The Curation Office is undergoing organizational changes. The new Chief Curator, Carl Allen, has been hired and you can read about him in this issue. The new Curation office will continue to curate lunar, meteorite, and cosmic dust samples, but will become more active in curation of new collections. The first of those will be returned by the Genesis mission, solar particles, followed by the Stardust mission to collect comet particles and the Japanese mission, Muses C, from which we will receive asteroid material. The Genesis payload is being assembled in our newly constructed Class 10 clean room and should be on it way to hook up with the spacecraft in September. Significant new efforts will also examine how to quarantine and curate Martian samples. We will begin a program of testing of these new procedures.

Requests for lunar samples for scientific study remain strong. We have sent out 155 samples from the last two rounds of allocations in November of '99 and March of '00. Note that the next round of sample requests is due in Houston on the 11^th of September for the CAPTEM meeting in mid October.

A long-term display sample has been sent to the University of Colorado Heritage Center in Boulder. This is the first sample available for viewing in the Rocky Mountain States. There will soon be another in Albuquerque at the LodeStar Astronomy Center at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History. The next long-term display sample, however, will go to the Western Australian Museum of Natural Science in Perth. We will also be sending a sample for display in Leicester, United Kingdom at the National Space Science Center. We have completed a new design for the display case that will be easier to build and will make it easier to produce long-term display samples in the future.

As this newsletter is being prepared, the third workshop "New Views of the Moon III: Synthesis of sample analysis, on-surface investigations, and remote sensing information" has been announced. Be sure to see the article by Brad Jolliff in this issue of Lunar News for an update on the Lunar Science Initiative.