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The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award to Barbara Horton, FIALD, CLD, founding principal at HLB Lighting Design.

Many of you know I have a second career writing fiction, with books published by major publishers like Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and Blackstone. My latest, THE AVIATOR, is a military thriller that takes you aboard a modern aircraft carrier and into the cockpit of an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter.

Today, the Illuminating Engineering Society announced its Executive Director, Timothy Licitra, has accepted a new Executive Director position at an engineering association based in the New York Metropolitan Area.

Lytei produced a series of seven short videos about legendary lighting designer Howard Brandston. You’ll learn about his life and loves as well as advice about lighting design.

Ted Konnerth, PhD recently joined Merrimack Group as Managing Director to assist electrical industry companies with mergers, acquisitions, and investment capital.

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.

Effective July 1, 2019, Jennifer Jaques assumed the office of President of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), and Antonio Garza the office of Vice President (President-Elect).

Forty-year-veteran lighting designer Kevan Shaw of Kevan Shaw Lighting Design recently received the first LIT Lifetime Achievement Award.

The National Lighting Bureau recently announced that John Bachner, Founder and Executive Director, is retiring after 43 years.