The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education

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Nuckolls Fund Announces Educational Award in Honor of Jules Horton

New York NY, September 18, 2007 - The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education has announced that the principals of Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design (HLB) have made a major contribution to the Fund in honor of the late Jules Horton, founder of their firm. HLB Lighting Design has contributed $25,000 to the Nuckolls Fund and has committed to raise a total of $200,000 over the next two years.

The HLB initiative will fund a $5,000 annual Jules Horton International Student Achievement Award to an international student who has achieved outstanding performance in pursuit of a career in lighting in the US and is enrolled in one of the six United States colleges that offer a full lighting education program. According to the firm, Mr. Horton "always appreciated the opportunities he was given to come to the US as a student of engineering at Columbia University where he received his Masters degree. When he completed his studies, he intended to return to Poland but was given a financial incentive to remain in the US and, as a result, the profession of lighting design benefited. We believe that this award will financially assist students in the process of immigration to the US, again benefiting the lighting design profession."

Nuckolls Fund President Jeffrey A. Milham noted that the Jules Horton award, like the Fund's Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award, recognizes scholastic excellence and encourages young members of the profession, who are the future of lighting design.

Jules Horton, a native of Warsaw, Poland, trained as a structural engineer at the Polytechnic Institute in Warsaw, and in 1947 came to the U.S. to obtain his Masters at Columbia University. Always drawn to art, music, language and literature, he collected an interesting circle of friends during his years at Columbia University's International House. One of the most significant people he met during his formative years was Abe Feder, who introduced Jules to the world of architectural lighting. In 1969, after working for several other firms, he launched his own business from his living room studio. One of his first large-scale projects was the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport with HOK, and other early work included the Jeddah International Airport, University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia and Tour de CrŽdit Lyonnais in Lyon, France. His European background and fluency in English, Polish, German, Russian, French and Italian served him well.

Over the years, he remembered his good fortune in being a young student in a foreign land that offered him the opportunity to be successful, and he always gave his people a chance to show their talent regardless of their past avocation, education or background.

The first Jules Horton International Student Achievement Award will be presented in May 2008 during The Nuckolls Fund Annual Luncheon at LIGHTFAIR International in Las Vegas.

Nuckolls Fund Adds New Member to Board of Directors

New York, NY, September 7, 2007 - The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education announced that Carol C. Caughey, IIDA, Associate Professor of Design and Human Environment at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education. She replaces Kevin Houser, PhD, Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who retired from the Board at the completion of his three-year term. Since 1990, Professor Caughey has been responsible for many of the required Interior Design and Housing Studies courses in the Department of Design and Human Environment. In 2003, she was awarded a Nuckolls Fund Edison Price Fellowship which afforded her the opportunity to serve a summer internship at Ripman Lighting Consultants in Belmont, MA. The Fellowship was established in 1999 to help educators further their own lighting education. Ms. Caughey attended the IES Teachers of Lighting Workshop at the University of New Hampshire in 1995, and has served on the Lighting Network of the Interior Design Educators Council for the past 15 years.

The 12-member Board of Directors of the Nuckolls Fund is drawn from all sectors of the lighting community. Three members are involved in teaching lighting at the university or college level. Other members come from manufacturing, sales and design. Now in its 18th year, the Nuckolls Fund was established in memory of the lighting designer and educator Jim Nuckolls, who had a special ability to inspire interest in, and commitment to, the field of architectural lighting design. With this year's grants, the Fund has made a total of $500,000 in awards drawn from the income generated by an endowment. The endowment is entirely the result of continuing financial support from a wide spectrum of the lighting community.

Nuckolls Fund Awards $55,000 in 2007

New York, NY, May 13, 2007 - At its annual luncheon this year, the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education announced the presentation of two $20,000 grants, a $10,000 Edison Price Fellowship, and a $5,000 Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award. The grants and award were presented on May 8, 2007, during LIGHTFAIR INTERNATIONAL, held this year at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York.

Boston Architectural College in Massachusetts received a $20,000 grant to expand its course offerings in lighting education by developing three half-semester courses for students from multiple disciplines to study under the umbrella of sustainable electric and daylighting design. The College's goal is eventually to create a minor in lighting design and, ultimately, a nationally recognized program.

The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, will use its $20,000 grant to develop a course entitled ÒAdvanced Lighting Design Studio: Materials & Technology.Ó The intention of the course is to give students the tools to develop an understanding of the technology and practical steps required to realize their conceptual ideas.

The Edison Price Fellowship for $10,000 was awarded to Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, an assistant professor at the University of Idaho College of Art and Architecture. He will spend a portion of each week for one academic year at the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning, its Integrated Design Lab in Puget Sound and the Lighting Design Lab in downtown Seattle, working to strengthen his understanding of integrated electric lighting design, HDR imaging and radiance, and controls for daylit spaces. The Fellowship was instituted in order to help lighting educators further their own education.

