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Dennis Nguyen ’25 – Finding stability with nanoparticles, research, and classes

Dennis Nguyen ’25 – Finding stability with nanoparticles, research, and classes

Posted by on Oct 23, 2024 in Posts, Student News

Dennis’ senior year has started, but there is still much to do in research! In the beginning, balancing schoolwork and lab work took some time to get used to. However, he has now set a weekly routine to focus on both! He is continuing his work on mineralizing with different-sized nanoparticles and has started attaching DNA to the larger ones. However,...

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Georgia Kazis ’27 – Sophomore Start

Georgia Kazis ’27 – Sophomore Start

Posted by on Oct 16, 2024 in Posts, Student News

Georgia just started sophomore year! She is is excited to begin research again after her August hiatus. Right now, she has pivoted back to trying to figure out the DNA origami melt experiments using the qPCR instrument. The goal here is to measure origami and array stability. She is trying a new technique where she purifies the 6HB and then makes the...

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Celebrate the Summer in a New Fall

Celebrate the Summer in a New Fall

Posted by on Oct 4, 2024 in Posts, Student News

The blissful joy of summer research feels like a distant past, but we took time to celebrate all that lab success at the Summer Research Poster Session on October 3rd. Congrats on Georgia, Marissa, Juan, and Dennis on awesome posters and a great poster session. We’re now a month into the Fall semester and the days are flying by as we stay busy with...

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Untrappable! Research Summer 2024

Untrappable! Research Summer 2024

Posted by on Jul 31, 2024 in Posts, Student News

This group of research students is undaunted, unphased, and untrappable – either by Boston escape rooms or by tricky experiments. Together as a team, we conquered the evil witch and conquered unruly experiments. Juan, Marissa, Dennis, and Georgia did amazing work in the lab this summer, collected a huge amount of data, made great progress on these...

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Georgia Kazis ’27 – Loving Research! (and more atomic forces)

Georgia Kazis ’27 – Loving Research! (and more atomic forces)

Posted by on Jul 25, 2024 in Posts, Student News

Georgia has been loving research! Her first summer has been going by really fast, but she has made some good progress. She has been imaging with AFM (atomic force microscopy) a lot and the instrument seems to like her more these past few days. She has also been working on her state of the project presentation. It has made her look back on all of her...

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Juan Alejandro ’25 – Feeling Atomic Forces

Juan Alejandro ’25 – Feeling Atomic Forces

Posted by on Jul 25, 2024 in Posts, Student News

Summer research is almost done (even though it feels like it just started)! Juan is currently conducting his last experiments of the summer, working on his distinction in the field proposal, and the state of the project write-up. This summer has been so busy, and much has been done!  Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been used to image multiple samples,...

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