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Old friends and new friends

Posted by on Jul 15, 2026 in Alumni, Posts, Student News

It has been an exciting week in the GRAB Lab! On Monday, we welcomed new friends to the group – a fantastic group of four high school students from Notre Dame Cristo Rey high school, led by Dr. Gian Grant. Melannie, Donnie, Isabella, and Lee are learning about chemistry research with Dr. Ahmad, Dr. Lau, and Dr. Gerdon and are especially working with...

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Publication! Congrats to Georgia and Hailey!

Publication! Congrats to Georgia and Hailey!

Posted by on Jul 8, 2026 in Alumni, Posts, Student News

Congrats to Georgia Kazis and Hailey Young and the entire GRAB Lab research team on our new publication in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering! It was a lot of fun to return to work with DNA origami and to make practical use of it in preparing heirarchical structures for calcium phosphate mineralization. Great work by two exceptional researchers....

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Congratulations GRAB Lab Grads of 2024!

Congratulations GRAB Lab Grads of 2024!

Posted by on May 29, 2024 in Alumni, Posts, Student News

Saturday, May 18th brought a beautiful and celebratory commencement exercise to campus at Emmanuel College! It also brought to an end a wonderful and productive research experience for these four amazing GRAB Lab seniors. Congrats to Donalissa, Kristy, Sydney, and Hailey! You brought tremendous enthusiasm for chemistry, nanoparticles, collagen, origami,...

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Dr. Gerdon and Science Fair Season

Posted by on Feb 9, 2024 in Alumni, Posts

Dr. Gerdon got to spend an awesome afternoon at Notre Dame Cristo Rey Academy with Dr. Gian Grant’s sophomore chemistry classes. It’s Science Fair time and these students had great projects on really interesting topics. All had clear testable questions and exceptional experimental design focusing on at least three parameters and each in triplicate. The...

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Congrats to Dr. Jason Miech ’18 – NASA Post-doctoral Fellow!

Posted by on Oct 5, 2023 in Alumni, Posts

Congrats to Dr. Jason Miech ’18 once again for the successful defense of PhD thesis in Chemistry in the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University. Now there’s more exciting news that Jason will be starting a Post-doctoral Fellow program at NASA to continue his work in air quality assessment. Congrats Jason!

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