{"id":12099,"date":"2023-08-17T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=12099"},"modified":"2023-08-17T12:27:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:27:39","slug":"the-ghafourifar-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2023\/08\/17\/the-ghafourifar-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghafourifar Lab has had a busy 2023!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfamlab.com\/\">Ghafourifar Lab<\/a> has had quite the busy year between working in the lab, classes, travelling and presenting at conferences.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/MaorArad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12105 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/MaorArad-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/MaorArad-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/MaorArad-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/MaorArad-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/MaorArad-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/MaorArad.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Maor Arad<\/strong> won the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/research\/students\/awards-and-funding\/ure-awards\/#d.en.1038984\">Undergraduate Research Excellence Award<\/a> at UFV held in May this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/Benning.Manjot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12106 size-thumbnail alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/Benning.Manjot-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/Benning.Manjot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/Benning.Manjot-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/Benning.Manjot-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Manjot Benning<\/strong> won the first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/blog\/2023\/05\/outstanding-student-leadership-award-manjot-benning-leads-by-example-with-compassion\/\">UFV Alumni Association&#8217;s Outstanding Leader award<\/a> and went on to represent UFV at the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2023\/04\/04\/congratulations-to-ufvs-2023-liysf-representatives-catherine-laflamme-and-manjot-benning\/\">London International Youth Science Forum July 26 &#8211; August 9.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Golfam Ghafourifar<\/strong> and her research students <em>(pictured above)<\/em>: <strong>Rajan Deol, Dario Jereb, Harmanpreet Kaur, Maor Arad, Zach Nestman, Manjot Benning, <\/strong>and <strong>Ronald Balagtas <\/strong>attended\/presented at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition held in Vancouver in June. This conference brings together students from across Canada every year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/Zack2-e1692296561466.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12102 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/Zack2-e1692296561466-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/Zack2-e1692296561466-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/Zack2-e1692296561466-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2023\/08\/Zack2-e1692296561466-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> Congratulations to <strong>Zach Nestman<\/strong> who won an award for honorable mention in the analytical chemistry division&#8217;s undergraduate competition. This is the third year in a row the Ghafourifar Lab has won the analytical poster presentation for undergraduate students!<\/p>\n<p>Keep up the amazing work you all are doing!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ufv.ca\/science\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4797 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/UFV-science-logo-300x137.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/UFV-science-logo-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/UFV-science-logo-150x68.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/UFV-science-logo-200x91.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/UFV-science-logo.png 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghafourifar Lab has had quite the busy year between working in the lab, classes, travelling and presenting at conferences. Maor Arad won the annual Undergraduate Research Excellence Award at UFV held in May this year. Manjot Benning won the first-ever UFV Alumni Association&#8217;s Outstanding Leader award and went on to represent UFV at the &#8230; <a title=\"The Ghafourifar Lab has had a busy 2023!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2023\/08\/17\/the-ghafourifar-lab\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":12100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[219,448],"class_list":["post-12099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chemistry","tag-chemistry","tag-student-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12099"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12112,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099\/revisions\/12112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}