Mississippi State Interior Design program receives national lighting grant

Mississippi State’s Interior Design program is receiving a grant from the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education.

Assistant Professor Robin Carroll, principal investigator for the $30,000 grant, said the money will be put toward a new course, “Historic Lighting Environments,” that will broaden the outreach for the lighting design minor and be offered as part of the Master of Fine Arts in Historic Preservation curriculum.

Carroll said the grant not only provides instruction and research for this new course but also helps create more hands-on learning opportunities through the purchase of lamps and lighting equipment and support for field trips to historical sites.

This is the third grant Carroll has received from the Nuckolls Fund—the first was in 2015 to start the lighting certificate, and the second was in 2019.

The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, established in 1988, supports college-level programs that inspire students to learn, appreciate and apply the basics of lighting and design in architecture.