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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!
Congratulations Becca!
On Monday, March 3, 2nd year Becca Tobias successfully defended her Research Proposal Defense, completing her second PhD Milestone and achieving Candidacy! Congratulations and Yee Haw!
Congratulations Timea
We are so excited to announce Timea’s First First-Author Publication,“The Precise Synthesis of Ultradense Bottlebrush Polymers Unearths Unique Trends in Lyotropic Ordering” Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society! It was no small feat to verify that...
Congratulations Dr. Keane!
We are excited to announce the successful dissertation defense of our first visiting scholar, Daniel Keane. The newly minted Dr. Keane has contributed a substantial amount of time and energy to our group not only through his direct scientific contributions but also...
Group Bon-Fire and BBQ
Earlier in November, members of the lab came together for a bonfire and BBQ hosted by over very own Ben!
2nd Years Passed Literature Review!
As of December 3, 2024, all of the McDonald Lab 2nd years (Tommy, Hana and Becca) have passed their respective literature reviews! Our fantastic 2nd years are now preparing for their Research Proposal Defense slotted for the spring of 2025! From the Graduate Student...
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