Dear Colleagues, Previous notes from me have informed the campus of resources coming our way from state government for the operating budget and for the capital budget for priority renovations and improvements to the campus. This note is to inform you of significant federal revenue appropriated as program support for 2004 - 2005 fiscal/academic year. (Numerous other faculty research and/or demonstration projects are reported individually by Grants Office personnel at the time of award.) The following is the list of Congressional "Earmarks". 1) Acquire disc array, file server, work stations, router/switch, 72-node compute server, and support for Graduate School of Computational Engineering..... $491,782; 2) Acquire gigabit infini band switch and 500 node compute server for Graduate School of Computational Engineering ....$984, 159; 3) Research support into numerical simulation aspects of global climate change....$725,000; 4) Acquire and test 5 kw Solid Oxide Fuel Cell from IonAmerica. Evaluate by Computational Engineering possible and potential of use of Fuel Cell for commercial utilization by UTC and/or Chattanooga private development... $2,485,250; 5) Riverbend Technolgy Institute....$496,750; 6) National Biological Information web-based infrastructure support... $800,000. I would express gratitude to the efforts of the Computational Engineering faculty and for the significant governmental affairs efforts of John Schearer and Missy Crutchfield. Of course, the most thanks of all go to Congressman Zach Wamp. These additional $5,9982,941 represent a significant first in diversified funding sources to help meet the research mission of UTC. Thanks, Bill