Welcome to the 2026 cohort of Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) scholars! This year, we are hosting four scholars across UC Berkeley, Cornell and Yale. Scott Krajewski (University of Puget Sound) will be mentored by Yiran Zhang (graduate student, Miller Lab). Helen Ngo (Evergreen Valley… Read More »C-GEM welcomes sixth cohort of summer undergraduates
On Tuesday, C-GEM researchers—Vincent Chim (graduate student, UC Berkeley), Helena Roberts-Mataric (graduate student, UC Berkeley), Izzi Piper (graduate student, UC Berkeley), and Qi Xie (postdoc, UC Berkeley)—participated in Community Resources for Science’s (CRS) Bay Area Scientists Inspiring Students (BASIS) program. C-GEM partnered with CRS to… Read More »C-GEM brings polymer science to Bay Area elementary schoolers
Left to Right: Adrienne Garcia (SURP/PREC scholar, Francis lab), Emma Lawler (SURP scholar, Schepartz lab), and Nikki Angelisanti (undergraduate, Schepartz lab). Two weeks ago, Nikki Angelisanti (undergraduate, Schepartz lab) and Emma Lawler (SURP scholar, Schepartz lab) attended the 2025 ACS Western Regional Meeting in San… Read More »C-GEM undergraduates present their research at conferences
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