The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education has named eight winners of grants and awards for 2018 totaling $90,000, the largest annual distribution in its 29-year history. This year’s total brings the Fund’s support for lighting education since its founding to $1.145 million. Submittals were received from lighting educators in colleges and universities throughout North America.
A $20,000 Nuckolls Fund Grant was given to the University of Minnesota to assist in the development of a Lighting Design Minor, plus the introduction of a new advanced lighting course titled “Lighting Design Innovations and Technological Advances,” to be offered by the University’s College of Design. Abimbola Asojo will be the Principal Investigator with Mary Guzowski as the Co-principal Investigator for this grant.
A second $20,000 Nuckolls Fund Grant was awarded to the University of Oregon for the development and delivery of a new course, “Virtual Lighting Design.” Siobhan Rockcastle, Chair of the Baker Lighting Lab, will be the Principal Investigator with support by a team comprised of Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, David Grigsby, Zachary Suchara, Nathaniel Jones, and Naomi Miller.
The University of Cincinnati received the Fund’s $20,000 Lesley Wheel Introductory Lighting Program Grant for its proposal for “Establishing Cross-disciplinary Architectural Lighting Education.” Julian Wang will serve as Principal Investigator, responsible for creating the new architectural lighting course to be offered to upper level undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the University’s three current programs of Architecture, Interior Design, and Architectural Engineering.
Seunghae Lee from Oregon State University will apply her $10,000 Edison Price Fellowship Grant to pursue a summer internship with the lighting design firm of Lam Partners in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The $5,000 Jonas Bellovin Scholar Achievement Award was given to Dixon Stein from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Recipient of the $5,000 Jules Horton International Student Achievement Award was Archanaa Pradhapan, a native of India now studying at Pennsylvania State University.
Two $5,000 Designers Lighting Forum of New York Student Achievement Awards were presented this year. Winners are Riley Johnson from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and Joanna Filter, attending the Parsons School of Design in New York City.
The Nuckolls Fund was established to honor the late lighting designer and educator James Nuckolls. Submittals for financial support from the Fund’s three ongoing programs are judged annually. Colleges and universities are eligible to be grant recipients of successful proposals to develop and expand lighting design education. Instructors in lighting can receive financial aid to improve their individual teaching techniques and instructional abilities. Students who demonstrate outstanding performance in their academic lighting design program are nominated by their instructors to receive a $5,000 Fund award.
For 2019, the Nuckolls Fund has changed its deadline for receipt of applications grants and awards to November 30, 2018. Distribution to winners will take place in New York City at LEDucation on March 12-13, 2019, at the New York Hilton. Click here to learn more.
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