Three C-GEM students received travel awards to attend the 2023 National Diversity in STEM conference from October 26-28 in Portland, Oregon: Jared Balsz (SURP undergraduate, University of New Mexico), Isaac Garcia (undergraduate, UC Berkeley), and Hana Kang (undergraduate, UC Berkeley). Isaac and Jared presented posters… Read More »C-GEM attends NDiSTEM, undergraduate Isaac Garcia wins poster prize
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.
Congratulations to Carly Schissel (postdoc, UC Berkeley) who won a poster award for presenting her work at the 2022 Chemistry and Biology of Peptides GRC!
Congratulations to Meghan Pressimone (graduate student, UC Berkeley) for being awarded the Curci PhD Scholarship! This Scholarship is awarded by the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation to provide scholarships and living expenses for the first two years of a student’s PhD in the life sciences.
Professors Mark Walker and Yi He at the University of New Mexico were awarded an inaugural Partnerships for Research and Education in Chemistry (PREC) grant by the NSF to collaborate with C-GEM. This grant will allow C-GEM to broaden participation of students served by the… Read More »UNM professors Mark Walker and Yi He awarded NSF partnership award with C-GEM
We’re excited to announce that Héctor Torres Vera has been named one of 51 2022 HHMI Gilliam Fellows! Héctor is a rising third year graduate student in the Schepartz Lab at Berkeley. In addition to their research, they are an Editor and contributor to the… Read More »Graduate student Héctor Torres Vera named 2022 HHMI Gilliam Fellow
Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Stone, a postdoc in Michelle Chang’s group at UC Berkeley, who was just awarded a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund postdoctoral fellowship! The JCC Fellowship provides up to three years of support for research projects focused on the basic biology and… Read More »Dr. Stone awarded Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund postdoctoral fellowship
C-GEM graduate student Diondra Dilworth was awarded first place in the Yale Three Minute Thesis competition this year! Diondra is a fourth year graduate student in the Miller Lab at Yale. Her talk was titled The Ribosome: Modifiable Machine – A Chemist’s Approach. Check it… Read More »Graduate student Diondra Dilworth wins Yale 2022 3 minute thesis contest
Graduate student Héctor Torres Vera has been named a 2022 NSF GRFP Fellow. They are a second year in the Schepartz Lab at UC Berkeley. Héctor joins current C-GEM GRFP fellows Diondra Dilworth, Leah Roe, and Taylor Dover. Congratulations!