| | PND - News - Moore Foundation Awards $9.1 Million for UC Santa Cruz Adaptive Optics Lab |
 | | The University of California, Santa Cruz has announced a grant of $9.1 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to establish a Laboratory for Adaptive Optics. |
 | | The new facility complements UC Santa Cruz's Center for Adaptive Optics, which focuses on the advancement of adaptive optics technology in astronomy and vision science. |
 | | "This grant builds on [UC Santa Cruz's] existing strengths in astronomy, astronomical instrumentation, and adaptive optics, and we are extremely grateful to the Moore Foundation for their very generous support of this important work," said UC Santa Cruz chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood. |
| www.foundationcenter.org /pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=13500046 (242 words) |