Lab News

Annika and Kolya receive Summa Cum Laude Honors at graduation!

Annika Stephan received the Jacob Van Ek Scholars Award: One of the highest honors in the College of arts & sciences

Kolya joined the Palmer lab as an undergraduate researcher in the summer of 2024 and picked right up on an independent project, first pioneer by a graduate student. Kolya is an extremely hard working and thoughtful researcher and successfully wrote

Annika has been an undergraduate researcher in the Palmer lab since the summer of 2024. She has been an incredible researcher carrying out her own independent research projects as well as contributing extensively to ongoing lab research. Right away

Annika recently attended the 2025 National Collegiate Honors Counsel Conference in San Diego. This conference gathers honors students, staff, and faculty from around the nation and invites them to share their experiences. Many schools hosted

This Fall we celebrated Portia Larson as she presented all the outstanding work she did in our Lab! Portia Graduated this fall and we are so proud of her and wish her all the best in her future work! 

October 7th, 2025: Our postdoc Aleksandra served as the leading organizer of the Front Range Industry & Postdoc Summit 2025 (FRIPS 2025), alongside an amazing team of fellow organizers from the University of Colorado Boulder and the

May 16th, 2025: Our postdoc Aleksandra, president of the Postdoctoral Association at the University of Colorado Boulder (PAC, https://www.colorado.edu/pac/), led the organization of the CU postdoc retreat at Winter Park. The event agenda was

This Spring we had much to celebrate, one PhD and three undergraduate Graduations. Erin defended her PhD thesis in January and Evan, Alyx, and Stephanie defended undergraduate honors thesis's this past spring! Congrats to: Erin Richards: PhD

Ananya attended the GRC Metals in Biology 2025 and delivered a talk at the Gordon Research Seminar(GRS) Bioinorganic Chemistry section