Robert W. Thunen Memorial Scholarship
Scholarship Sponsored by Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
Applications for the Thunen Memorial Scholarship may be submitted by full-time students who desire to study illumination as a career. Applications for the Thunen Memorial Scholarship may be made by those who will be an undergraduate junior, senior, or graduate student (Fall semester only) in an accredited four-year college or university located in Northern California, Nevada, Oregon, or Washington (the late Mr. Thunen’s business territory). Graduate applicants must be undertaking a lighting-centered project as part of work towards a graduate degree.
$1000-5000 scholarship for:
- Third- or fourth-year undergraduate student in lighting-related studies.
- Graduate students with lighting-related studies.
- Special consideration for specific projects or Grad students working toward a thesis about light or lighting.
- Fields related to lighting architecture, electrical engineering, interior design, theater, film/TV, lighting design, vision, or a field clearly related to lighting.
- Students must be enrolled in school in Northern California, Northern Nevada, Oregon, or Washington state.
Submission Requirements:
In addition to an application, applicants shall submit a Statement of Purpose with respect to the applicant’s lighting education and arrange for at least three letters of recommendation, at least one of which shall be from someone involved with lighting professionally or academically.
Applications and letters of recommendation should be submitted before the annual April deadline. It is expected that the selected Thunen Scholars for each year will be announced no later than mid-May of each year.
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