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A conference will be held on Nuclear Physics Near the Drip Lines, sponsored by Michigan State University from August 21-24, 1996. The conference will focus on the latest theoretical developments of the properties of nuclei near the proton and neutron limits of stability and the implication for nuclear structure and astrophysics. With the many new and planned radioactive beam facilities, including the one at MSU, there is a renewed interest in nuclear structure and to what extent the traditional models are still valid to explain the properties of these exotic nuclei.

0732473BanerjeeThis grant supports a three year continuation of funding for the Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM) at the University of Minnesota.

Demographic studies indicate that ethnic and racial minorities, and women continue to be under-represented in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Western Michigan University and Wayne State University established the Michigan-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (MI-LSAMP) in 2005.

9319113 Green Lake Michigan College requests support from NSF for a connection of its campus network to Michnet and NSFNET. Michnet is the midlevel network located in the state of Michigan that will provide operations and network information services. It will give Lake Michigan College a 56 thousand bits per second connection to the NSFNET, a high speed (1.5 - 45 million bits per second) National Backbone network.

This award provides partial support for the Gull Lake Nuclear Physics Conference on Giant Resonances to be held August 17 - 21, 1993 at the Kellogg Biological Research Center in Gull Lake, Michigan. The conference will convene all active researchers, theorists and experimentalists, in order to present and discuss the latest results and to stimulate and suggest future research.

The focal point of the Aquatic Education Learning Community project is to bring hands-on science to thousands of students and the general public through development of a Lake Michigan Center to be located on the shore of Muskegon Lake in Michigan. The project will build on the success of the Grand Valley State University - Water Resources Institute (GVSU-WRI) Outreach and Education Program, a Michigan Department of Education grant to the Institute for teacher professional development, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Lake Michigan Forum Making Lake Michigan Great tour.

9317401 Peterson In order to evaluate two classes of food chain models (top-down and bottom-up regulation of species abundance), this project includes continued evaluation of moose and wolf population dynamics in Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, an island in Lake Superior (544 km2 in area). Also included is expanded monitoring of moose condition and vegetation status. The two food chain model classes have opposing predictions for two trophic subsystems which are evident on Isle Royale.

Matching funds are provided for the purchase of a state-of- the-art x-ray fluorescence spectrometer to be used in support of research in the areas of materials and minerals at Michigan Technological University. Primary users will be faculty and graduate students from the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, with significant use also from the Department of Geological Engineering, Geology and Geophysics.