As Noah begins his final semester of senior year, he continues to build on the research skills and experiences he developed last semester in the lab. Currently, he has been working on preparing tissue samples for thin sectioning using a microtome, a crucial step for examining demineralized samples under fluorescence ... read more

Ann-Lee is taking a small break from mineralization experiments for the semester in order to learn about a new project! Gwyn has been teaching her all she needs to know about carbon-nano dots. This week they've performed such an easy microwave-based synthesis! In the future, we hope that we find ... read more

After a rejuvenating winter break, Lana was eager to get back into her chemistry classes and labs this semester. The other research students seem to feel the same, as everyone has been jumping straight into new projects, whether that be an experiment or making DIY lab decor. Lana is especially ... read more

Happy New Year from the GRAB Lab! The whole group is back at it to continue working on experiments this semester, to prepare for the ACS conference in Atlanta, and for end of year celebrations. Georgia is getting back into research, even through epic Boston snow storms. After submitting our ... read more

The entire research team took a well-earned break to end the semester with the time-honored tradition of a trip to Tasty Burger! It was a working lunch - Dr. Gerdon, per usual, made sure everyone shared three successes of the semester and three goals for next semester. We also enjoyed ... read more

Micro-credentialing is a recent method for instilling skills into students and workers to ensure that they are prepared for the field they are trying to enter. It was my duty to create a protocol using micro-credentials that could test students' knowledge in gas chromatography mass spectrometry. A mixture with a ... read more

Congratulations are in order for awesome research students in the GRAB Lab! Congrats to Gwyn Gagnon '26 for winning the Best Poster Award for the entire Gamma Sigma Epsilon conference that took place in Pennsylvania in October. Congrats to Ann-Lee Coriolan '28 for being selected as a co-recipient of the Catherine ... read more

This fall marks Noah’s first semester conducting research in the lab, and it’s been an exciting learning experience so far! Recently, he’s been focusing on studying the demineralization process of mouse teeth using lactic acid or EDTA (ethylenediaminetetracetic acid) and confirming the results through infrared (IR) spectroscopy. By comparing the ... read more

As midterms have come to an end, Gwyn is in full swing in the lab! After a few weeks of trial and error, she has finally found a synthesis method for carbon dots that producing samples that emit different colors of light. Very soon she hopes to separate these carbon ... read more

Ann-Lee is starting her first Fall semester incorporating research into her school life. After having a productive summer, there's only a few more experiments left to wrap up the current nanoparticle research segment. Whilst she thinks about more data that could be incorporated into a future publication, she has been ... read more

With her sophomore Fall semester in full swing, Lana is definitely experiencing all the highs and the lows that come with doing research during the school year. It is a challenge to find time for lab when classes are so busy. From her work this summer, she learned the importance ... read more

Georgia is starting her junior year at Emmanuel College and another semester of research. While juggling her classes and responsibilities during the semester she is finishing up her last experiments for the project to be published! She has won the battle against evaporation for her IR experiment with a new ... read more

This past weekend of an Open House at Emmanuel for interested high school students to check out all that Emmanuel College has to offer. A few students, including Lana, helped out Dr. Ahmad and Dr. Gerdon in a chromatography activity for the families. The paper chromatography was pretty simple, but ... read more

It seems like the State of the Project reports at the end of the summer, and the food safari through Boston and Brookline, was just yesterday. Now we're already into October and the Fall semester is cruising along. So, welcome back to all chemists and researchers! Our semester is going ... read more

The GRAB Lab group teamed up with Dr. Lau's group for an exciting and fun-filled final week of research. We made the most of Boston by going on an adventurous food safari, sampling Korean corn dogs, Texas tacos, bubble tea, local pizza, and fresh-made ice cream. It amounted in a ... read more