Boyd Lab

Join us for a Graduate Student seminar by Alexis Miller from the Boyd Lab on Tuesday, September 30th at 4:00pm in Coulter 211! @umlibarts

Congratulations to Dr. Tanner for being featured as a 2025 Trailblazer!

We are excited to host SURC 2026! Abstracts are due December 5!

Thanks @UTChattanooga for sharing Tauheedah with us for the summer and for this awesome write up about her and her work! blog.utc.edu/news/2025/07/r…

If you missed the McNair Scholars presentations last week, they are on youtube here! Ayanna is from 2:42-2:56 youtube.com/watch?v=x_6ept…

Tune in to watch the McNair Scholar presentations on Wednesday! Including Ayanna Williams from @RustCollege1866 who has been working with us! Ayanna presents at 12:20

Join us for the Reb Researchers final presentations on July 1, 1-2 pm. Thank you to the Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) for their support.

Join us this next week for our upcoming REU Summer Program activities! #NSFfunded #nsfreu @umlibarts

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 4 tenure-track positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… #facultychemjobs Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that we should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail us at chemjobber@gmail.com

We are so excited for the summer with this excellent group of scholars!

CUR Welcomes the 2025-2026 Elected Councilors, Division Reps, and NLDC members The Nominations and Leadership Development Committee supports CUR’s future leadership. Councilors and Division Representatives serve the members of CUR's 13 divisions. cur.org/cur-names-2025…

Susan Pedigo Bids Farewell With Wisdom and Warmth - Mortar Board's honored lecturer shares personal stories, scientific passion and life lessons Full Story: bit.ly/4d3L0eI

Check out this podcast episode with Drs. Boyd, @BTrog, Dancz, High, and Stefl! A great interdisciplinary STEM education research team!

Congrats Holly Moncrief (Ambassador of the Year), Athan Gregory, Eddie Heinen, Bekah Heintz, Kaleb Henry, Sarah Kerr, & Adam Soltani for becoming a Ventress Scholar, & Anna Hogan & Adam Soltani as finalists for the James Meredith Change Maker Award @ the 2025 @umlibarts Awards!

Today, Astrid Lopez Matias successfully defended her senior Honors thesis! Congratulations Astrid!

An exciting week in the Boyd lab! Tuesday, Anna Hogan was awarded one of the top graduating senior awards at the annual departmental banquet. All of the top seniors are pictured below. Additionally, Alexis Miller received an Outstanding Early Graduate Student award!

Congratulations to graduate student Alexis Miller on her first presentation at UM at the College of Liberal Arts Research Showcase!

Are you at #NARST2025? Dr. Boyd and Dr. Vaughan from Reed College are co-chairing "Exploring Methodologies in Education Research: Insights and Applications from Early Career Scholars" in Annapolis 2 from 4:30-6:00. Feel free to stop by for whatever time your schedule allows!

Congratulations Athena and Zach!