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Jul05

Katerina Luarasi ’17 – Setting Sails!

Posted on Jul 5 by

A nice balance of work and fun is needed to make sure the ship sails smoothly! Team Gerdon takes a trip out to George’s Island and Spectacle Island for the day. We got a history lesson, heard a ghost story, and climbed a really old heap of...

Jun27

Jason Miech ’18 – Printing in 3D

Posted on Jun 27 by

Researcher Jason Miech takes advantage of the Colleges of the Fenway consortium to use Wentworth Institute of Technology’s 3D Printers to design and build a new and hopefully improved QCM...

Jun15

Jack Florek ’17 – Encouraging freshmen

Posted on Jun 15 by

The research group represents at the Chemistry Club poster for freshman orientation, attempting to spark interest in the sciences among incoming freshmen.

Jun15

Katerina Luarasi ’17 – Research powered by donuts

Posted on Jun 15 by

On National Donut Day, senior Katerina Luarasi and junior Krista Meserve went to get a donut to get their research juices flowing! The key to research success is filling in the (donut) holes and having fun while doing...

Jun07

Aimee Sanford ’16 – Joins the CDC team

Posted on Jun 7 by

Congrats to Aimee Sanford ’16 on graduation, earning Distinction in the Field, and on starting her internship this summer at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Aimee plans to show off her analytical chemistry skills!...

Jun03

Krista Meserve ’18 – Projects on the side

Posted on Jun 3 by

Week three of summer research and us researchers on Team Gerdon are going strong. A lot of exciting experiments are being carried out and new equipments are being constructed by the researchers each day. I have created a plan of experiments to carry out this summer, but have to wait for the plate reader instrument to be fixed. In the mean time, I have started a side project to (hopefully) confirm that our DNA aptamers are inside the hydroxyapatite crystals!...