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Showing posts with label laboratories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laboratories. Show all posts

Monday, December 5, 2016

WIN.CHEM volunteers work with local high school students

WIN.CHEM volunteers work with local high school students

Since 2014, our department has been running laboratory sessions and department tours for high school students from around Windsor and Essex County - this program is known as WIN.CHEM.  Students participate in interactive laboratories featuring work on cryogens, thermodynamics, chemical reactions and kinetics, combustion, and metals and alloys.  

Our graduate students and undergraduate volunteers make these outreach laboratories possible.  

If you are an undergraduate student in the Chemistry, Biochemistry or Chemistry & Physics programs, and are planning on taking the 59-410 Research and 59-400 Development of Leadership, Outreach and Presentation Skills courses, you can volunteer for this rewarding program.

If you are a high school student or teacher, please contact Prof. Jim Green (jgreen@uwindsor.ca) to arrange a visit to UWindsor to take part in our interactive WIN.CHEM laboratories.  For more information, click here!


Max Nascimento, '18, does some liquid nitrogen demonstrations for students from Villanova High School
Mitchell Dipasquale, '17, discusses miscibility with some students.
Lucas Foster,' 18, and Adan Ahmed, '17, demonstrate the dehydration of sugar with sulphuric acid.
Max Nascimento, '18, is not doing anything illegal here... he is just eating some graham crackers that have been dipped into liquid nitrogen.
Special thanks to all WIN.CHEM volunteers: Chris O'Keefe and David Hirsh (co-coordinators), Cameron Vojvodin, Natan Veinberg, Lucas Foster, Austin Peach, Jacqueline Gemus, Max Nascimento, Brent St Onge, Abbey Nicoletti, Jesse Ropat, Adan Ahmed, Mitchell Dipasquale, and Nadia Stephaniuk.

Special thanks to Chris O’Keefe, David Hirsh, and Stas Veinberg (Ph.D. 2016), who have been instrumental in organizing and running the WIN.CHEM sessions for the past three years.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

New Canadians learn about science by smashing, squishing and stirring



A group of 40 young newcomers to Canada participated in our WIN.CHEM interactive laboratories on March 16, 2016.

Click here to check out the full story in the Windsor Star!

Thanks to our graduate and undergraduate students, David Hirsh, Chris O'Keefe, Emilia Iacobelli  Emilyn Anderi, Leslie Hernandez, Pablo Bulit, Nadia Stephaniuk, and Alex Stirk (pictured below) who participated in arranging and conducting this event!

We welcome visits and participation in our interactive laboratories from high school students and youth groups from around Windsor and Essex County!  If you would like to visit our department and enjoy the interactive laboratories, click here for more information.



Wednesday, July 22, 2015

New GA/TA teaching positions posted - Application Deadline August 7, 2015

There are new GA and TA Fall 2015 Job Postings for Fall 2015 available at:

http://www1.uwindsor.ca/chemistry/chemistry/chemistry/chemistry/ga-and-ta-summer-2015-job-postings

Applications must be submitted to: Beth Kickham in Essex Hall, Room 275-D.
Deadline for receiving applications is: Friday, August 7th, 2015 at 4:30pm or until positions have been filled.