With her sophomore Fall semester in full swing, Lana is definitely experiencing all the highs and the lows that come with doing research during the school year. It is a challenge to find time for lab when classes are so busy. From her work this summer, she learned the importance of keeping her QCM (Quartz Crystal Microbalance) setup squeaky clean to obtain...
Read MoreGeorgia Kazis ’27 – Evaporation Exasperation
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...
Read MoreEmmanuel Open House and cool chromatography
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...
Read MoreWelcome Back and Summer Research Poster Session
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...
Read MoreSummer 2025 Research Success!
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...
Read MoreNotre Dame Cristo Rey and Emmanuel team up for research adventure
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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