lighting design. This grant is scheduled to be completed by 2010.

Virginia Tech in 2008
The Lesley Wheel Introductory Lighting Program Grant of $20,000 will be used by Lisa Tucker at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia to develop a lighting design curriculum including a seminar-based lighting course and an interdisciplinary studio course open to all members of the School of Architecture + Design. This grant is scheduled to be completed in 2012.

Edison Price Fellowship in 2008
This $5,000 Fellowship grant is given to a lighting educator to support work furthering his or her teaching career. Mr. Sandy Isenstadt of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut will use his fellowship to help fund his research for a planned book to be called "Electric Modernism. Architecture and Artificial Illumination", which he will use in his teaching at Yale. This grant is scheduled to be completed in 2009.

Art Center College of Design in 2007
Penny Herscovitch and Daniel Gottlieb in the Environmental Design Department of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California will use their $20,000 grant to develop and deliver a new ongoing course named "Advanced Lighting Design Studio: Light, Materials & Technology". This course was also taught by the same faculty at the Tama Art University in Japan as part of their Pacific Rim exchange program. This grant is scheduled to be completed in 2009.

Boston Architectural College in 2007
A faculty group will use their $20,000 grant to develop and introduce course work for three new half-semester design workshops to be named Introduction to Lighting Principles in Design, Advanced Green Electric Lighting Design Workshop, and Advanced Daylighting Design Workshop. Upon completion of the grant period, they plan to create additional course material to expand the program into a Minor in Lighting Design and a Certificate in Lighting Design. They also plan to have their students prepare for and take the NCQLP qualification examination in order to gain the Intern LC status. This grant is scheduled to be completed by 2010.


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