SBFC 2024

The Brace Lab was well-represented at the 46th Symposium on Biomaterials, Fuels and Chemicals (SBFC) hosted by the Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIMB) in Alexandria, VA. Boston College Engineering students Isabella Doyle, Bennett Lewis, Gillian Mohr (freshmen), Will Rice, and Claire Richter (sophomores) were all able to go thanks to partial support from the EngineeringContinue reading “SBFC 2024”

New article on course-based undergraduate research

I am pleased to share that a new article I co-authored is out today in the journal Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBEd). This article is about how we implemented a course-based undergraduate research experience in ABE 226 at Purdue University: a laboratory course with ~64 students, sophomores to seniors, predominantly biology and biological engineeringContinue reading “New article on course-based undergraduate research”

PhDone

Despite working from home from March – June 2020, I was able to successfully defend my dissertation on June 22 and my dissertation deposit was accepted on June 24! And as a bonus, one of my dissertation chapters is hot off the press in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering this month! I appreciate all theContinue reading “PhDone”