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Ann-Lee Coriolan ’28 – Seems Like There’s a HEATWAVE!

Ann-Lee Coriolan ’28 – Seems Like There’s a HEATWAVE!

Posted by on Oct 27, 2025 in Posts, Student News

Ann-Lee is starting her first Fall semester incorporating research into her school life. After having a productive summer, there’s only a few more experiments left to wrap up the current nanoparticle research segment. Whilst she thinks about more data that could be incorporated into a future publication, she has been exploring different types of...

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Lana Dang ’28 – Fall (Spring?) Cleaning

Lana Dang ’28 – Fall (Spring?) Cleaning

Posted by on Oct 27, 2025 in Posts, Student News

With her sophomore Fall semester in full swing, Lana is definitely experiencing all the highs and the lows that come with doing research during the school year. It is a challenge to find time for lab when classes are so busy. From her work this summer, she learned the importance of keeping her QCM (Quartz Crystal Microbalance) setup squeaky clean to obtain...

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Georgia Kazis ’27 – Evaporation Exasperation

Georgia Kazis ’27 – Evaporation Exasperation

Posted by on Oct 14, 2025 in Posts, Student News

Georgia is starting her junior year at Emmanuel College and another semester of research. While juggling her classes and responsibilities during the semester she is finishing up her last experiments for the project to be published! She has won the battle against evaporation for her IR experiment with a new set up with more water. Mineralization reactions...

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Emmanuel Open House and cool chromatography

Emmanuel Open House and cool chromatography

Posted by on Oct 6, 2025 in Posts, Student News

This past weekend of an Open House at Emmanuel for interested high school students to check out all that Emmanuel College has to offer. A few students, including Lana, helped out Dr. Ahmad and Dr. Gerdon in a chromatography activity for the families. The paper chromatography was pretty simple, but gave insight into the TLC, gel electrophoresis, or LC-MS...

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Welcome Back and Summer Research Poster Session

Welcome Back and Summer Research Poster Session

Posted by on Oct 6, 2025 in Posts, Student News

It seems like the State of the Project reports at the end of the summer, and the food safari through Boston and Brookline, was just yesterday. Now we’re already into October and the Fall semester is cruising along. So, welcome back to all chemists and researchers! Our semester is going really well with an expanded group – Gwyn has joined us to...

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