Education + Resources

The Lighting Controls Association’s Education Express, the online platform for free, instant, 24/7 education about lighting controls, now offers for a majority of courses downloadable one-page summary sheets students can download, print, and use as a quick reference.

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Light and Health Research Center (LHRC) is running two concurrent online educational programs starting in September 2021.

The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) honored Daniel Reinhard, MS in Lighting, at the Lighting Research Center (LRC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI); Hsin-Ying Huan, MFA Lighting Design from Parsons the School of Design; and Bobby Bradley, Master of Professional Studies in Lighting Design at the New York School of Interior Design (NYSID), on June 23, 2021 when they presented their winning theses to a virtual audience of educators, students, and lighting professionals. The IESNYC awarded each recipient $2,000.

The Illuminating Engineering Society’s New York City (IESNYC) section recently announced the winners of the 2021 Student Lighting Competition (SLC).

The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City (IESNYC) has selected two graduate students – Katrina Matejcik, a candidate in the MFA Interior Design and Lighting Design programs at Parsons School of Design at the New School (Parsons) and Dianna Osickey, a candidate in the MPS Lighting Design (MPSL) program at the New York School of Interior (NYSID) – as recipients of the 2021 IESNYC Merit Scholarship. Each student will receive an award of $25,000.

The Illuminating Engineering Society recently announced that registration is open for Light for Life, a global conversation about the impact of light on the lives of humans, plants, and animals. For this event, IES will host webinars over the course of three days the week culminating in the International Day of Light (16-May) with partner organizations from around the world.

The University of Colorado Boulder has established a new professional graduate certificate in architectural lighting.

LIGHTFAIR recently announced it will offer a new lighting professional mentorship program in the spring of 2021.

Lighting design firm Nulty has published a series of worksheets that very effectively teach young children about light.