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Taking Measure

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Claire Lamberti

Claire Lamberti is a graduate student at Southern Methodist University in Tomce Runcevski’s group where she is studying polymorphs, organic glasses, and characterization methods of these systems as part of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP). She's worked in various research labs ranging from Texas A&M in their BioFORCE program to Research Experience for Undergraduate programs (REUs). She's a fan of exercising, reading, and listening to music, and she enjoys baking and running Spartan races in her downtime.

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Clear as Glass: Studying Drug-Delivery Materials as a NIST SURF Student

October 6, 2021

This summer was an interesting one, to say the least. I was in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program offered by the National Institute of

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