May18
Posted on May 18 by
Summer is here and research is back! It feels good to put the school year behind us and to focus firmly on the experiments ahead. We have a great group of experienced returning researchers along with some new additions to the group. Welcome to Georgia, Lana, Ann-Lee, Rob, and Moji! We are going to make a great team this summer. We started the summer offer with lunch from Bennett’s with the Lau Group and the Ahmad Group and then, per tradition, had our giant poster-sized paper airplane competition. What a great way to take flight with research! Stay tuned for more great research updates this...
Apr30
Posted on Apr 30 by
Who needs a beaker mug with the GRAB Lab logo? The seniors do! We want to send a huge thank you to Gwyn, Ellie, Noah, and Donald for their leadership, contributions, and guidance in research, chemistry, and life this semester. You have been awesome and you’re now off to exciting new adventures across the country. This group of seniors is going far and wide and staying true to Boston to cover all corners of this country. Thank you and...
Apr30
Posted on Apr 30 by
Congrats to all members of the GRAB Lab – experienced professionals and new members of the group – on awesome success this academic year. You’ve all worked hard to move research projects forward, learned some great chemistry, and had fun along the way. A special congrats to Gwyn Gagnon who presented her Distinction in the Field work and Elizabeth Vanhille on her end-of-semester internship...
Apr10
Posted on Apr 10 by
As Gwyn returns from ACS Spring 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia, she is reminiscing on the great talks she went to, the connections she made, the communicating science she did, and the places she visited. Her favorite destination in Atlanta, besides the conference center, of course, was the Georgia Aquarium, where she met a real-life otter! Returning from Atlanta is bittersweet as she begins to wrap up her undergraduate career by prepping for distinction, but knows she’s onto the next part of her journey to a Ph.D. in chemistry! She is extremely grateful for her experience in the GRAB lab as it really was an otter this world...
Mar27
Posted on Mar 27 by
The GRAB Lab had an amazing time at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta this week. We had Gwyn and Georgia as seasoned veterans presenting at their second conference and Lana and Ann-Lee making it their first conference. All four did an amazing job at the conference, learning about a wide range of chemistry, networking and making connections, and presenting their own research work to interested chemists. We represented mineralization, nanoparticles, DNA technology, and QCM chemistry awesomeness! Gwyn and Georgia both presented at Sci-Mix in addition to their regular session and Georgia came away with a poster award in the Colloids and Surface Science (COLL) division. We also had a great time partnering with Dr. Lau, Maddie, and Lauren for fun at the conference, the aquarium, and delicious Korean...
Mar27
Posted on Mar 27 by
In her final semester at Emmanuel, Ellie has been analyzing carbon dots synthesized from a mixture of urea and citric acid by teammate Gwyneth Gagnon. Ellie is working to understand the method of best separation for liquid chromatography, to gain knowledge about the properties of the carbon dots, such as size and polarity. Soon, she will run another synthesis of carbon dots that used ethylenediamine and then work on analysis using the LC-MS in negative polarity. Ellie’s LC-MS instrument is pictured here! She’s running reversed phase separations with an ESI-single quad mass...
