The George Washington University has had a special relationship with Jefferson Lab since its inception. GW is a Charter Member of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), and has supported Jefferson Lab in many ways, both institutionally and in the form of the research efforts of its faculty. Since 1983, the GW Physics Department has created no fewer than twelve Jefferson-Lab-oriented faculty positions (seven regular and five research faculty; six each in nuclear theory and experiment). Among these are the present PI and co-PIs.

For the past three years, Prof. Berman has served as GW’s Institutional Representative (the GW representative on the Hall-B Membership Committee), as well as chair of the Hall-B Service Work Committee. Both Prof. Berman and Prof. Briscoe have served two-year terms as Chair of the Real-Photon-Physics Working Group and member of the CLAS Coordinating Committee, as well as on several other committees over the years, and both have spent major parts of their sabbatical years at Jefferson Lab. Assoc. Prof. Feldman recently became a full member of the CLAS Collaboration, is playing a major role in the polarimetry program, and spent the first half of his 2002-2003 sabbatical year at Jefferson Lab.

To date, we are co-spokespersons on six approved experiments in Hall B (» 10% of the total) as well as one in Hall A, and we are actively involved in two others, one in Hall A and one in Hall C. Four of our students have completed their work for the Ph.D. based on experiments at Jefferson Lab; those of Catalina Cetina on photofission of heavy nuclei (the g5 experiment); Sasha Philips on two-p 0 photoproduction from the proton (g1); Ana Lima on inclusive K+ photoproduction from 2H (g2); and Silvia Niccolai on three-body photodisintegration of 3He (g3). We now support two (one of them cost-shared) postdoctoral Research Scientists (Yordanka Ilieva and Henry Juengst) at Jefferson Lab, and another cost-shared position will begin this coming April. Our summer undergraduate research program has supported several (usually two or three) undergraduate students each year at Jefferson Lab as well. Fifteen of our nuclear-physics graduate students have attended HUGS over the years.