Education + Resources

IESNYC recently honored Aldo Jacques Espina, Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design, Parsons School of Design at the New School; Dinusha Thotagamamuwa, Ph.D. candidate at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and Ying Zhong, Master of Professional Studies in Lighting Design at the New York School of Interior Design (NYSID), on May 17, 2019 when they presented their theses to an audience of New York City lighting professionals. The Section will award each student $2,000.

Hubbell Lighting recently released the 2019 training schedule for the Lighting Solutions Center.

The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) has selected Brigid Hardiman, a candidate in the MPS Lighting Design program at New York School of Interior Design (NYSID), as the recipient of the fourth annual merit-based IESNYC Scholarship. The scholarship awards $25,000 to a full-time, graduate degree candidate in architectural lighting who is enrolled in an accredited college or university located in New York State.

The Richard Kelly Grant was established by the New York Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society in 1980. Originally conceived as a scholarship program and later opened to young persons working in lighting in North America, the Grant is administered by the New York Section under the auspices of the IES.

With the growing trend toward more human-centric designs in the commercial marketplace, Focal Point is providing the architecture and design community a tool to better understand how technology allows the quality of light to be tailored to human preference.

Submissions for the 2019 Howard Brandston Student Lighting Design Education Grant is now open. This grant was established to encourage and recognize students who have demonstrated exceptional professional promise through the presentation of an original and ingenious solution to a supplied design problem.

The Rocky Mountain Lighting Academy (RMLA) recently announced its 2019 lighting courses, which will be held concurrently June 6-9, 2019.

Provided for full- and part-time faculty, the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Teachers of Lighting Workshop will be held June 2-7, 2019 at the Hubbell Lighting Solutions Center in Greenville, SC. This workshop provides instruction in the design, science, and technology of lighting. The deadline to apply is February 15.

The National Association of Innovative Lighting Distributors (NAILD) recently announced that it will keep the memory of the late industry icon Paul Hafner alive with a memorial scholarship.