NSF and KECK Foundation Fund New XRD-XRF System With Rich April's leadership and input from a number of other departmental faculty, we have recently received news of two major grants from the National Science Foundation and the Keck Foundation that will support replacement of the X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Fluorescence Systems. The existing equipment was purchased in the late 1970's and has served us well. Many thousands of hours of machine time, representing analyses by hundreds of students, as well as faculty projects, have been provided by these venerable machines. In recent years the maintenance costs, down time and lack of reliability of analytical results had given us increasing concern, and we are pleased to have purchased new instruments that totaled nearly $300,000, with all the funding coming from external support. The new machines were installed early spring of 1999. Many thanks to Rich April for his hard work leading this effort and to Di for calibrating the new equipment.