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LESA Participates in Panel at the New York State Capitol
Representatives from RPI’s Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) Center participated in a recent panel discussion held by the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York or CICU at the State Capitol to inform legislators on the importance of on-going State sponsored funding for higher education in New York. […]
3MT® Competition Winner Doctoral Candidate @LESA
LESA doctoral candidate Prachi Sharma (’18) who placed first in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition held as part of RPI’s 2nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium in 2017, has gone on to place 2nd at the Northeastern Association Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) regional 3MT® -automatically qualifying her for inclusion in the national competition in Washington, D.C., to be held in December.
Greenhouse Lighting Research Helps Shape Future Farming @LESA
LESA Senior Researcher and plant physiologist Tessa Pocock was asked to participate as an expert on greenhouse lighting in a recent panel discussion for agricultural business owners and local farmers hosted by New York Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner. The ‘Ag-Tech Roundtable’ was part of a larger initiative aimed at creating an open dialog of finding solutions to modern agriculture problems affecting crop production, efficient and sustainable farming methods, best-practices and industry insights.
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Researchers Solve LED Packing Problem @LESA
LESA Center Director Robert Karlicek proposed a challenge: Find a way to produce large sheets of precisely oriented unpackaged LEDs without having to pick up and place each one at a time. […]
Transforming Healthcare and Wellbeing Through Lighting @LESA
LESA and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) sponsored a workshop in 2016 to explore pathways to define and promote the adoption of lighting systems specifically for healthcare environments. The aim was to initiate an important dialog among stakeholders on the changes in modern healthcare interior lighting applications, and subsequent white paper detailing the outcomes and contributions of the workshop participants.
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LESA Director Dr. Robert Karlicek Explores Lighting and IOT in IES Article
To read the article, click here.
LESA Center cited in Indoor AgTech article
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LESA Director Dr. Robert Karlicek interviewed on The Health Hub ‘The Role Lighting can Play in Improving Health Outcomes’
To listen to the broadcast, click here.
To review the Health & Wellbeing paper referenced, click here.
Dr. Tessa Pocock’s research featured in Photonics Media
To read the piece, ‘The McCree Demystified’, click here
LESA Doctoral Candidate Prachi Sharma Featured on ERC Website
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