On Wednesday, C-GEM talked to Dr. Diondra Dilworth and Dr. Lee Bishop, both chemists who’ve both found careers away from the bench. Dr. Dilworth is a Science Advisor working with patent lawyers at Goodwin Procter LLP, and Dr. Bishop is the Biotech & Design Lead… Read More »Recap: C-GEM chats careers with scientists in patent law and museum education
Congratulations to Chintan Soni (graduate student, Boston College) for winning the Best Poster Award at the 2024 Bioorganic Chemistry Conference GRC!
Welcome to the 2024 cohort of Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) scholars! This year we are hosting eight scholars across six C-GEM labs on the University of California Berkeley, University of Minnesota, Yale, and Cornell campuses. Our SURP students hail from California, New York, and… Read More »C-GEM welcomes the fourth cohort of summer undergraduates!
C-GEM Executive Director Sarah Smaga represented the scientific community with 24 other ASBMB members to advocate for supporting and funding basic science research in Washington D.C.. Smaga and others met with elected officials and their staffers to stress the importance of research funding. Read more… Read More »C-GEM represents on Capitol Hill
C-GEM has hired Jennifer Poo as the Education and Outreach Manager. The EO manager oversees the implementation and evaluation of existing C-GEM programs and contributes to the development of new programming. Programming includes externally focused community outreach as well as internal programs for C-GEM members.
Vincent Chim (graduate student, UC Berkeley) was named a 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Jess Vance (post-baccalaureate, UC Berkeley) and Adrianna Hudmya (graduate student, U Minnesota) were both given honorable mentions. Congratulations, everyone! Our blog features advice from 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellow Leah Roe… Read More »C-GEM students receive NSF graduate research fellowship and honorable mentions
Congratulations to Leah Roe (graduate student, UC Berkeley) for winning the ACS Women Chemists Committee Merck Research Award to present her research at an awards symposium during the 2024 Fall ACS meeting.
Congratulations to Eva Gerber (graduate student, UC Berkeley) who was awarded the BioEnginuity Impact Grant! The grant provides support to doctoral students in the final two years of their graduate schooling.
C-GEM’s Director and PI Alanna Schepartz was named an Arc Institute Innovation Investigator. This award provides $1 million in unrestricted funds over the course of five years as well as access to Arc Institute’s state of the art facilities and additional resources.
Congratulations to Jacob Robbins (postdoc, Yale) for winning a poster award at the 48th National Organic Chemistry Symposium.