Joseph Meadows joined the team in June 2015 as a visiting researcher on a National Science Foundation REU grant. Joseph graduated from East Texas Baptist University (ETBU) with a BS in chemistry. He comes from Mountain Home,Arkansas, after spending most of his childhood traveling as part of a military family.He intends to pursue a graduate degree in Chemistry after his graduation from ETBU in May of 2016. During the school year, he serves as a general subjects tutor and the student supervisor for ETBU’s Academic Center for Excellence. Joeseph is currently pursuing his PhD in physical chemistry at the University of Michigan.