 |
| Design
of Lighting for Indoor Agriculture Nets Grad Students Scholarship Money |
 |
| Chris Anderson and Ryan
Miyakawa, graduate students at the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV)
Science and Technology, were part of a team of students from University
of California, Berkeley who won the Meltwater Scholarship Program Award
for entrepreneurship in 2008 with a design based on their knowledge of
optics and engineered systems. UC Berkeley is a partner institution
in the EUV, which is an NSF-funded Engineering Research Center (ERC) headquartered
at Colorado State University. Chris Anderson was the team leader.
Anderson’s team developed
a lighting system to promote indoor agriculture as a means to combat soaring
food prices and to increase agricultural yields. The team developed
a cost-effective lighting system that emits the most efficient light for
photosynthesis. “We treated the plant as a customer—looked at what
colors are used for photosynthesis and tried to figure out exactly what
the plant needed,” Anderson told the Daily
Californian newspaper in late 2008. He went on to tell the
newspaper, “We're looking into collaborating in terms of testing with several
different people at UC Berkeley and we're hoping to team up with them.”
The design was chosen from
a pool of more than 120 applicants and seven finalists in a program to
finance sustainable innovations. Their efforts were recognized with
a $30,000 scholarship from the Meltwater Scholarship Program. The
scholarship money no doubt will help Anderson and Miyakawa further their
research and studies, but will also give them confidence that they can
use their knowledge to develop innovations with real societal and business
benefits. |
To learn more
about this topic visit:
ERC
for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology (ERC EUV)
 Return
to previous page
|
|
 |
| Chris Anderson, a graduate
student at the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Science and Technology,
standing at center holding a (fake) check, led a team that was awarded
$30,000 in scholarship money for winning a contest to design sustainable
innovations. |
|
|
