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Nuckolls Fund's $85,000 for 2010 Grants and Awards is Highest Ever

The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education presented a record total of $85,000 for lighting education grants and awards at its annual luncheon at Lightfair 2010 held in Las Vegas on May 12. Topping this year's awards and grants was the special $50,000 grant that was given in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Fund's founding, presented to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

An innovative, multi-institution approach to lighting education, "Lighting Across the Design Curriculum," was the winning proposal submitted by Katherine Ankerson, associate dean of UNL's College of Architecture and professor in the Interior Design Program. Prof. Ankerson's project consists of a series of teaching modules applicable to architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture. Four universities are participating in the award-winning program: the University of Nebraska, Miami University of Ohio, Kansas State University, and the University of Texas at Austin.

An estimated 1,600 students will be able to access the seven interactive digital modules. "This is a very exciting project," said Jeffrey Milham, Nuckolls Fund president, at the award ceremony. "In the future, the Fund hopes to make these teaching modules available to an even broader audience beyond the four participating institutions," Milham told the audience of Nuckolls Fund supporters.

A $25,000 New Grant Option was approved this year by the Fund's Board to offer intensive study in lighting design to individuals beginning a new career, making a career change, or enhancing existing design or education skills. Recipient of the grant is Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. Linda Pollari, chair of the Architecture/Landscape/Interiors department, will apply the grant to develop and activate a new lighting design certificate program at Otis. In presenting the award, Milham corroborated the Board's belief in the program's concept and success. "It has the enthusiastic support of so many of the Los Angeles area's well-known and well-established lighting designers."

Two awards of $5,000 each were given to outstanding students currently in lighting programs.

Milham reported that a total of $695,000 has been awarded over the past 21 years. The Nuckolls Fund was named in honor of the late lighting designer and educator, James L. Nuckolls, who led a dual career as a lighting designer as well as an educator and ardent champion of lighting education.

Contributions from the lighting industry provide the financing for the Fund to further its dedication to the profession and the educating of lighting design practitioners. Major contributions this year included: $20,000 from the Jonas Bellovin Memorial Foundation in memory of Jonas Bellovin; $7,500 from the Designers Lighting Forum of New York in memory of Todd Rosencrans;$7,000 from Barbara Horton Lees and Stephen Lees in memory of Jules Horton; $5,000 each from the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section, and Enterprise Lighting Sales in memory of Der Scutt; $5,000 from HLB Lighting Design in memory of Jules Horton; $2,500 from B-K Lighting and TEKA Illumination; $1,500 from the Illuminating Engineering Society, New Jersey Section; and $1,550 from several contributors at ILA Lighting & Controls to more than match the IESNJ donation.

Concluding the luncheon ceremonies was a presentation by 2007's $20,000 Nuckolls Fund grant recipients Penny Herscovitch and Dan Gottlieb who have created PadLab, a light, materials and environmental design studio at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Their grant was used to initiate the interdisciplinary Advanced Light, Materials & Technology studio.

Deadline date for 2011 proposals is February 4, 2011. Click here to download current contributor forms and grant RFPs.

Katherine S. Ankerson, associate dean of University of Nebraska at Lincoln's College of Architecture and professor in the Interior Design program, accepts a check for $50,000 from Jeffrey A. Milham, president of The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education. The award will be used to implement "Lighting Across the Design Curriculum," a multi-discipline, multi-university approach to lighting education initiated by UN-L. Dean Ankerson was presented with the Twentieth Anniversary Grant at the annual Nuckolls Fund awards luncheon held this year at Lightfair International in Las Vegas in May. Photo by Lagniappe Studio.

Art Center students integrate LEDs into artisan products

 A Nuckolls Fund grant supports a studio course that integrates low-tech materials into high-design lighting creations.

Sixteen students at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design participated in a hands-on, year-long workshop course to produce prototypes of high-design lighting products from low-tech materials. Working with such diverse sources as loofah plants and plastic bags, they created such products as an LED-powered woman's vest and functional wall and ceiling-hung luminaires.

