On reaction times.

For our Spring Edition of The Reaction Times, we asked the department to share their experiences involving “Chemistry at Home.” With many of us spending more time than usual in our living often-turned-working space, we wanted to hear about how chemistry was continuing, happening, and evolving for our faculty, students, and staff. We were thrilled at the rich and varied responses we received. For some, “chemistry at home” meant the actual doing of chemistry at home, with makeshift labs cropping up in basements and kitchens! We are excited to share Ed Voigtman’s piece on “exercising curiosity” via constructing an echelle spectrograph , as well as Julian Tyson’s update on his work developing methods of determining arsenic compounds in rice—from his home!