In 2011 we received 7 applications. Awards by our Grants Committee totaling $10,666 were as follows (principal investigator indicated in parentheses):

1. American Association of Variable Star Observers (Arne A. Henden). $2,820 to fund a back-end server and storage system to create a system for use by a membership of 122 amateur astronomers, plus numerous professional astronomers and science educators.

2. Drake University (Timothy Urness). $2,536 for computer hardware to support an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Computer Science at Drake University. The Research objective is to utilize and develop scientific visualization techniques to explore the galaxy-black hole connection and its role in the formation and subsequent evolution of galaxies.

3. Johns Hopkins University (Guangtun Zhu and Guilin Liu). $2,920 to obtain a high-performance workstation for the analysis of large datasets produced by the Sloan digital Sky Survey (SDSS) I-III and observations with the Gemini telescope.

4. Bradley Observatory Agnes Scott College (Chris De Pree). $2,390 to obtain a new Windows-7 PC and two software packages (MAXIM-DL and MIRA Pro) to carry out observations with SARA-N and SARA-S and to reduce the data.