  Over the last two decades transfer reactions have seen a resurgence following
developments in methods to use them with exotic beams. An important step in
this evolution was the ability to perform the (d,p) reaction on fission
fragment beams using the inverse kinematics technique, built on the experience
with light beams. There has been renewed interest in using ($^9$Be, $^8$Be) and
($^{13}$C, $^{12}$C) reactions to selectively populate single-particle like
states that can be studied via their subsequent decay. These reactions have
been successfully utilized in the $^{132}$Sn region. Additionally, our
collaboration has recently performed experiments with GODDESS, a combination of
the full ORRUBA detector and Gammasphere arrays. Another new direction is
measuring neutrons from (d,n) reactions, performed in inverse kinematics, with
the VANDLE array of plastic scintillators. Presented below is an overview of
these new techniques and some of the early data from recent experiments.
