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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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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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