The 2007 Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award in the amount of $5,000 was presented to Megan Christen, currently completing both her BS and MS degrees at the University of Colorado Boulder. The award, established in 2003, rotates among the six United States colleges that offer a full lighting education program. Students are nominated by their faculty.

During the luncheon, Frank Conti, president of Enterprise Lighting Sales Corp. and a member of the Nuckolls Fund Board since its inception, was the subject of a "roast," with commentary contributed by Richard Agriss, Manny Feris, Addison Kelly, Stephen Lees, Bob Prouse, Sonny Sonnenfeld, Charles Stone, and Matthew Tanteri.

Nuckolls Fund president Jeffrey Milham announced several major new contributions. They included a $10,000 bequest from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and $5,000 each from Enterprise Lighting Sales, the Illuminating Engineering Society New Jersey Section, the Illuminating Engineering Society New York Section, and Nulux Incorporated. The Designers Lighting Forum of New York continued its support with a new $3,000 contribution. B-K Lighting and TEKA Illumination once again sponsored a Fun Run/Walk during LIGHTFAIR as a fund raiser for the Nuckolls Fund.

Now in its 18th year, the Nuckolls Fund was established in memory of the lighting designer and educator Jim Nuckolls, who had a special ability to inspire interest in, and commitment to, the field of architectural lighting design. With this year's grants, the Fund has made a total of $500,000 in awards drawn from the income generated by an endowment. The endowment is entirely the result of continuing financial support from a wide spectrum of the lighting community.

Nuckolls Fund Announces 2006 Grants

New York, NY, May 5, 2006 - The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education has announced that it will present two $20,000 grants and a $5,000 Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award in 2006. The grants and award will be presented during the Fund's annual luncheon which will be held this year at the Las Vegas Convention Center on May 30 during LIGHTFAIR INTERNATIONAL.

Ball State University, located in Muncie, Indiana, will receive a $20,000 grant to develop a graduate-level required course in the College of Architecture and Planning's Sustainability Concentration. The course, entitled "Daylectric Lighting," will emphasize innovative approaches to combining electric and daylight sources in the illumination of building interiors. It will be offered as one of five required courses in the graduate concentration focusing on sustainable design in architecture.

The University of Washington, Seattle, will use its $20,000 grant to develop and deliver a new lighting course entitled "Computational Lighting Design and Analysis." To be offered through the Department of Architecture, the graduate-level course will draw from recent developments in lighting simulation, visualization, pre-pixel data measurement and analysis techniques.

The $5,000 Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award, presented this year for the fourth time, will go to Megan Gover, a junior in the interior design program at Texas Christian University. The Bellovin Award rotates among the six United States colleges that offer a full lighting education program. Students are nominated by their faculty.

The speaker for this year's luncheon will be Paul Gregory of Focus Lighting who will discuss the role of the IALD Education Trust and its work with schools of architecture. His presentation will outline the importance of beginning at the student level by educating architectural students in the fundamentals of lighting design in order to raise interest and appreciation in the value of high-quality lighting design.

Now in its 17th year, the Nuckolls Fund was established in memory of the lighting designer and educator Jim Nuckolls, who had a special ability to inspire interest in, and commitment to, the field of architectural lighting design. With this year's grants, the Fund has made a total of $445,000 in awards drawn from the income generated by an endowment. The endowment is entirely the result of continuing financial support from a wide spectrum of the lighting community.

Nuckolls Fund 2005 Grant Awards Total $45,000

New York, NY, May 6, 2005 - The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education presented a total of $45,000 in grants at its April luncheon, held this year at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York during Lightfair International.

For the first time the Fund presented an award in its New Grant Option category which was created to allow the Fund to consider ideas which do not fall into its traditional categories. This grant, for $20,000, was given to Jill Mulholland, PhD candidate and instructor at Texas A&M University. She will explore the concept that light and place can be identified, captured and reproduced, and will incorporate into her class the results of her study of their integral relationship.

Two $10,000 Edison Price Fellowships, presented to help educators further their own lighting education, were given this year. Professor Dorothy Fowles, director of the interior design program at Iowa State University, will participate in a summer internship at the firm of Shuler Shook Lighting Designers in Chicago, Il. Laura Prestwood, assistant professor at Texas Christian University, will serve as a summer intern at the Lighting Design Alliance in Long Beach, CA.

The $5,000 Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award was presented for the third time. Established as a reward to a student who has demonstrated outstanding performance in a lighting program, it was shared this year by two students from The Lighting Research Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Kenneth Appleman and Alexander Baker each received $2,500.

