Welcome to the 2025 cohort of Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) scholars! This year, we are hosting five scholars across UC Berkeley and Yale. Jacqueline Buenviaje (University of New Mexico) will be mentored by Dr. Alexandra Kent (postdoctoral scholar, Cate Lab). Adrienne Garcia (University of… Read More »C-GEM welcomes fifth cohort of summer undergraduates
Congratulations to C-GEM SURP alumna Anika Accomando for winning a travel award to attend ABRCMS! She presented a poster on the research she did over the summer in Senior Investigator Scott Miller’s lab, mentored by Taylor Dover (graduate student, Yale).
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!
Three C-GEM undergraduates attended the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ARBCMS) in Phoenix, AZ on November 15-18. Hana Kang, Isaac Garcia, and Bryan Hsu — all from the Schepartz lab at Berkeley — received travel awards to support their attendance at the conference.… Read More »C-GEM students attend ABRCMS, Bryan Hsu wins presentation prize
Cameron Paloutzian won a “Best Professional Poster” at the Out in STEM conference in Anaheim, CA last weekend. Cameron joined C-GEM as a postbac scholar in the Schepartz Lab at Berkeley in June. She is C-GEM’s inaugural Postbaccalaureate Research and Education Fellow and will spend… Read More »Postbac Cameron Paloutzian wins best professional poster at oSTEM
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
This week, Managing Director Sarah Smaga attended the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) conference in New Orleans, LA. In addition to connecting with new and old colleagues, Dr. Smaga advertised opportunities at C-GEM for undergraduates, postbacs, and postdocs, and served as… Read More »C-GEM attends the 2023 NOBCChE Conference in New Orleans
This summer, C-GEM hosted our largest cohort of Summer Undergraduate Research Program Scholars yet! We hosted ten scholars at five C-GEM institutions: Berkeley, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Minnesota, and Yale. SURP students hailed from across the United States, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Puerto Rico, and California.… Read More »C-GEM hosts third cohort of summer undergrads
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
Congratulations to C-GEM’s first-ever cohort of summer research students! These eight women spent their summer working with graduate students and postdocs on virtual research projects, which you can read more about here: The Future of the Ribosome and its Role in the Future of the… Read More »C-GEM completes inaugural Summer Research Program