We had a lively and productive group of high school and undergraduate students working across various labs during the summer of 2024.Here are some photos capturing the highlights of our amazing crew!

Connor Engels, Ben (Mali) Miller, Patrick Pridemore, Gabe Patrick, Fatoumata Dabo, Savanna Hayes-Bogle, Sena Asia, Ty'Naesia Harris

End of Summer Presentation

We had fun with research summer 2023 and learned about our own research projects and others. What an experience and of course live long friendships were established! Thank you for your enthusiasm REU, ACS seed and the team leaders!

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Uyen Dao

Uyen Dao finished her associate degree at the Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. She worked in collaboration with Fiona Wasson and Chloe Lu in Gudmundsdottir Laboratory. Her research was focused on identifying which aryl azido crystals are stable enough to be photopatterned. By analyzing the crystal structures of the starting materials, she could identify the factors that made them stable, and that the photoproduct played an important role in protecting the crystals from reacting further. Her research gave her opportunities to learn to use confocal microscopy and digital microscopy. In addition, she become sufficient in doing solid state photoreactions. This fall Uyen transferred to study biochemistry at the Ohio State University.