THE READ LAB
READ LAB NEWS
Fall 2025
Starting up a new lab comes with a lot of boxes to unpack! Here is our postdoc, Nirmala, unwrapping one of our shiny new balances 👀 ✨
August 2025
We are enthralled to announce that Prof. Read won the prestigious 2025 Outstanding Publication of the Year Award from the Journal of Organic Chemistry for her article "Computational Library Enables Pattern Recognition of Noncovalent Interactions and Application as a Modern Linear Free Energy Relationship." Here is Editor-in-Chief Scott Miller presenting her with the award!
July 2025
The Read Lab cooled off over the Texas summer with liquid nitrogen ice cream!
July 2025
The Read Lab had a summer pickleball tournament to celebrate the end of summer!
June 2025
The Read Lab welcomed our first undergraduate researchers to the lab during our inaugural summer here at UT - San Antonio!
January 2025
We celebrated our move to UTSA with a lunch welcoming the first two Ph.D. students to join our lab, Cody and Sandhya!
Fall 2024
The Read Lab commemorated the end of our time at Dartmouth with an Indian feast cooked by none other than our fantastic postdoc, Nirmala!
Fall 2023
The Read Lab welcomes its first Postdoc—Dr. Nirmala Mohanta! She is not only talented in chemistry, but also helped us win the Chem Dept. pumpkin contest along with the help of Dr. Kim Wasick, who we borrowed from the Sandford Lab to help perfect our "Cat-alyst"
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Spring 2023
Seniors Lewis MacMillan and Joana Lame defend their research theses and will soon graduate—thank you for all of your hard work, we will miss you!
Fall 2022
Zoe Duvalsaint and Drew Barry joined the Read Lab as leave term students this Fall!
August 2022
Enjoying our beautiful surroundings this summer while discgolfing and hiking with our summer students!
May 2022
The Read Lab celebrates Memorial Day with a lab picnic 🥖🍇
March 2022
We celebrate the end of our first term at Lou's for lunch!
January 2022
Experimental work begins as the students start Winter term ❄️
November 2021
First Read Lab group meeting!
Our first group meeting!
September 2021
The Read Lab opens its doors at Dartmouth!