It was amazing to welcome 60 high school chemistry students, along with GRAB Lab alum Dr. Gian Grant, to the Emmanuel College campus today. The students were here to work on their own research projects by making use of the EC Library resources. Diane Zydlewski in the Library walked them through journal article resources and citation styles. The campus tour...
Read MoreMarissa Diplacido ’25 – More and more nanoparticles
As the Fall semester is nearing its end, Marissa has once again been synthesizing more gold nanoparticles, trying new variations of place exchange reactions, purifying, and characterizing her samples. She has found that performing some place exchange reactions have potential to produce what she has been hoping for in her research. She is excited for the...
Read MoreJuan Alejandro ’25 – Tis the season of Research, Fa LALA la la, la la, la la…
The fall semester is so close to being over (only one month left) and yet so much research still needs to be done! Currently in lab, a dynamic solution procedure is being used to study how a dynamic environment would affect mineralization. Juan is using a syringe pump (aptly named LaLa by Jason Miech) to deliver around 1 mL of solution per hour to the...
Read MoreDennis Nguyen ’25 – Finding stability with nanoparticles, research, and classes
Dennis’ senior year has started, but there is still much to do in research! In the beginning, balancing schoolwork and lab work took some time to get used to. However, he has now set a weekly routine to focus on both! He is continuing his work on mineralizing with different-sized nanoparticles and has started attaching DNA to the larger ones. However,...
Read MoreGeorgia Kazis ’27 – Sophomore Start
Georgia just started sophomore year! She is is excited to begin research again after her August hiatus. Right now, she has pivoted back to trying to figure out the DNA origami melt experiments using the qPCR instrument. The goal here is to measure origami and array stability. She is trying a new technique where she purifies the 6HB and then makes the...
Read MoreCelebrate the Summer in a New Fall
The blissful joy of summer research feels like a distant past, but we took time to celebrate all that lab success at the Summer Research Poster Session on October 3rd. Congrats on Georgia, Marissa, Juan, and Dennis on awesome posters and a great poster session. We’re now a month into the Fall semester and the days are flying by as we stay busy with...
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