Happy New Year! I hope you all enjoyed a very pleasant holiday season. To our December graduates, many congratulations to you and the best of luck in the fascinating journey before you! Please be sure to keep in touch. To the rest of our readers, welcome back to another exciting year at Maryland Physics!

I hope you'll all enjoy this January 2004 Supplement to the Photon. Don't miss our coverage of the Winter 2003 Commencement ceremony as well as a few breaking news items. For the next full issue of the Photon, complete with new research articles from faculty and alumni and all the latest news from the University of Maryland Department of Physics, be sure to check back next month. Until then, Happy New Year and Welcome Back!

Best regards,

Karrie Sue Hawbaker
Editor