1. Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research Jack Burns, Team Leader Eric Hallman, Deputy Team Leader

2. LUNAR Progress Established a professionally-designed website: http://lunar.colorado.edu/.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 –1 st 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”.