Murdoch Retires from Nuckolls Fund Board and Shrum Joins

	Joseph B. Murdoch and Glenn Schrum, The Nuckolls Fund

Professor emeritus Joseph B. Murdoch has retired from the board of directors of The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education after 20 years of dedicated service. Formerly chairman of the University of New Hampshire's electrical engineering department, he developed and directed its lighting program for over two decades.

Professor Murdoch, who is a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and a past president of the organization, participated in the development of the Teachers of Lighting Workshop which is presented biannually by IESNA. He is the author of three books and 35 papers on lighting and lighting design.

Lighting designer and educator Glenn Shrum has been named to fill the vacancy on The Nuckolls Fund Board of Directors as a result of professor Murdoch's retirement. He is principal of Flux Studio Ltd., Baltimore, Maryland, and an assistant professor of lighting design at Parsons the New School for Design, New York.

Shrum is a previous recipient of a $20,000 Nuckolls Fund grant to develop and teach a four-year introductory lighting program at the Maryland Institute College of Art from 2004-2008. His course, Lighting Concepts and Applications, was part of the undergraduate program of the environmental design department. He is a frequent speaker on lighting and lighting as art, and is a member of the IESNA and the International Association of Lighting Designers.

The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education was founded in 1989 in honor of the late lighting designer and educator, James L. Nuckolls. To date, The Nuckolls Fund has given a total of $845,000 for the advancement of lighting education in North America.

Additional information about The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education can be found on www.nuckollsfund.org. Posted on the site in the educational resources section are seven individual teaching modules, "Lighting Across the Design Curriculum," funded by a $50,000 Nuckolls Fund 20th anniversary grant. Another teaching module, "Lighting Controls -- Tools for Teaching," is also available on the Nuckolls Fund website, developed by a Nuckolls Fund Edison Price fellowship grant.

Proposals are solicited annually by The Nuckolls Fund for innovative educational ideas to advance the understanding of light in architecture. In 2013, $70,000 for lighting education grants and awards was presented at its annual luncheon held at Lightfair International. For further information, contact Jeffrey A. Milham, President of The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, at jeffmilham@aol.com.