Flight Definition 
Grants

California
Dr. Guenter Ahlers
"Boundary Effects on 
Transport Properties 
and Dynamic Finite-
Size Scaling Near the 
Superfluid-Transition 
Line of Helium IV"
University of 
California, Santa 
Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA

Dr. Melora Larson
"Experiments Along 
Coexistence Near 
Tricriticality 
(EXACT)"
Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory
Pasadena, CA

Dr. John Andrew Lipa
"Fundamental Physics 
Experiments With 
Superconducting Cavity 
- Stabilized 
Oscillators on Space 
Station"
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Dr. Feng-Chuan Liu
"Critical Thermal 
Transport in a Cross-
over Range from 3-
dimensional to 2-
dimensional Behavior"
Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory
Pasadena, CA

Colorado
Dr. Donald Sullivan
"Develop a Laser-
Cooled-Cesium Clock 
for Scientific and 
Technical Applications 
in Space"
National Institute of 
Standards and 
Technology
Boulder, CO

Connecticut
Professor Kurt Gibble
"Investigation of 
Future Microgravity 
Atomic Clocks"
Yale University
New Haven, CT

Ground Grants

California
Dr. C. W. Francis 
Everitt
"Satellite Test of the 
Equivalence Principle"
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Dr. John Andrew Lipa
"High Resolution Study 
of the Critical Region 
of Oxygen Using 
Magnetic Levitation"
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Dr. John Andrew Lipa
"A Test of 
Supersymmetry Theory 
by Searching for 
Anomalous Short Range 
Forces"
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Professor Richard E. 
Packard
"Superfluid Gyroscopes 
for Space"
University of 
California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Mr. Pat R. Roach
"A Microgravity Helium 
Dilution Cooler"
NASA Ames Research 
Center
Moffett Field, CA

Professor Peter 
Taborek
"Helium III - Helium 
IV Mixtures and 
Droplets Stabilized in 
Cesiated Containers"
University of 
California, Irvine
Irvine, CA

Colorado
Dr. John L. Hall
"Fundamental Physics 
Using Frequency-
Stabilized Lasers as 
Optical 'Atomic 
Clocks'"
University of 
Colorado, Boulder
Boulder, CO

Connecticut
Professor Juha 
Javanainen
"Bose-Einstein 
Condensate and Atom 
Laser:  Coherence and 
Optical Properties"
University of 
Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Dr. Mark A. Kasevich
"Atom Interferometry 
in a Microgravity 
Environment"
Yale University
New Haven, CT

Delaware
Professor Siu-Tat Chui
"Droplets of Helium 
III - Helium IV 
Mixtures"
University of Delaware
Newark, DE

Massachusetts
Professor Wolfgang 
Ketterle
"Towards Precision 
Experiments with Bose-
Einstein Condensates"
Massachusetts 
Institute of 
Technology
Cambridge, MA

Dr. Ronald L. 
Walsworth
"Ground-Based 
Investigations with 
the Cryogenic Hydrogen 
Maser and the Double-
Bulb Rubidium Maser"
Smithsonian 
Institution
Cambridge, MA

Maryland
Professor Ho Jung Paik
"Search for Spin-Mass 
Interaction With a 
Superconducting 
Differential Angular 
Accelerometer"
University of Maryland
College Park, MD

Dr. William D. 
Phillips
"Evaporative Cooling 
and Bose Condensates 
in Microgravity:  
Picokelvin Atoms in 
Space"
National Institute of 
Standards and 
Technology
Gaithersburg, MD

New York
Professor David M. Lee
"Studies of Atomic 
Free Radicals Stored 
in a Cryogenic 
Environment"
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Professor Jeevak M. 
Parpia
"The Effect of Thermal 
History, Temperature 
Gradients, and Gravity 
on Capillary 
Condensation of Phase 
Separated Liquid 
Helium III - Helium IV 
Mixtures in Aerogel"
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Ohio
Dr. Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho
"Gravitational Effects 
in Bose-Einstein 
Condensate of Atomic 
Gases"
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Dr. Donald T. Jacobs
"Turbidity and 
Universality Around a 
Liquid-Liquid Critical 
Point"
The College of Wooster
Wooster, OH

Tennessee
Dr. Alvin J. Sanders
"Research and Analysis 
in Support of Project 
SEE (Satellite Energy 
Exchange):  Test of 
the Equivalence 
Principle and 
Measurement of 
Gravitational 
Interaction Parameters 
in an Ultra-Precise 
Microgravity 
Environment"
University of 
Tennessee
Knoxville, TN

Texas
Professor Randall G. 
Hulet
"A Quantum Degenerate 
Fermi Gas of 6Li 
Atoms" Rice 
University, Houston, 
TX