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New Semester, New Adventures

Posted by on Sep 22, 2022 in Alumni, Posts, Student News

The students of GRAB Lab are a few weeks into the new academic year and are already starting to get back into the lab. The relaxed days of summer research are over and now we are full speed on new courses, new chemistry, and new research experiments. The whole crew – Julia, Ryan, Kristy, and Hailey – is back along with Hunter who is joining us...

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Professor of Chemistry

Posted by on Sep 1, 2022 in Alumni, Posts

I am very happy to report that Sr. Janet, the Board of Trustees, fellow Faculty, Administrators, and Alumni have promoted me to Professor at Emmanuel College! I don’t feel that I would be at this point in my career, sharing in and promoting the mission of the College and the mission of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, sharing chemistry social justice...

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Floating the Charles

Posted by on Jul 28, 2022 in Posts, Student News

The group took to the Charles River for a float and a paddle to celebrate a successful summer. It was a beautiful afternoon and we had a great time taking in the views, narrowly missing sail boats, honking at Duck Boats, and not falling in. Chemistry research happens in the lab and out of the...

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Kristy Ta’23 – Soaking in (the sun) the calcium phosphate

Posted by on Jul 26, 2022 in Posts, Student News

Kristy’s first summer research was such an informing and unique experience! She learned about new instruments and even came up with her own experiments to run in the future! With guidance from Dr. Gerdon, and the creative juices flowing, lots of things got done this summer! All the experiments had their ups and downs but there was never a time where there...

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Hailey Young ’24 – Making the most of research

Posted by on Jul 20, 2022 in Posts

After taking off the week of the Fourth to visit family and friends, Hailey is back in the lab and ready to pick up where she left off. She is continuing to perform plate reader experiments to determine the effect of DNA origami on calcium phosphate mineralization as well as visualizing the origami structures via AFM imaging. This Monday was the GRAB lab’s...

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