Local hosts Drs. Jacqueline O’Connor and Yuan Xuan hosted the Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute in State College, PA from March 4-7, 2018. Attended by 178 colleagues from around the country, the meeting featured numerous technical sessions, plenary lectures on chemical mechanism reduction, supersonic combustion, and wildfire ecology, a graduate writing workshop, a diversity and inclusion workshop to brainstorm ideas for a CI-wide mentoring network, and a banquet at the historic Nittany Lion Inn.