Congats to graduate student Kaitlyn Chhe on receiving a traineeship from the Soft Materials for Life Sciences National Research Training Program!!!

Sujeewa has received a Merit Award from the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms! Congratulations Sujeewa!!

Hard to believe that we’ve been virtual since March, but cheers to an eventful Spring 2020!! Congratulations to all of our graduates — Joe and Tanya, who finished their Ph.D.’s and undergraduates Cameron and Taylor! We hope to be able to celebrate in person one day!!!

Tanya successfully defended her thesis (virtually)! Congratulations Tanya!!!

Cameron successfully defended his honors thesis, “Macrophage Cell Surface Modification via Tumor Microenvironment Peptide Cleavable Linkers” virtually and did a great job!

Several undergrads also received honors from the Department of Chemistry this semester:

–Maya Hegde received the Robert Maxwell Williams Scholarship

–Cameron Sanders received the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry and the Jay A. Pirog Scholarship

–Ryan Thai received the Undergraduate Research Fund Award

Congratulations to all!!!

Congratulations to Joe on defending his thesis! Good luck in your postdoc at Harvard Medical School!!! (Sorry we didn’t have a better photo!)

Jeffrey Cullen and Kyle Winters are now official members of the group! We’re excited to see what these guys cook up in the lab!

Congratulations to junior biochemistry major Josue Medor, who is the first Farkas group undergraduate to be a member of the competitive Junior Fellows Program at UMass!

4th year graduate student Bishnu Joshi has been awarded the Paul Hatheway Terry Scholarship from the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations Bishnu!!!

Summer may be over but the memories are still alive!!!