LRC Director Mark Rea to take Academic Sabbatical

Mariana Figueiro, LRC Light & Health Program Director, named Acting Director.

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The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has announced that Dr. Mark Rea, Director of the LRC will take an academic sabbatical for the upcoming fiscal year, effective July 1, 2016. According to the press release, during his sabbatical, Rea will work on “…developing two new LRC initiatives, the Glenn W. Bailey Memorial Fellowship, which supports activities that integrate the business of lighting into the education of graduate students at the LRC, and a program related to plant pathology and horticultural lighting. He will also continue to work on existing funded research projects, such as Warning Beacons for Front Line Service Worker Safety.”

During Rea’s sabbatical period, Dr. Mariana Figueiro, current LRC Light & Health Program Director, will serve as Acting Director. Figueiro has been with the LRC for the past 20 years, since she was a graduate student in the LRC’s Master of Science in Lighting program. After graduation she served as staff scientist. In 2004 she obtained her Ph.D. from RPI and in 2006 she was offered a tenure-track position as an assistant professor. In 2014 she was promoted to full professor.

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Mariana Figueiro

Figueiro is a leading expert in the area of light and health. Her research has been published widely and she has spoken at several leading conferences such as TEDMED bringing the topic of light and health issues to a broader public audience. This year, she was an invited speaker and panelist at the National Institutes of Health Workshop and presented on the subject of Shift Work at Night, Artificial Light at Night, and Circadian Disruption. She is also a principal investigator for several research projects within the LRC, including grants from the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the General Services Administration and the Office of Naval Research.

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Elizabeth Donoff is Editor-at-Large of Architectural Lighting (AL). She served as Editor-in-Chief from 2006 to 2017. She joined the editorial team in 2003 and is a leading voice in the lighting community speaking at industry events such as Lightfair and the International Association of Lighting Designers Annual Enlighten Conference, and has twice served as a judge for the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section’s (IESNYC) Lumen Award program. In 2009, she received the Brilliance Award from the IESNYC for dedicated service and contribution to the New York City lighting community. Over the past 11 years, under her editorial direction, Architectural Lighting has received a number of prestigious B2B journalism awards. In 2017, Architectural Lighting was a Top Ten Finalist for Magazine of the Year from the American Society of Business Publication Editors' AZBEE Awards. In 2016, Donoff received the Jesse H. Neal Award for her Editor’s Comments in the category of Best Commentary/Blog, and in 2015, AL received a Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Media Brand (Overall Editorial Excellence).Prior to her entry into design journalism, Donoff worked in New York City architectural offices including FXFowle where she was part of the project teams for the Reuters Building at Three Times Square and the New York Times Headquarters. She is a graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Me., and she earned her Master of Architecture degree from the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.

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