Another Summer Wrapped Up!
What a summer! Seven students spent it in spinlab: Kylie, Thomas, Alexandra, Sam, Elijah, Huy, and David.
Four of our students — Thomas, Alexandra, Sam, and David — were supported by William & Mary’s Charles Center undergraduate research funding.
We also celebrated the end of the summer with our traditional liquid nitrogen ice cream — check out this year’s flavor lineup, including a recurring pre-workout theme.
Spinlab was lucky to host several wonderful visitors this summer: Dr. Xylar Asay-Davis (Argonne National Laboratory), Prof. Leif Schröder (German Cancer Research Center / University of Heidelberg), and Prof. Jocelyn Alcántara-García (University of Delaware).
We also got to spend a few days with a Magritek Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometer as a demo unit, testing T2 relaxation times across a range of samples to see how benchtop NMR could benefit our department.
It was a fantastic summer all around — good work, team! Here’s looking forward to Fall 2026!
Tyler Meldrum
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Director of Undergradate Research in Chemistry
Physical chemist and teacher, founder of spinlab. Researches NMR, materials, and student-driven discovery.