Accolades: August12, 2002

Peping Dee, a graduate student in the Lighting Research Center's M.S. in lighting program, has won a $3,000 scholarship from the International Association of Lighting Designers Education Trust Fund. These scholarships support students pursuing architectural lighting design as a course of study. Applicants are judged on grades, extracurricular activities, an essay about a personal experience with lighting, and supporting artwork. Dee's essay discusses light as an architect's tool and how he hopes one day to integrate architecture and lighting into a single practice. 8/12/02

Faye Duchin, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of economics, gave a lecture titled "Economic Development in the 21st Century" to the North American Youth Science Leadership Institute in the Monongahela National Forest, Elkins, West Virginia, July 30. The Institute is a two-week intensive immersion in science and leadership for 75 young scientists from the United States, Mexico, and Canada. 8/12/02

Lighting Research Center (LRC) staff members presented six papers at the recent International Society for Optical Engineering conference on solid-state lighting, held July 9-11 in Seattle, Wash. Nadarajah Narendran, director of research, and Lei Deng presented "Color Rendering Index for LED Light Sources"; Ramesh Raghavan and Narendran presented "Refrigerated Display Case Lighting with LEDs"; Insya Shakir and Narendran presented "Evaluating White LEDs for Outdoor Lighting Applications"; John Van Derlofske, head of transportation lighting, and Michele McColgan presented "White LED Sources for Vehicle Forward Lighting"; Feng Zhao, Narendran, and Van Derlofske presented "Optical Elements for Mixing Colored LEDs to Create White Light"; and Patricia Rizzo, Andrew Bierman, and LRC Director Mark Rea presented "Color and Brightness Discrimination of White LEDs." 8/12/02