TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY (TCU), CENTER FOR LIGHTING EDUCATION,
demt.tcu.edu/centers.asp
In 2009, after 35 years of service, Fred Oberkircher, founding director of the center, retired and Laura E. Prestwood was named the new director. Oberkircher was instrumental in recruiting Prestwood to TCU in 2002 to ensure the continuation and growth of the program. During the Fall 2009 semester, Mary Cheek, a junior majoring in interior design and minoring in lighting for visual presentation, received an IALD Education Trust Student Activity Stipend to attend the 2009 IALD Enlighten Conference in Sonoma, Calif. During the 2010 Spring semester, lighting minors enrolled in “Special Problems in Lighting” worked with local domestic violence shelter, SafeHaven of Tarrant County, to design a lighting solution for their affiliated resale store and parking lot. During the 2010 Fall semester, lighting minors enrolled in “Lighting for Visual Presentation” designed a lighting installation for the TCU Megalith. The project culminated in a light show on Nov. 11.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO–BOULDER,
http://ceae.colorado.edu/dept/?i=grad-building-systems
Todd Gibson, a master’s student in lighting within the Building Systems Program, was a recipient of the Robert J. Besal Fund Scholarship Award. During the Fall 2010 semester, the lighting program hosted LightPlay at the IALD Enlighten Americas 2010 Conference, held in Westminster, Colo., a lighting design charrette where students create design projects under the guidance of practitioners. Thirty students from all over the country visited the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus to work on their projects. This year the students created videos that explored different aspects of light. The videos were presented during the president’s opening reception at the IALD Conference. Eight students received scholarships from the IALD Education Trust to attend the IALD Enlighten Americas 2010 Conference. The first Litecontrol Scholarship was awarded to Heidi Kasemir, a senior undergraduate student.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT LINCOLN,
http://engineering.unl.edu/specialty-units/durhamschool
Eric Rushenberg received a Besal Lighting Education Fund Scholarship for the 2010–2011 academic year. Giang Nguyen received the 2010 Jules Horton International Scholar Award from the Nuckolls Fund. Starting Fall 2010, Yulia Tyukhova will begin her M.S. in Architectural Engineering with a lighting focus with support from a Fulbright Grant. She received her B.S. and M.S. in lighting engineering from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute Technical University. Tyukhova along with Andrew Wiese received stipends from the IALD Education Trust to attend the 2010 IALD Enlighten Conference. Faculty member Clarence Waters was promoted to a full professor. The University of Nebraska at Lincoln received a 2010 Nuckolls Fund Grant for $50,000 to develop and deliver a project called “Lighting Across the [Design] Curriculum.” This is a series of teaching modules, from both teaching and learning perspectives, that are purposeful in the development of curricula across the disciplines within the building industries at the University of Nebraska, Miami University, Kansas State University, and the University of Texas at Austin.
