Six physics students and two faculty members spent last week in New Orleans presenting their research at the annual Intermag/Magnetism & Magnetic Materials (MMM) conference. The presentations covered research funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Materials being studied in the students research included nickel/molybdenum disulfide nanostructures, nickel/chromium triiodide nanostructures, and various Heusler alloys. All these systems have exhibited properties that make them potentially useful for applications in spintronics – the integration of traditional semiconductor-based electronics with magnetism.