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Summer 2025 Research Success!

Summer 2025 Research Success!

Posted by on Jul 25, 2025 in Posts, Student News

The GRAB Lab group teamed up with Dr. Lau’s group for an exciting and fun-filled final week of research. We made the most of Boston by going on an adventurous food safari, sampling Korean corn dogs, Texas tacos, bubble tea, local pizza, and fresh-made ice cream. It amounted in a great city walk and good eats! Today, the summer projects paused for us...

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Notre Dame Cristo Rey and Emmanuel team up for research adventure

Notre Dame Cristo Rey and Emmanuel team up for research adventure

Posted by on Jul 18, 2025 in Posts, Student News

Two amazing high school students from Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School spent a week as part of the research team in the Gerdon and Lau labs in Chemistry at Emmanuel College. It was a great experience for the HS students and our undergraduate researchers to participate as students and teachers – we learned a lot from each other this week, built our...

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Lana Dang ’28 – Trial, Error, and Progress

Lana Dang ’28 – Trial, Error, and Progress

Posted by on Jul 15, 2025 in Posts, Student News

After much trial and error with the QCM (Quartz Crystal Microbalance) flow cell design, a finalized set up has been achieved! With this new set up, Lana has been able to complete her dynamic mineralization control experiments and is moving on to experiments with DNA aptamers. Hopefully, things continue to run smoothly and comparisons between the aptamers...

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Georgia Kazis ’27 – High Humidity and Higher Hopes

Georgia Kazis ’27 – High Humidity and Higher Hopes

Posted by on Jul 7, 2025 in Posts, Student News

Georgia can’t believe summer research is halfway through already! There has been great progress with TEM imaging, but she is still trying to troubleshoot IR, fluorescence, and AFM analysis. She has currently DIYed her own humidity chamber so she can do mineralization on the IR, and it seems to be going well. Although the heat is rising in the city, Georgia...

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