#ACSFall2025 - Tuesday highlights ✨

Today, Donya delivered an excellent presentation on her research on passive sampling for zwitterionic PFAS precursors!
Group members attended the Environmental Chemistry Division (ENVR) social event and made great connections!

#ACSFall2025 - Day 1
The Blaney lab delivered two fantastic presentations:
- Joowon Kim shared his work on measuring #PFAS hydrophocity and evaluating salting-out effects of PFOS by activated carbon
- Dr. Ke He presented on our team’s field validation study of a passive sampler for #PFAS analysis

Students partner with Baltimore community members to measure ‘forever chemicals’ in local waters On a sunny and unseasonably warm Halloween this past fall, a group of costumed UMBC students strolled the banks of the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. The costumes were in good fun, but the spirit driving ...

Check out this article highlighting the great research work of master's student Margaret Siao and PhD student Donya Hamidi!
umbc.edu/stories/meas...

🌟 Congratulations to Margaret Siao! 🎉 Last Friday, she successfully defended her master’s thesis. She did so well and we couldn't be prouder! Excited to see all the amazing things she'll accomplish next. Stay tuned for updates when she officially graduates in a few months!

Thanks for tagging our lab @atomslab.bsky.social; our group members run this account, but Lee is happy to chat anytime about this work or extensions of it 😀

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