We Won The Global Freezer Challenge!

Our institution won the 2018 International Freezer Challenge! University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked first world-wide by saving ~282,600 kWh’s on chilling up freezers, defrosting, consolidating units, etc. Way to go Illinois! https://www.freezerchallenge.org/award-winners-2018.html

There will be a picture of members of the UIUC participating labs including the lab of Dr. Jessica Brinkworth in the October 25, 2018th edition of Nature. For more information about the International Freezer Challenge, please refer to the link below: https://www.freezerchallenge.org/the-challenge.html

Update: Freezer Challenge Photo

Here is a photo of all the UIUC labs involved in the Freezer Challenge Competition. This picture will be published in Nature in October 2018. Here is a link to the U of I Facilities and Services News page: http://fs.illinois.edu/resources/newsroom/2018/08/06/u-of-i-wins-freezer-challenge

I am standing on the left side of the picture.

Nature Magazine; October 25, 2018

Finally, the link to the winner lab photos on Nature: Nature Photo Link

Don't forget to register this year! UIUC now has a website designed specific for this! Check out my photos there :)

https://freezerchallengeui.wixsite.com/freezerchallenge