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High School Teacher Development Opportunity

Posted by on May 18, 2021 in Posts, Student News

Do you know a fantastic Boston-area high school chemistry teacher? My research group has National Science Foundation funding to support professional development for a high school teacher. That means – join our group this summer, get in the lab, learn some new chemistry, and get paid for...

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Congratulations to 2021 Seniors!

Posted by on May 18, 2021 in Posts

Congratulations Class of 2021 – especially Gabby Zabala other chemistry major grads! You have achieved so much at Emmanuel College and have an exciting path ahead. You’ve navigated the stationary phase and have eluted with the mobile phase ready for quantitative success! We’ll be here taking care of the LC-MS for you so keep us posted on...

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Achievements and Goals – Research Spring 2021!

Posted by on May 11, 2021 in Alumni, Posts, Student News

The GRAB lab gathered for the last group meeting of the semester to reflect on research achievements, to congratulate Gabby on graduation, and to make some new goals for the coming summer! Some achievement highlights include: designing new experiments, learning new instruments, helping new research students along, and simply getting into the lab in-person....

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Congratulations Dr. Samantha Watson!

Posted by on Apr 15, 2021 in Alumni, Posts

Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Watson, Emmanuel College and GRAB Lab alumna ’15, on her successful dissertation defense on “A Computationally-Directed Biochemical Characterization of Metabolic Proteins”. Great job Dr. Watson!

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ACS Spring 2021 Conference Success!

Posted by on Apr 15, 2021 in Alumni, Posts, Student News

Congratulations to Gabby Zabala ’21 on successfully presenting her poster at the Undergraduate Poster Session on Saturday! It took a while to navigate the virtual session experience but the poster looked great and Gabby was ready to talk about her work with fellow researchers. Dr. Gerdon’s talk about chemistry for social justice was also well...

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Julia Japo ’23 – Learning QCM

Posted by on Apr 8, 2021 in Posts, Student News

Julia has performed her first experiment in the lab! She conducted a sucrose density experiment and learned how to use the QCM instrument that she will continue to use over the summer during research. Julia is excited to continue conducting experiments, learning new techniques, and get her project up and running!

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