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Moji Virojanadul ’27 – Halfway There, with help

Moji Virojanadul ’27 – Halfway There, with help

Posted by on Oct 16, 2026 in Posts, Student News

Senior year is flying by, but Moji is keeping up with her research. She is continuing her investigation of the origin of fluorescence in polymeric carbon dots. Building on her summer findings, she is now approaching the next step in the purification method. Instead of dialysis, Moji is using spin filters to separate all of her three pH samples. It is a...

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Georgia Kazis ’27 – New Year, New Project

Georgia Kazis ’27 – New Year, New Project

Posted by on Oct 16, 2026 in Posts, Student News

Georgia has started her senior year and started a new project! After getting published over the summer she has moved away from origami arrays and is instead focusing on origami octahedral cages! She is starting with characterization with all her normal instrumental methods as well as helping to train Luke, a new research student in the group, who will take...

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Emmanuel College – Summer Research Poster Session

Emmanuel College – Summer Research Poster Session

Posted by on Oct 5, 2026 in Posts, Student News

Congrats to Lana, Georgia, Moji, Rob, and Ann-Lee on fantastic work in the lab this summer which led to stunning research posters at the Summer Research Poster Session this weekend. It was great to see faculty, family, and students all gathered around to talk chemistry research. This was great practice for future poster sessions coming up at ACS New...

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Ann-Lee Coriolan ’28 – Locked IN

Ann-Lee Coriolan ’28 – Locked IN

Posted by on Oct 2, 2026 in Posts, Student News

Ann-Lee is diving head first into her academic, research, and professional endeavors! Amongst her classes, she’s excited to continue her Instrumental Analysis course to learn more skills that can translate well into her research. Conducting research over the past two summers has opened up opportunities such as the MIT ACCESS program, that will give a...

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Lana Dang ’28 – New classes and new developments

Posted by on Oct 2, 2026 in Posts, Student News

It feels like classes just started, but junior year has already gone into full swing for Lana. She has been very excited to experience new courses, labs, and, of course, to get back into research! While the end of summer provided her with some new developments in the QCM project, there are still so many more experiments to do and data to collect. Despite...

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Summer Research Fun 2026

Summer Research Fun 2026

Posted by on Jul 23, 2026 in Posts, Student News

Another summer of research is coming to a close, but not before we reach some important milestones. Our team of high school student researchers from Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School – Donnie, Melannie, Isabela, and Lee – did amazing work last week and shared their successes, challenges, and fun in their end-of-week presentations. Congrats and...

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