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The Emmanuel College community gathered on a beautiful morning on May 11th to celebrate the Commencement of our senior class. Congratulations to all the Chemistry Majors graduating this year. We are proud of you for all of your hard work, determination, and drive. You are wonderful...
Congratulations to Karissa Mehrtens ’19 on successfully defending her senior distinction thesis on Distinction Day, April 25th, 2019 at Emmanuel College. Karissa presented beautiful work on “Investigating the Mechanism of DNA Cleavage by EcoRI using Single Molecule Methods”. After graduation, Karissa will be continuing in the “4+1” program at Emmanuel College to earn her Masters of...
Internships abound this summer for many Emmanuel College Chemistry Majors. Several students will be on campus over the summer engaged in research with faculty, including Alex Gousie working with Dr. Michelle Watt, Zack Zaleskas working with Dr. Allen Price, and Stephanie Colon and Alex Paige working with Dr. Aren Gerdon. Emily Pelletier will be on campus working with lab management. Additionally, two Emmanuel Chemistry Majors have been accepted into impressive internship research programs off campus. Elisabeth Lablue, a sophomore chemistry major, will be interning at Merck Research Labs in Boston. Natalie Silva, a first year chemistry major, will join a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU)-funded program Kansas State University. Elisabeth wanted to share that, “I have recently been accepted to become a 2019 MRL Chemistry intern at Merck Research Lab. I am very excited to work with others who have the same ideas and passions as I do. Research has always been very interesting to me, so being able to take part in creating and discovering new things, is an amazing opportunity. The MRL Chemistry summer internship...
On Wednesday April 3rd, 2019, Chemistry and Physics faculty, students, and alumni gathered in the new residence hall to welcome the new chemistry majors, discuss the different career paths in chemistry, and celebrate the success of alumni out in the real world. Emmanuel College’s Class of 2014 Victoria Perrone was the key note speaker. Victoria is a Chemistry Instructor and Director of Student Life at Boston University Academy. She discussed the different paths to becoming a teacher, as well as her journey to become a chemistry teacher. She shared the importance of teaching and the joys that come along with it. Victoria talked about one of her favorite projects that her students present throughout the year in the classroom. The project includes picking a topic of interest such as a sport, a favorite movie, or an everyday used product, and connecting/relating chemistry to that topic of interest. After Victoria’s presentation, students and faculty discussed with alumni their current jobs, research, and education. The Chemistry and Physics department would like to thank the Chemistry Club for organizing the event and alumni for coming back...
Fantastic news for the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Emmanuel College. We have recently gotten approval to offer an American Chemical Society (ACS)-certified major! This is an awesome opportunity for students to earn a degree that is distinctly Emmanuel while being stamped by the ACS as being a top-notch chemistry...
Keith Baillargeon ’16, a third year graduate student in the Chemistry Department at Tufts University, visited campus today to give a presentation to the Analytical Chemistry class on his graduate thesis research. Keith’s presentation, “Methods for Blood Preparation and Analysis using Paper-based Devices”, gave insight into a new paradigm in Analytical Chemistry, focusing on low-cost, on-device sample preparation and analysis that could be used in point-of-care or in-field analysis. Keith’s presentation was enthralling and the students had many questions about Keith’s data, public health in the US, and graduate school in general. It is wonderful to have such great...