In 2004 we received 9 applications. Awards by our Grants Committee totaling $11,429 were as follows (principal investigator indicated in parentheses):

1. University of Massachusetts (Houjun Mo). $3,000 to purchase a 2 processor Opteron PC station to support the data analysis related to the University of Massachusetts research program.

2. College of the Holy Cross (Tomohiko Narita). $2,450 to purchase a Linux-based computer system and interactive data language software package to aid in running interactive simulations of their detector and to compare and analyze hardware calibration and simulation results.

3. Fisk University (Michael Watson). $3,000 to purchase computer visualization and data analysis software to allow the analysis of accretion disk dynamics data from a parallel electromagnetic PIC code.

4. Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy (Wm. Bruce Weaver). $2,979 to purchase a narrowband H-alpha filter and a dual-band continuum filter to be used on the MIRA 0.9m telescope in conjunction with the existing filter wheel and CCD direct-imaging camera to identify and monitor emission stars in star formation regions.

   The F.A.R. gratefully acknowledges the donation by the Institute for Space Observations of the funds for this grant.