May 31, 2024

Thank you to the DEVCOM Soldier Center in Natick for hosting the 2nd Annual National Defense Education Program (NDEP) STEM Student Networking Meeting. This was a great opportunity to connect with other local graduate/undergraduate students and DOD scientists in the Synthetic Biology community! We cannot wait to continue contributing to this mission this upcoming school year!

 

April 30, 2024

Today we celebrated our senior design team who presented their capstone project “Characterizing Ovarian Cancer Exosomes with SERS” in front of the entire Bioengineering Department, family, and friends. These four students, Olivia Collins (Team Leader), Andrew Medeiros, Trinity Cozby, and Benjamin Pimenta (Feat. L to R) demonstrated superb teamwork and it was a pleasure working with them this semester!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 20, 2024

Jordan Pagliuca, Parthiv Ravikumar, Jillian Wilson, and Nathaniel Keighly in attendance and presenting posters at the ASEE Northeast Regional Conference held at Fairfield University this past weekend!

 

 

April 4, 2024

This week, UMass Dartmouth held our annual 3-Minute Thesis Competition, allowing students the chance to hone their academic, presentation, and research communication skills. Beginning on Tuesday, Andrew Medeiros swept the undergraduate round of competition, progressing to the final round and taking home 1st Place AND the People’s Choice Award! On the graduate side, Jordan Pagliuca and Jillian Wilson progressed to the Final Round and Jillian came home with 3rd Place overall! This was a great event sharing ongoing research in a clear and succinct way, congrats to all and can’t wait for next year!

 

 

December 14, 2023

So glad we were able to get everyone together for an end of semester celebration! Cheers to Fall 2023!

 

November 14, 2023

Congratulations to Jordan Pagliuca on a huge program milestone, successfully defending her Dissertation Proposal entitled “Peptide Nanotube Reinforced Hydrogels for Neural Cell Culture” today!

 

October 14, 2023

Quick weekend trip with Janice Rullan down to North Carolina for the NanoImpacts 2023 event hosted by the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering in collaboration with the U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center!

 

May 11, 2023

A HUGE congratulations goes out to our lab graduates from the Class of 2023, Grace Pelletier, Jean-Luke Arevalo, and Alecsander DaSilva (Feat. L to R) who have each received their Masters’ Degrees this past weekend! Thank you for your tireless work, positive energy, and endless ambition this past year and best of luck in your future endeavors!

 

April 20, 2023

Jordan Pagliuca got some sun this week, traveling to San Diego to present her poster at the Society for Biomaterials Spring Conference! She is coming back with a tan and lots of new ideas gained from networking!