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Current Grant Activities

 Boston Architectural College in 2007
A group of faculty led by Daniel A. Weissman 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 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 to be named Advanced Lighting Design Studio: Light, Materials & Technology. This course will not only be taught in California. The same faculty will also teach it at the Tama Art University in Japan as part of a Pacific Rim exchange program between the two schools. This grant is scheduled to be completed in 2009.

Edison Price Fellowship in 2007
The $10,000 Fellowship is granted to a lighting educator to support work furthering his or her teaching career. Mr. Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg of the University of Idaho in Boise will use his Fellowship to spend a portion of each week for the period of one academic year studying and working at the University of Washington, College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Integrated Design Lab, Puget Sound as well as the Lighting Design Lab in Seattle. This grant is scheduled to be completed in 2008.

Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award in 2007
The $5,000 Award is granted to a student who has demonstrated outstanding performance in an established lighting program and may be used for education-related purposes. Recipients are drawn from six schools that the Fund feels offer a full lighting education program: Parsons School of 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. This year, the award was given to Ms. Megan Christen who is a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Ball State University in 2006
Robert A. Fisher will use a $20,000 grant at the Center for Energy Research/Education/Service (CERES) at Ball State University to develop and offer a new required course in their professional architecture graduate program. The studio course will be entitled "'Daylectric' Lighting: A course in Lighting Design for Architectural Students Emphasizing Innovative Approaches to Combining Electric Light and Daylight in the Illumination of Building Interiors." This grant is scheduled to be completed in 2008.

University of Washington in 2006
Mehlika Inanici will use a $20,000 grant at the University of Washington in their Department of Architecture to develop and deliver a new lighting course called "Computational Lighting Design and Analysis". It will be an innovative program that draws from recent developments in lighting simulation, visualization, per-pixel data measurement and analysis techniques. This grant was completed in 2007.

Texas A & M University in 2005
A $20,000 grant was given to Ms. Jill Mulholland, Ph.D. Candidate and Instructor, at Texas A & M University to build and document her dissertation, Light Celebrating Place and Time, Road Trip. She will explore the concept that the magic of light and place can be identified, captured and reproduced. Her dissertation is based on the premise that light and place work together in a partnership that is so interwoven, embedded, and intermingled, that neither can exist without the other. She will complete her dissertation as well as incorporating her work into the class she teaches at Texas A&M University. This grant was completed in 2007.

Maryland Institute of College of Art in 2004
The Maryland College Institute of Art in Baltimore will use its $20,000 grant to develop a new introductory course in lighting called "Lighting Concepts and Applications". The first dedicated course in lighting at the College, it will be a required three-credit course to be taught annually in the fall semester for junior BFA candidates majoring in Environmental Design. Mr. Glenn Shrum will oversee the grant and teach the course. This grant is scheduled to be completed in 2008.


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