The spring semester is moving fast (faster than expected). Exams are unfortunately beginning, ACS is just around the corner, graduation is approaching, and research is coming along very slowly. Juan has made many changes to the QCM Y-junction set-up, and a pause has been placed on dynamic experiments. Currently, the flow-cell chamber has been removed to...
Read MoreDennis Nguyen ’25 – inching closer
After a super busy Holiday season, Dennis is back and ready for a busy research semester! The ACS Conference is inching closer, but there are still lots of things he wants to do to add to his poster. He is getting back to calcium phosphate mineralization experiments after a break from that to focus on synthesizing stable and larger nanoparticles. The...
Read MoreGeorgia Kazis ’27 – Floating Science
The beginning of spring semester has begun! Georgia has a packed semester but is also excited to get back into research after the break. She is trying a new method for visualizing her DNA arrays that involves floating a TEM (transmission electron microscopy) grid on solution in a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tube that contains her reactants. She is...
Read MoreWelcome to 2025 and a new Spring Semester!
This post is a bit overdue, but Happy New Year and welcome to research in our Spring 2025 semester. Group meetings started back up last week and we have an amazing group of researchers – Marissa, Dennis, Juan, Mia, and Georgia – moving forward in the lab this semester. We also have lots of interest from first, second, and third year students...
Read MoreHappy Hippo Holiday from the GRAB Lab!
Congrats to Juan, Marissa, Georgia, and Dennis on an awesome semester of research. We had amazing achievements and we have even bigger goals for the Spring, including a successful ACS conference, DITF, graduation, and more. We’re excited that Noah and Mia also got into the lab for some awesome experiments and that lots of new students are thinking...
Read MoreHigh School Chemists from Notre Dame Cristo Rey visit Emmanuel College
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...
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