Graduating Senior: Patrick Tomhon

This year the graduating seniors presented me with the “Most likely to be mentoring a student in every lab” award. It was very fitting for this group of students because in the summer of 2016, a couple of colleagues approached me to help train students on...

Graduating Senior: Maddie Newkirk

Another graduating senior, Madeline Newkirk, a chemistry major who is headed off to graduate school to get her Ph.D. next year. This is probably one of the hardest posts for me to write. Last year when my first set of students graduated, it was hard: they were...

Graduating Senior: Jessica Kim

Some how we have arrived at April 9th. That means another academic year is almost over (and junior research leave is too! AH) and another set of students are graduating. I feel a special connection with the class of 2018 because I arrived on campus at the same time...

Research Leave – Week 1

Research Leave: a semester pre-tenure where you have no teaching responsibilities, limited service commitments, and can focus on research productivity. I am officially one week into this “research leave”! After some re-configuring of the air handling in my...

A summer of mutations…

…protein mutations. For a couple of projects this summer, the students were tasked to generate mutations of our proteins of interest. For those of you who have produced mutations before, you know that it take a number of steps including primer design, PCR,...