The University of Maryland has received a $150 000 grant from the US Weather Bureau to be used by the University's Department of Physics and Astronomy to strengthen its newly established Center of Atmospheric and Space Physics. The grant will provide new equipment and research facilities at the Center, and will support the addition of several new members to the research group. The Department expects the staff of the Center to include six or seven faculty members and at least ten graduate students this fall, and it is anticipated that that total will be approximately doubled within the next few years.