A moving tribute to Lesley Wheel, one of the Fund's founding board members, was a major feature of the luncheon program. In his remarks, Fund president Jeffrey Milham described Ms. Wheel as "a person of 'ideas,' and it's amazing to think about just how many 'ideas' she had and how far she took them." He noted that, without her, the Nuckolls Fund simply would not exist today. To date, the Fund has received a total of $16,500 in contributions in her memory.

Since 1989, the Nuckolls Fund has awarded a total of $400,000 to support lighting education, and its endowment is now over $1 million. Mr. Milham noted that it is completely as a result of the generosity of the Fund's contributors that such progress is possible, and he cited several of the Fund's major contributors. B-K Lighting has taken over sponsorship of the Fund's annual Fun Run/Walk. The Designers Lighting Forum presented a check at the luncheon for $5,000, bringing total DLF contributions to over $50,000. The recent contribution was given in memory of Sidney Feltman and Lesley Wheel. The New York Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society presented a check for $4,000 in memory of Timothy Pike and Lesley Wheel. NY Section contributions now total $47,000. Nulux Lighting recently contributed $10,000 for a total of $45,000 in memory of Edison Price.

The speaker at this year's luncheon was Jonathan Speirs, principal director of Speirs and Major Associates, a lighting design firm with offices in London and Edinburgh. Mr. Speirs gave an illustrated presentation about the inspiration behind the "Made of Light" exhibition designed by his firm, which is currently touring design centers in Europe. He also showed how his firm communicates their conceptual ideas to clients with examples of their work in Europe and the Middle East.

Nuckolls Fund Adds Three to Board of Directors

New York, NY, August 6, 2004 - The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education has announced that three new directors have joined the Board effective August 1st, 2004. They are Kevin W. Houser, assistant professor of architectural engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Diarmuid J. McSweeney, vice president, business development, for Holophane Lighting, Newark, Ohio; and Lee Waldron, president of Grenald Waldron Associates, Narberth, Pennsylvania.

The new Board members replace three long-term members: the late Lesley Wheel, architectural lighting pioneer and Fund originator, and two Board members who resigned at the end of their terms: Robert Allen, retired professor at Washington State University, and Daniel Fitzpatrick, Sr., president of SpectroLume Inc.

The professional interests of Kevin Houser, PhD, PE, LC, revolve around improving buildings for human habitation. His research focuses on the relationship between the spectral composition of light and human vision, and he develops and teaches courses in illuminating engineering and lighting design. Before joining the University of Nebraska he was manager of lighting education for Philips Lighting Company. He received bachelors and doctoral degrees in architectural engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Diarmuid McSweeney, FIES, LC, has been with Holophane for 37 years, holding a variety of positions in optics, training, research and development, sales and marketing, international areas, and industrial lighting. He is a past president of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and a current member of the Board of Directors of First Federal S&L of Newark, Ohio. He received bachelors and masters degrees in physics from Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland, and an MBA degree from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Lee Waldron, FIALD, LC, is an architectural lighting designer whose early background includes theater, film, and television lighting. Currently, in addition to consulting on lighting design projects throughout the world, he is involved in the development of lighting knowledge management tools to broaden the general public's awareness of good lighting design. He also teaches lighting at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia and is a former president of the International Association of Lighting Designers.

The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education was founded in 1988 to support college-level lighting programs that inspire students with an understanding of light in architecture. The Fund's endowment has grown to allow the award, in 2004, of a total of $55,000 in grants without touching principal. A total of $355,000 has been awarded in grants since 1989.

Nuckolls Fund Names Grant for Lesley Wheel

New York, NY, June 15, 2004 - The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education announced today that the Fund's $20,000 annual grant for an introductory lighting program at a college or university has been named in honor of architectural lighting pioneer and Fund originator Lesley Wheel who died on April 1st, 2004. The grant will be known as the "Lesley Wheel Introductory Lighting Program Grant."

In explaining the decision, Fund president Jeffrey Milham said, "When our Board was considering how to honor Lesley, we realized that she was at heart a person of ideas, and the establishment of the Nuckolls Fund was one of them. She provided the inspiration, raised the initial funds, got others excited about her idea, and always tried to keep us thinking creatively. Naming the introductory grant for her made sense to us because she "introduced" so many ideas and initiatives. Without Lesley, the Nuckolls Fund simply would not exist."

Lesley Wheel was a member of the Board of Directors from the Fund's founding in 1988 to her death. The Nuckolls Fund supports college-level lighting programs that enable students to learn, appreciate and apply the basics of lighting and design. The Fund's endowment has grown from the initial $40,000 that Lesley Wheel raised and now, in 2004 alone, allowed the award of a total of $55,000 in grants without touching principal. A total of $355,000 has been awarded in grants since 1989.

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