April 2022

  • Megan Alfieri passed her thesis defense, focusing on “Exploring the Photophysics of Brown Carbon Chromophores using Laser-Based Spectroscopy and Computational Methods”! Well done!

  • Congrats to Ruby Neisser on receiving grant funding for her work on brown carbon chromophores as a Monroe Scholar (W&M Charles Center) and as a Virginia Space Grant Consortium Scholar!

March 2022

  • Prof. Kidwell and Megan Alfieri go to the Spring 2022 National ACS Meeting in San Diego to present on the group's latest work! Prof. Kidwell gives an invited talk at "The Synergy of Theory and Experiment: A Symposium in Honor of Prof. John F. Stanton" symposium.

  • The Kidwell group had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Dick Zare to deliver the Dreyfus lecture series at William and Mary! Many thanks to the Dreyfus Foundation for supporting these events and for summer funding for students!

  • The Kidwell group went to the Governor’s School for Science and Technology for our NSF-funded outreach collaboration to build, test and deploy AIRduino atmospheric sensors to monitor air quality at local high schools!

  • Daniel Costantino receives the 2022 American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry!

December 2021

  • Congratulations to Daniel Costantino for passing his Senior Honors Thesis with flying colors! Daniel is also graduating this semester, and plans to attend medical school following a clinical internship.

August 2021

  • Many thanks to the National Science Foundation for funding our work to study the structure, photophysics, and photochemistry of flexible, microsolvated N-heterocycles important in 'brown carbon' aerosols!

  • Prof. Kidwell is invited to present the group's work at the Physical Chemistry Research at Undergraduate Institutions symposium at the 2021 Fall ACS Meeting in Atlanta, GA.

July 2021

  • Prof. Kidwell presented our latest dynamics work at the 2021 International Symposium on Molecular Beams.

  • John Davis (JD) joins our group as a graduate student. He obtained his undergraduate degrees (Chemistry and Mathematics) from Washington & Lee University with Prof. Erich Uffelman, examining cultural heritage objects using hyperspectral reflectance imaging spectrometry. Welcome JD!

June 2021

  • Emily Chappie and Prof. Kidwell give talks on the group's recent work at the 2021 International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy.

  • We are looking forward to summer research with Daniel Costantino, Rachel Caulfield, Titouan Duston, Megan Alfieri, and John Davis! Good times ahead!

May 2021

  • Thanks to the Commonwealth Center for Energy and the Environment for funding our work on the ultraviolet spectroscopy of 'brown carbon' molecular chromophores!

  • Congratulations to David Hood, Brianna Peterson, and Emily Chappie for passing their Honors Thesis defense!

  • Wishing the best to our 4 graduating seniors - David Hood, Brianna Peterson, Emily Chappie, and Chris Hettwer! Congratulations!

April 2021

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January 2021

  • Charles Coleman, Rachel Caulfield, and Elizabeth Kuhlkin join the group! Welcome!

November 2020

October 2020

August 2020

  • Megan Alfieri joins our group as a graduate student. She obtained her undergraduate Chemistry degree from Ashland University with Prof. Brian Mohney, identifying contamination levels of silicone wristbands. Welcome Megan!

June 2020

  • We have 4 students conducting research this summer in the Kidwell group, including David Hood, Titouan Duston, Emily Chappie, and Chris Hettwer! Looking forward to a fun and productive summer!

May 2020

  • Our collaborative paper on the photodissociation dynamics of S-nitrosothiophenol with the Petit group (California State University - Fullerton) and the Abelt group (William & Mary) was accepted in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.! Using velocity map imaging and high-level calculations, we explore the dynamical signatures imprinted on a remarkably limited subset of product quantum states, and we also develop an understanding of the competing dissociation pathways revealed from the velocity and angular distributions. Congrats to all!

  • Congratulations to David Hood for being selected as a 2020-2021 VSGC Undergraduate Research Scholar! David was also awarded an Honors Fellowship from the Charles Center!

  • We have 7 students graduating as alumni from the Kidwell Laser Lab! Congratulations to the graduating seniors - Naa-Kwarley Quartey, Kelly Rodriguez-Vasquez, Sarah Chen, Paul Volante, Abby Schooling, Tara Prakash, and Helena Wang! Wishing you each the best in your next adventures!

January 2020

  • Our work on the AIRduino is published in J. Chem. Educ.! The AIRduino is a portable measurement lab that interfaces an Arduino microcontroller with sensors recording ozone, volatile organic compounds, temperature, humidity, and aerosols of different sizes. Housed in a 3-D printed box, the device stores the data on an on-board SD card and the results are streamed to an App interface via Bluetooth for real-time analysis of aerosol formation. Great work team!

  • Brianna Peterson, Titouan Duston, and Ruby Neisser join the group. Welcome Brianna, Titouan, and Ruby!

December 2019

  • Emily Chappie joins the group. Welcome Emily!

November 2019

  • Naa presents her work on the nonreactive collision dynamics of NO with O2 at the 2019 NOBCChE Meeting in St. Louis, MO!

October 2019

  • Our AIRduino work is featured in W&M News!

  • Daniel Costantino joins the group. Welcome Daniel!

September 2019

  • Our work on the solar photolysis of nitroaromatic chromophores is featured on the cover of the J. Phys. Chem. A!