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Fall 2025 – Awards Abound!

Posted by on Nov 5, 2025 in Posts, Student News

Congratulations are in order for awesome research students in the GRAB Lab! Congrats to Gwyn Gagnon ’26 for winning the Best Poster Award for the entire Gamma Sigma Epsilon conference that took place in Pennsylvania in October. Congrats to Ann-Lee Coriolan ’28 for being selected as a co-recipient of the Catherine McLaughlin Hakim ’70...

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Noah Carreiro ’26 – First Semester of Research

Noah Carreiro ’26 – First Semester of Research

Posted by on Nov 5, 2025 in Posts, Student News

This fall marks Noah’s first semester conducting research in the lab, and it’s been an exciting learning experience so far! Recently, he’s been focusing on studying the demineralization process of mouse teeth using lactic acid or EDTA (ethylenediaminetetracetic acid) and confirming the results through infrared (IR) spectroscopy. By comparing the IR spectra...

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Gwyn Gagnon ’26 – Spooky Spectroscopy!

Gwyn Gagnon ’26 – Spooky Spectroscopy!

Posted by on Nov 3, 2025 in Posts, Student News

As midterms have come to an end, Gwyn is in full swing in the lab! After a few weeks of trial and error, she has finally found a synthesis method for carbon dots that producing samples that emit different colors of light. Very soon she hopes to separate these carbon dots into their different colors. Gwyn is excited to continue working in the lab towards...

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