The availability of intense (>10⁵ pps) beams of long-lived radioisotopes at energies just above the Coulomb barrier at the ReA facility at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, and the newly implemented SOLARIS spectrometer led to a 2021 campaign of experiments to study varied aspects of nuclear structure in neutron-rich nuclei. The _N_ = 18 nucleus, ³²Si, has single-neutron excitations in the _f__7/2, _p__3/2, and _p__1/2 orbitals; however, their binding energies are unknown. The neutron-adding (d,p) reaction selectively populates these excitations. Using SOLARIS and a ³²Si beam from ReA, the energies and single-particle strength of these excitations have been determined. These data inform a global picture of f and p excitations in nuclei with _N_ = 16, 18, and 20 (plus a neutron) as these excitations move toward the weak binding limit and the island of inversion. A further experiment revisited the classic study of the ¹⁰Be(_t_,_p_)¹²Be reaction, but in inverse kinematics. A complete description of the structure of 12Be remains elusive. At higher beam energy and with the advantages of detecting recoils of both ¹²Be and ^10,11Be populated in reactions above one and two neutron separation energies, the solenoidal-spectrometer technique reveals new insights into the structure of ¹²Be. A brief overview of the SOLARIS spectrometer and the 2021 campaign will accompany the discussion of these new results. *This material is based upon work supported by NSF’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, which is a major facility fully funded by the National Science Foundation under award PHY-1565546; the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract Number DE-AC02-06CH11357 (Argonne) and Award Number DE-SC0014552 (UConn); the Spanish Ministerio de Econom ́ıa y Competitividad through the Programmes “Ram ́on y Cajal” with the grant number RYC2019-028438-I; the U. K. Science and Technology Facilities Council (Grant No. ST/P004423/1); and the International Technology Center Pacific (ITC-PAC) under Contract No. FA520919PA138. SOLARIS is funded by the DOE Office of Science under the FRIB Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661. The isotopes used in this research were supplied by the U.S. Department of Energy Isotope Program, managed by the Office of Isotope R&D and Production, and by the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.

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