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Julia Japo ’23 – Collagen and QCM

Posted by on Jun 25, 2021 in Posts, Student News

Julia is so excited to be back in the lab for the summer! It is her first time doing summer research on campus. Julia has started running collagen and mineralization QCM experiments with the two sets of instruments that are in the lab. She is planning on continuing these experiments, and hopefully start incorporating new mineralization solutions. She is...

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Rylie Bolarinho ’22 – Best friends with a spectrophotometer!

Posted by on Jun 15, 2021 in Posts, Student News

Rylie is very excited to be back in the lab full-time this summer! Rylie has begun working on the calcium carbonate project for GRAB Lab and has been spending her time running affinity experiments. For these experiments, Rylie is becoming best friends with our spectrophotometer as she measures absorbance for each sample. She is happy to be learning how to...

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Amanda Gilbert ’22 – First Summer in the Lab

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

Amanda is so excited to be back in the lab for summer research! After some lab clean-up and literature research, Amanda was able to start running more affinity experiments with DNA and collagen hydrogels. She has also done some planning for the rest of the summer. She has lots of experiments lined up, which means their will be a lot of data to analyze! So...

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Summer Research Begins

Posted by on Jun 2, 2021 in Posts, Student News

It is amazing to see students and faculty back to work in summer research! The distractions of a full set of courses during the semester are gone and now is the time for students to immerse themselves in research projects. Students can eat, sleep, drink, and dream research! But, then take a nice walk around the Fens to clear your head, reflect on the...

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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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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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