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Georgia Kazis ’27 – Floating Science

Georgia Kazis ’27 – Floating Science

Posted by on Feb 4, 2025 in Posts, Student News

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...

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Welcome to 2025 and a new Spring Semester!

Welcome to 2025 and a new Spring Semester!

Posted by on Jan 28, 2025 in Posts, Student News

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...

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Happy Hippo Holiday from the GRAB Lab!

Happy Hippo Holiday from the GRAB Lab!

Posted by on Dec 9, 2024 in Posts, Student News

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...

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High School Chemists from Notre Dame Cristo Rey visit Emmanuel College

High School Chemists from Notre Dame Cristo Rey visit Emmanuel College

Posted by on Nov 20, 2024 in Posts, Student News

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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Marissa Diplacido ’25 – More and more nanoparticles

Marissa Diplacido ’25 – More and more nanoparticles

Posted by on Nov 18, 2024 in Posts, Student News

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...

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