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Keck Foundation Gives UH Big Money for New Lab

HONOLULU (AP) - The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded a $1.5 million dollar grant to help create the world's most advanced laboratory researching star and planet formation and evolution.

That's according to the University of Hawaii Foundation.

The grant to the foundation will support the establishment of a new cosmochemistry lab, with a state-of-the-art ion microprobe as its center piece.

The university has pledged one million dollars for the lab, and NASA is providing a $1.4 million dollar grant.

The ion microprobe will be located in the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.

The instrument allows the determination of trace element contents and isotopic compositions of microscopically small samples.