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Hana Tabit wins 2025 APME Best Poster
Hana Tabit wins 2025 APME Best Poster
As a part of their very first graduate poster presentation, 2nd year candidate Hana Tabit won best poster out of nearly 140 posters at the 15th Advanced Polymers Via Macromolecular Engineering conference. Hana, we are so proud of you!
2025 Departmental Awards
3 From the McDonald Lab win Departmental Awards!
On Tuesday, May 6th, three of our group members won departmental awards.
For the Undergraduates, Chris Sanchez Jr. won the Reade Y. Tompson award for excellence in Undergraduate research, and Olivia Miller won the American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry Excellence in Organic Chemistry Award.
For our graduate student side, 4th year candidate Timea Kolozsvary won the prestigious Vince Wernig Fellowship.
Draper Scholar and New Publication!
Draper Scholar and Publication
Kennalee Orme is one of the newest additions to the Draper Scholars Program a partnership between Draper and Brown University. Kenna is employed at Draper and will continue her studies at Brown and as a member of the Draper team! Congratulations!
Additionally, Kenna and Aiden are co-authors on the newest McDonald publication, a collaborative paper with the Klein Laser Lab at Brown! See our publications tab for the pre-print!
This comes after Kenna and Aiden presented their research at the spring 2025 ACS National Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Congratulations Kenna and Aiden!
Internal SEED Grant and NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
The McDonald and Dawson Labs were awarded one of the 2025 internal SEED awards at Brown for the proposed project that is frontlined by Becca Tobias, using High throughput particle tracking rheology. Becca was also awarded an honorable mention for her 2025 application...
APME Posters 2025
Over the week of May 4th through 8th, the McDonald Lab graduate students Kennalee Orme, Hana Tabit and Becca Tobias presented their research posters at the 2025 Advanced Polymers via Macromolecular Engineering Conference! We are super proud of their work and very...
Congratulations to Kenna!
On April 3, 2025 our incredible electrochemist Kenna successfully defended her research proposal defense. We are super excited to see where Kenna's research continues to grow! "There will be no explanation. There will just be reputation" -Taylor Swift
Congratulations Hana!
We are so proud of Hana successfully defending their research proposal defense on the first day of spring, March 20, 2025. Congratulations and "Bee" proud of yourself!
McDonald Lab Undergrads at NECF 102nd Meeting
On Friday March 7th, two of the McDonald group undergrads (accompanied by G2 member Becca Tobias) attended the 102nd New England Complex Fluids workshop at Yale University. Junior Daniel Xu presented a soundbite talk on his current research progress, and G2 Becca...
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