Brenden Ferland, a PhD student in the Polymer Program (Adamson Group), has received $5,000 in research credits from Pangram Labs, a company that builds tools for detecting AI-written text. The award supports his study of AI use in papers posted to ChemRxiv, the major preprint server for chemistry research, examining how often authors use AI to write their papers, whether they disclose it, and how well the platform’s policies are keeping up.