The course, Light, Materials and Technology, was made possible by a $20,000 grant from The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, initially awarded to the Art Center in 2007. "Recent developments in LED technology have resulted in smaller, cooler, and brighter LEDs and flexible LED strips," says Penny Herscovitch, who co-directs the Center's Environmental Design Department with Dan Gottlieb. "We urged our students to invent ways in which these LEDs could be integrated into tactile, flexible, and sustainable materials for objects that can be used in interiors, or worn," she indicates.

In 2009, the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education awarded $60,000 for educational programs and research related to the training of professional lighting designers at U.S. educational institutions. The Fund commemorates the late lighting designer and lighting educator James L. Nuckolls. Now in its twentieth year, the Fund has distributed over $610,000 in grants and awards. Financial support comes from contributions by manufacturers, professional organizations, design firms, and individuals active in the lighting industry.

Students participating in the Art Center course conducted experiments to determine low-tech manufacturing techniques to illuminate their lit objects. "The course offered the students an opportunity to practice a whole new way of thinking about and utilizing light," Herscovitch says. Completed projects also had application to the students' other courses such as hospitality and exhibit design. Herscovitch and Gottlieb co-managed the course for the Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 terms. They documented the students' projects from early concept through fabrication and final presentation that will be a permanent record of the Fund's success in stimulating original solutions by U.S. design students for the interpretation of lighting.

Submittals for the 2010 awards, including $20,000 awards for the development of new college and university-level lighting education courses, plus a new grant of up to $50,000 for 2010 are due on February 5, 2010.

Skin and Heart loofah decorative lights by
Sellene Lee
Student Sellene Lee created two luminaires made from natural loofah sponges. The Skin and Heart pendant light, made from inner loofah hearts sewn together, emits a warm, tactile glow from a 25-W incandescent G-16.5 lamp.
La Crespi: A shirt light by Jason Pi

The La Crespi group of floor, table and pendant lights are made from ribbed tee shirts that were manipulated, twisted, wrapped, treated with non-toxic fabric stiffener, then sculpted into a circular form. A 32-W CFL provides illumination. Student Jason Pi proposed teaming up with Homeboy Industries, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching gang members new skills to help them escape the streets and earn a living wage.

Ghost Walker illuminated vest by Soo Kwon

The Ghost Walker illuminated vest creates a ghost-like silhouette of the wearer as she zips up the vest. The garment is constructed of an inner and outer layer. Several surface-mounted LED ribbons are affixed to a fabric substrate and connected to the zipper via stitched conductive thread and wire. As the zipper passes by each ribbon, it closes the circuit and illuminates them sequentially. The surface-mounted LED flexible ribbon has three LEDs spaced every two inches. The nylon fabric functions as a diffuser.
Copper hanging columns and wall lights by Deana Juskys

Copper mesh creates radiating patterns of reflected light. The wall light creates a warm ambiance for living or dining. The sconce is lit by a 60-W T10 lamp.
Plastic bag pendant by Yoo Seon Hyun

A pendant light was fabricated from heat-fused plastic bags, folded into an intricate origami form. This project is an example of a functional recycling use for the 100 billion plastic bags that are thrown away each year in the U.S. The fixture contains an 11-W CFL lamp.

20th Annual Nuckolls Fund Awards Total $60,000

For the twentieth consecutive year, The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education presented grants and awards at its annual Lightfair luncheon, this year totaling $60,000. Recipients included two educational institutions, a pair of lighting design students, and a lighting research team. In addition, to celebrate the Fund's twentieth anniversary, a new grant of up to $50,000 has been added to the Fund's programs for 2010.

Named in honor of lighting designer and legendary lighting educator James Nuckolls, the Fund's financial support of lighting education has grown annually. From a single $5,000 gift to Pennsylvania State University in 1989, the Fund has now awarded a total of $610,000. Contributions and bequests are donated to the Fund by lighting design professionals and firms, as well as organizations, manufacturers, sales firms, and distributors in the lighting community.

