Kathleen Kash

Crystal IS, Inc. manufactures ultraviolet light emitting diodes. Its products include TO-39 ball lens and flat window. Its LEDs are integrated into customers’ products to sterilize and disinfect water, air and surfaces in a variety of applications. The company was founded by Leo Schowalter and Glen Alfred Slack in March 1997 and is headquartered in Green Island, NY.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society operates as an organization for liberal arts and science education. The non-profit company is based in Washington.

Great Lakes Crystal Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in creating cost-effective high-performance diamond materials for advanced applications. The company is based in East Lansing, MI. The potential for diamond to outperform all other semiconductor materials for a broad range of electronic device applications has been long understood by scientists and engineers due to its fundamental properties. GLCT's mission is to provide a source of these materials, and it was started as a spin-out of the collaboration between Michigan State University and the Fraunhofer USA Center for Coatings and Diamond Technologies. The company was founded in 2019 by Timothy Grotjohn and Keith R. Evans, who has been the CEO since then.