As most everyone in the department is aware, our High Energy Physics Group has a large presence at Large Hadron Collider at CERN working on both ATLAS and CMS.   The ATLAS group which includes Professors K.K. Gan, Harris Kagan and Richard Kass has recently been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation which along with 30% matching funds totals $500,000. This grant will enable the ATLAS group to acquire several major pieces of equipment to design and fabricate a much faster optical readout system to enhance the physics capability of the ATLAS experiment. This is the third successful instrumentation grant for the ATLAS group.