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Getting Crafty!

Getting Crafty!

Posted by on May 5, 2025 in Posts, Student News

Dr. Gerdon’s been hanging out in the Emmanuel College Discovery Lab to craft up some great gear for the seniors! Who needs a beaker mug? Every chemist! Who needs a beaker mug with the GRAB Lab logo? These amazing graduating seniors!

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Seniors, Seniors, Seniors – May 2025

Seniors, Seniors, Seniors – May 2025

Posted by on May 5, 2025 in Posts, Student News

There’s just so much to say about the Seniors! Graduation is just a few steps away, but we’ve been over-busy for the past month finishing up experiments, preparing for final presentations, and passing on knowledge to new researchers. Congrats to… Dennis Nguyen ’25 for his amazing work with gold nanoparticles, size-selective...

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ACS Spring 2025 – San Diego Sunshine, Tacos, and Proud Chemists

ACS Spring 2025 – San Diego Sunshine, Tacos, and Proud Chemists

Posted by on Apr 1, 2025 in Posts, Student News

Congratulations to the entire GRAB Lab team on a very successful, enlightening, and inspiring trip to San Diego for the ACS National Conference. The impressive amount of chemistry can be overwhelming at times but this group of undergraduate researchers did an amazing job sharing their hard work with the chemistry community and the world. We made some...

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Mia Mullen ’25 – A Sticky Situation

Mia Mullen ’25 – A Sticky Situation

Posted by on Mar 11, 2025 in Posts, Student News

After making it through half the spring semester, Mia is making progress with her research. The lipid nanoparticle powder proved to be difficult to work with at first, but after identifying the usefulness of sucrose, the process is slowly coming along. Originally the pure and dry lipid nanoparticles were too sticky and did not grind well into a powder....

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Juan Alejandro ’25 – Y so many changes?

Juan Alejandro ’25 – Y so many changes?

Posted by on Mar 11, 2025 in Posts, Student News

The spring semester is moving fast (faster than expected). Exams are unfortunately beginning, ACS is just around the corner, graduation is approaching, and research is coming along very slowly. Juan has made many changes to the QCM Y-junction set-up, and a pause has been placed on dynamic experiments. Currently, the flow-cell chamber has been removed to...

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