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Jun02

Summer Research Begins

Posted on Jun 2 by

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 results, and try it again. We’re excited for all that Amanda, Rylie, Julia, Luz, and Grace will get to do this summer. Stay tuned for updates on our NSF-funded biomineralization work and for info on a new course development projects for forensics using GC-MS and SPME. Finally, how else to start the summer than with Tasty Burger take-out on the quad?! The tater tots were...

May18

High School Teacher Development Opportunity

Posted on May 18 by

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...

May18

Congratulations to 2021 Seniors!

Posted on May 18 by

Congratulations Class of 2021 – especially Gabby Zabala other chemistry major grads! You have achieved so much at Emmanuel College and have an exciting path ahead. You’ve navigated the stationary phase and have eluted with the mobile phase ready for quantitative success! We’ll be here taking care of the LC-MS for you so keep us posted on your high voltage adventures. Dr. Gerdon...

May11

Achievements and Goals – Research Spring 2021!

Posted on May 11 by

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. Our goals are even better: being in the lab with the team, contributing to a new project, completing the next set of experiments, and celebrating completion of the semester! It is this time of year especially that Dr. Gerdon likes to take a moment to thank the research students – Gabby, Rylie, Amanda, Dianna, and Julia (not to mention years of research alumni!) – for all that they do in research. These projects would go no where without their hard work and dedication. Usually this means some pizza a Blaze, a trip to Tasty Burger, or maybe some JP Licks. This year it means a Zoom group picture with slices of pizza on our heads…..so weird…....

Apr15

Congratulations Dr. Samantha Watson!

Posted on Apr 15 by

Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Watson, Emmanuel College and GRAB Lab alumna ’15, on her successful dissertation defense on “A Computationally-Directed Biochemical Characterization of Metabolic Proteins”. Great job Dr....

Apr15

ACS Spring 2021 Conference Success!

Posted on Apr 15 by

Congratulations to Gabby Zabala ’21 on successfully presenting her poster at the Undergraduate Poster Session on Saturday! It took a while to navigate the virtual session experience but the poster looked great and Gabby was ready to talk about her work with fellow researchers. Dr. Gerdon’s talk about chemistry for social justice was also well received in the Chemistry Education division and even had alumni in the...