Events

Welcome To Their World
Eight simple rules for lighting specifiers when they sit down with the folks in IT By Scott Ziegenfus

DOE Announces Up to $15 Million for Early-Stage SSL Research
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $15 million to conduct early-stage, innovative research to drive further breakthroughs in solid-state lighting (SSL) technology.

LRC’s Mark Rea Chair Task Group Developing Circadian Lighting Recommended Practice
Mark S. Rea, Professor of Architecture and Cognitive Sciences at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has agreed to chair a task group with Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

Kansas City Convention Center Converts to LED
The Kansas City Convention Center has retrofitted all exhibit hall lighting by installing 850 new LED fixtures.

Our Work Is Done Here
The law of diminishing returns catches up to our energy codes. So what’s next? By James Benya

An Idea Blossoms
An R&D giant’s three businesses consolidate within a single headquarters that rejects the traditional notion of laboratory design. By Paul Tarricone

Speakers from Pixar and Sony to Keynote Lightfair
Danielle Feinberg of Pixar Animation Studios and Neri Oxman of Sony Corporation and MIT Media Lab will deliver keynote presentations at LIGHTFAIR International 2018.

LFI Program Features Seven Tracks and 70-Plus Courses
The 2018 LIGHTFAIR conference program includes more than 70 courses within seven educational tracks, for a total of more than 190 educational hours.

The Impact Speakers: Form, Function, Fashion
Designers Martin Lesjak and Anastasia Su are the 2018 LIGHTFAIR “Impact Speakers.”

Nixon’s New Perspective
A dramatic visual story at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum helps visitors examine a controversial legacy. By Vilma Barr

Alley of the Arts
A lighting revamp morphs a century-old pathway into a work of art By Katie Nale

Long-Term Performance in the Arizona Desert
An update on the Yuma pilot project findings By Andrea Wilkerson

Is Apple’s Night Shift Enough?
The Lighting Research Center (LRC) has published the results of a study investigating the effectiveness of Apple’s Night Shift for lessening the impact of nighttime iPad use on melatonin suppression,…

A Capitol Comes Around
With LED sources in new and refurbished fixtures, the seat of Minnesota’s government shines again. By Samantha Schwirck

In A World Without Codes
With every last watt being squeezed out of lighting, will codes even be needed? By Willard Warren
