Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research

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Lunar University Network for Astrophysics
Research Jack Burns, Team Leader Eric Hallman,
Deputy Team Leader
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LUNAR Progress

• Established a professionally-designed website
  http//lunar.colorado.edu/.
• Conducted first LUNAR Steering Committee meeting
  in the Spring in Boulder. Agenda presentations
  are on the website.
• All subcontracts to LUNAR partner institutions
  from Colorado have now been executed.
• Completed re-modeled office suite for LUNAR at
  Colorado (CU cost-share).
• Purchased extensively tested videoconferencing
  system.
• E/PO underway including design of new Planetarium
  programs.
• Soliciting small grant proposals for Other
  Astrophysics (see Hallman poster at Lunar Science
  Forum).
• New hires include
• Administrative Assistant at Colorado
• 1st LUNAR postdoctoral fellow (to begin Oct. 15)
  and advertisement for another postdoc at NRL.
• New graduate student research assistant (funded
  by CU cost-share).
• Two new undergraduate students hired for
  laboratory work at Colorado.
• Active recruitment for additional students at
  LUNAR partner institutions.
• Submitted 6 white papers to Astro2010 Decadal
  Survey.
• Presented invited talk at astrophysics conference
  at U. Wisconsin in June on LUNAR research
  Prospects for Probing Feedback from the First
  Black Holes Stars During Reionization.

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