High schoolers Kristen Kretschmann and Sophia Kauffman produced the Best Quality winner in the National Crystal Growing Competition.
Kailee Tait, Tyson Bergen, and Owenn Flaming, 10th graders at Leamington District Secondary School, won the Best Quality award at Canada’s 2022 National Crystal Growing Competition.
Growing a crystal is no simple task. But one high school team from Leamington grew a crystal so fine it won the Best Quality award at Canada’s 2022 National Crystal Growing Competition.
Students from Windsor and Essex County high schools worked with chemistry professor Nick Vukotic and Faculty of Science experiential learning specialist Michelle Bondy in preparation for the national competition.
Members of chemistry professor Nick Vukotic’s research group pose with an instrument panel signed by Proto and UWindsor staff involved in the build (from left): Anton Dmitrienko, Dr. Vukotic, Michelle Dao, Melissa Berberi, Madeleine Chang, Joy-Lynn Kobti, and Ali Baranbo.
Crystals grown by Windsor high schoolers placed in the top 10 in a national competition.
Researchers in UWindsor’s Centre for Hybrid Automotive Research and Green Energy work on a state-of-the-art EV electric motor test system that will be used to conduct next-gen electric vehicle research.
Funding for an industry-academia collaboration will drive innovation in electric vehicle technology.
Nicholas Vukotic is UWindsor’s new Industrial Research Chair in X-ray Diffraction and Crystalline Materials.
Nicholas Vukotic is UWindsor’s new Industrial Research Chair in X-ray Diffraction and Crystalline Materials.
Nick Vukotic poses with Proto Manufacturing’s benchtop powder X-ray diffraction system.
Soon after taking up graduate study, Nick Vukotic was drawn into sessions brainstorming a problem that had eluded his advisor Stephen Loeb—and others around the world—for years. Dr. Vukotic’s design solution led to a cover article in Nature Chemistry that is now ranked as the most-accessed article of May 2012 in any chemistry journal.
Nick Vukotic poses with PROTO Manufacturing’s new benchtop AXRD powder X-ray diffraction system, which takes up a fraction of the space of previous equipment. Photo credit: JCasey Media
A post-doctoral fellow is splitting his time between a campus research group and a company that provides X-ray diffraction analysis systems.