The addition of the $50,000 award was announced at the luncheon by Jeffrey A. Milham, Fund president. "The Fund's Board of Directors initiated this expanded financial incentive to encourage the submission of an increased number of proposals for its consideration," Milham explained. "We believe that there are many more creative ideas for lighting education that we want to learn about and support," Milham said.

Retiring from The Nuckolls Fund Board of Directors this year are Patrick Sears, a 17-year Board member, and Emma Price, who served for 12 years. Their positions are being filled by Robert Davis of Litecontrol and Barbara Horton of Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design. Grant proposals are reviewed by the Fund's Board who select the recipients based on concept, originality, and a summary of projected benefits. Submittals for the next Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education grant awards are due February 5, 2010.

$20,000 Grants to educational institutions, named in honor of the late Lesley Wheel, lighting designer and inspirational teacher.

  • East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, for the development of a new course called "Color and Light in Interior Design." Under the direction of assistant professor Charles Gustina in the Department of Interior Design and Merchandising, the new course will be required for all freshman interior design students.

  • Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, will add two new introductory lighting design courses to be taught in sequence. "Lighting for a Sustainable Future," to be developed by Patricia Seitz, head of the Graduate Program in Architecture, will be offered to both graduate and undergraduate students.

    • $5,000 Grants to Two Lighting Design Students

  • The Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award was given to Darlene Myrie, a second year student in the MFA Lighting Design Program at Parsons The New School for Design, New York.

  • The Jules Horton International Student Achievement Award was won by Alriah Pereira, a student at Texas Christian University's Center for Lighting Education, Fort Worth.

    • $10,000 Edison Price Fellowship Grant

    Conor Sampson from McGill University, Montreal, will apply the grant to develop an automated and easily applicable series of daylighting and daylight controls guidelines. He will collaborate on the project with Christoph Reinhart, Associate Professor of Architectural Technology at Harvard University. They will use existing building inventory at McGill and Harvard as a laboratory to validate their product. Sampson will also prepare case studies of buildings which incorporate sustainable lighting strategies.

    Major Nuckolls Fund Contributors

    Among the major contributors to the Nuckolls Fund are the Jonas Bellovin Memorial Foundation; B-K Lighting and TEKA Illumination; the Designers Lighting Forum of New York; Enterprise Lighting Sales; Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design; Barbara Horton and Stephen Lees; the New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America; and Nulux Incorporated.

    Photos: Lagniappe Studio

    At the twentieth annual awards luncheon of The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, Evan Bellovin of Legion Lighting (l.) presents the $5,000 Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award to Darlene Myrie of Parsons The New School for Design, New York. Fund president Jeffrey A. Milham (r.) presided over the ceremonies held during Lightfair 2009. The Fund has awarded a total of $610,000 since its founding in 1989.
    Patricia Seitz, director of the Graduate Program in Architecture at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, accepts a check for $20,000 from Jeffrey A. Milham, president of The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education. Presented at the Fund's twentieth annual awards luncheon held at Lightfair, the grant was named in honor of Lesley Wheel, legendary lighting designer and teacher. Prof. Seitz will add two new introductory lighting design courses, "Lighting for a Sustainable Future," to be taught in sequence.
    Barbara Horton, (l.) of Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design, New York, is shown with Alriah Pereira, who was awarded the $5,000 Jules Horton International Student Achievement Award. Ms. Pereira is a student at Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, in its Center for Lighting Education. Ms. Horton is a member of the Fund's Board of Directors.
    Conor Sampson (l.) from McGill University, Montreal, will apply the $10,000 Edison Price Fellowship Grant to the development of automated daylighting and daylight controls guidelines. He received the check from Jeffrey A. Milham, president of The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education. Sampson will also prepare case studies of buildings which incorporate sustainable lighting strategies.
    Prof. Glenn Shrum of the Maryland Institute College of Art described the success of the "Lighting Concepts and Applications" course that was funded by a 2004 $20,000 grant from the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education. Shrum illustrated how the course became a catalyst in the growth of MICA's lighting program and the expanded lighting lab.

