Dr. Kathryn Riley '10 played softball at Swarthmore and is the program’s all-time leader in hits, home runs, wins, innings pitched, strikeouts and more. Now she's an assistant softball coach and a chemistry professor at Swarthmore who just had another article published in the academic journal Environmental Science. The name of the article rolls right off the tongue--Emerging investigator series: quantifying silver nanoparticle aggregation kinetics in real-time using particle impact voltammetry coupled with UV-vis spectroscopy.

She explains her research in silver nanoparticles, tells of her dramatic no-hitter win over Ursinus in the Centennial Conference playoffs, and offers suggestions on the way that Swarthmore and the sport of softball can help improve Black representation in the sport.