Gerdon Research Group Blog

Analytical and Biomaterials Undergraduate Chemistry Research

Navigation Menu

Grace Sanpietro ’22 – SPME and octane

Posted by on Oct 27, 2021 in Posts, Student News

Grace is excited to be back in the research lab this Fall to continue work from her summer internship. She will continue with Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME) and GC/MS analysis of ignitable molecules to continue developing methods and an in-house reference library of these molecules. Her first experiment back was completing the SPME analysis of octane...

Read More

Summer Research Poster Session

Posted by on Oct 2, 2021 in Posts, Student News

Congrats to Grace, Luz, Julia, Rylie, and Amanda on their fantastic presentations at the Summer Research Poster Session on Thursday. Everyone did amazing work this summer and turned it into great poster presentations for the College-wide event. The students were tasked with explaining their research to chemistry professors alongside first year students in...

Read More

GRAB Lab visits area high school

Posted by on Oct 1, 2021 in Posts, Student News

This summer the team had the great opportunity to work with Esther Hines, high school chemistry teacher at Billerica Memorial High School. Esther came to campus, joined our group, and engaged in exciting research involving calcium phosphate mineralization and gold nanoparticles. This fall we got to change the experience by visiting Esther and her students...

Read More