Welcome to the newsletter of the 7*M research group. Here you will find information about current and past members of the group as well as a few people who were affiliated in one way or another with 7*M. Feel free to update your own entry. If you are a former 7*M researcher and do not yet have a password or forgot your password, please email Peter Buseck (pbuseck@asu.edu) or Susan Lowry (slowry@asu.edu).

There were enthusiastic responses to previous newsletters, and I had intended to prepare and distribute another one in hard copy. However, events conspired to make it preferable to do it electronically. The purpose is to provide brief summaries of people who passed through this laboratory so you can know about your former friends and colleagues; it is also a good way to remain in touch with them.

In many instances, the newsletter contains information you provided. If you sent me photos, please upload them in the format described on the image upload page. If you did not send me recent information, then the newsletter contains material you provided for the 1997 letter - it’s been that long since the prior one! There are also people for whom I have no information. If you are in contact with or have knowledge of such people, please invite them to contribute. Also, in case you think of people who were overlooked in the listings, please either inform them or me, so the oversight can be corrected.

Please feel free to send suggestions about how the newsletter can be made more useful or interesting. This is a first attempt, but my hope is that it can be self-sustaining so that you will be able to upgrade and correct it as you see fit.