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Lighting Competitions, Scholarships, and Grants
Although lighting is a specialized field, there is a generous offering of student lighting design competitions, as well as awards, scholarships, and grants for students and educators alike that facilitate a variety of educational opportunities.
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Educational Beginnings
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LRC Awards ASSIST Scholarship
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center (LRC) has awarded its 2007-08 ASSIST Scholarship to Tianming Dong, a third-year Ph.D. student at the LRC. ASSIST (Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies) is a consortium of researchers, manufacturers, and government...
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What Students Want
Off-campus student housing is a growing niche market. Students want to be around other students, yet still feel they have a respite from campus.
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Philly Student Wins Luraline Design Competition
The winner of Luraline's sixth-annual "It's Your Light" student design competition is Philadelphia University architecture student Bryan Giroux for his entry, a sculpture of light called "Flux". The wall-mounted LED fixture delivers controllable indirect light dispersion and a small amount of...
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IESNY Announces Winners of Student Design Competition
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2007 Solar Decathlon Participants Announced
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Light of Tomorrow
Paying tribute to daylight, the 2006 International Velux Award encourages students of architecture to discuss, simulate, and rethink daylight in a role in which it is not merely moderated by the architecture, but becomes a crucial primary aspect of the design. 'Light of Tomorrow,' the theme of the...
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Back to school
Fall means back to school. A trio of lighting education and research facilities have recently opened and reopened their doors.
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Solar Decathlon
Eighteen student teams design and build sustainable case-study homes on the National Mall in Washington, as part of a Department of Energy-sponsored comptetition.