July 2020

LumenFocus’s new UVFocus line of germicidal UV luminaires use UVC or near-UV technology to disinfect surfaces within line of sight of viruses and bacteria.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade, gathering 425 million high-resolution images now viewable as a time-lapse video.

The Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) recently announced that Mariana Figueiro, PhD has been appointed to lead two new programs focused on aging and on sleep and circadian research.

In this featured episode of the Get a Grip on Lighting podcast, hosts Greg Ehrich, LC, former President of NAILD and owner of Premier Lighting, and Michael Colligan, an entrepreneur and inventor, interview Ray Molony, editor of LUX REVIEW, on eight major impacts he predicts the COVID pandemic will have on the lighting industry.

The Illuminating Engineering Society’s New York City section have announced 14 winners of the 2020 Lumen Awards, with Cooley Monato Studio and the DLR Group taking top honors.

Espen Technology continues to expand its Sentinel family of emergency solutions for LED lighting, which includes Type A emergency ballasts for use with existing fluorescent ballasts, Type B emergency inverters for use with line voltage TLEDs or fixtures, Type C emergency drivers for use with encased LED drivers, and stand-alone emergency back-up kits. One of the most recent EM solutions added to the Sentinel family is an LED emergency driver.

The Designers Lighting Forum of New York and the LEDucation committee have announced the LEDucation 2020 Virtual Trade Show and Conference, being held August 18-19, 2020, is open for registration.

Pompeo Group has announced a free webinar to be held Wednesday, July 15 from 11 AM to 12 PM CST to help job searchers in the COVID era.

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is investigating the impacts of working from home or quarantining indoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic on individual daily light exposures, and how this may be affecting sleep quality and psychological health. In May 2020, the LRC invited people who had been staying home due to the pandemic to complete a short survey about their sleep, mood, and daily light exposure. A total of 708 people responded, which some interesting results.