Georgia is starting her junior year at Emmanuel College and another semester of research. While juggling her classes and responsibilities during the semester she is finishing up her last experiments for the project to be published! She has won the battle against evaporation for her IR experiment with a new set up with more water. Mineralization reactions...
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This past weekend of an Open House at Emmanuel for interested high school students to check out all that Emmanuel College has to offer. A few students, including Lana, helped out Dr. Ahmad and Dr. Gerdon in a chromatography activity for the families. The paper chromatography was pretty simple, but gave insight into the TLC, gel electrophoresis, or LC-MS...
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It seems like the State of the Project reports at the end of the summer, and the food safari through Boston and Brookline, was just yesterday. Now we’re already into October and the Fall semester is cruising along. So, welcome back to all chemists and researchers! Our semester is going really well with an expanded group – Gwyn has joined us to...
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The GRAB Lab group teamed up with Dr. Lau’s group for an exciting and fun-filled final week of research. We made the most of Boston by going on an adventurous food safari, sampling Korean corn dogs, Texas tacos, bubble tea, local pizza, and fresh-made ice cream. It amounted in a great city walk and good eats! Today, the summer projects paused for us...
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Two amazing high school students from Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School spent a week as part of the research team in the Gerdon and Lau labs in Chemistry at Emmanuel College. It was a great experience for the HS students and our undergraduate researchers to participate as students and teachers – we learned a lot from each other this week, built our...
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After much trial and error with the QCM (Quartz Crystal Microbalance) flow cell design, a finalized set up has been achieved! With this new set up, Lana has been able to complete her dynamic mineralization control experiments and is moving on to experiments with DNA aptamers. Hopefully, things continue to run smoothly and comparisons between the aptamers...
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