    Nuckolls Fund awards $55,000 for 2008

     The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education presented $55,000 in grants at its annual Lightfair luncheon, citing a pair of students, two college-level programs, and a lighting historian. Since the program's launching 19 years ago with a single $5,000 gift, the Fund has now awarded a total of $555,000 in grants.

    Named for lighting designer and legendary lighting educator James Nuckolls, the Fund has expanded its activities nationwide over the past two decades. Active support comes from design professionals along with manufacturers, sales representatives, and distributors of lighting products. Contributions range from $200,000 to a few hundred dollars. "Every donation is important to us and truly does make a difference," says Jeffrey A. Milham, Fund president.

    Grant proposals are reviewed by the Fund's Board of Directors who select the recipients based on concept, originality, and a summary of projected benefits. Submittals for the next Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education grant awards are due Febuary 1, 2009. Information is posted on the Fund's web site, www.nuckollsfund.org.

    $20,000 Grants to Educational Institutions

  • Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design
    The Lesley Wheel Introductory Lighting Program Grant will assist in the development of a lighting design curriculum. It will be open to all of the school's architecture and interior design students.

  • University of Oklahoma College of Architecture
    This Nuckolls Fund Grant will be applied to developing and delivering an advanced lighting design course. The new program will integrate computer visualization techniques for simulation and quantification.

    • $5,000 Grants to Individuals

  • The Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award was given to Lisa Friehe, a senior in the Lighting Option of Architectural Engineering at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Named for the founder of Brooklyn-based Legion Lighting Co., Inc., the Bellovin prize rewards a student who has demonstrated outstanding performance in an established lighting program. Ms. Friehe has done original research on discomfort glare.

  • The initial Jules Horton International Student Achievement Award was won by Rui Qi, who is pursuing a specialty in lighting at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center in Troy, New York. It was presented by Barbara Horton of Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design. "Ms. Qi has shown strong and consistent academic performance, and is committed to her research to make significant contributions to the field of lighting," said Ms. Horton.

  • Prof. Sandy Isenstadt, an assistant professor in Yale University's Department of Art History, was the recipient of the Edison Price Fellowship to further his research on "Electric Modernism-Architecture and Illumination." The study shows how electric lighting in the early- to mid-twentieth century affected the development of contemporary U.S. architecture.

    • Among the major contributors to the Nuckolls Fund this year are the New York and New Jersey Sections of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America; the Designers Lighting Forum of New York; B-K Lighting and TEKA Illumination; Enterprise Lighting Sales; Barbara Horton and Stephen Lees; International Lights; Legion Lighting Co., Inc.; Lightolier; Nulux Incorporated; and Winona Lighting.



    		Jeffrey A. Milham, president of the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, presented The Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award to Lisa Friehe, a senior in the Lighting Option of Architectural Engineering at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Ms. Friehe, who has been involved in research on discomfort glare, received the $5,000 prize at the Fund's annual Lightfair luncheon.


    		Rui Qi of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center, Troy, N.Y., received the initial $5,000 Jules Horton International Student Achievement Award from Barbara Horton of Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design. The Horton award was part of the $55,000 in Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education grants distributed at the Fund's annual luncheon held during Lightfair.


    		Abimbola Asojo of the University of Oklahoma's College of Architecture, accepted the first interim check as part the $20,000 Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education grant to develop and deliver an advanced lighting design course. Jeffrey A. Milham, president of the Nuckolls Fund, made the presentation at the Fund's annual luncheon held during Lightfair.


    		Robert Davis was a featured speaker at the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education award luncheon held during Lightfair 2008 in Las Vegas. Currently the Director of Product Management at Litecontrol, he is a past recipient of a Nuckolls Fund Grant. He was previously affiliated with the lighting design programs at University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.

    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 Cr»dit 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 "Advanced Lighting Design Studio: Materials & Technology." 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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