The U.S. Department of Energy has renewed a $3.65 million grant for high-energy physics research at the University of California, Davis. The research program, under the direction of physics professor Richard Lander, has now enjoyed continuous DOE support for 30 years. Over the duration of the grant, UC Davis physicists have contributed to discoveries at the forefront of high-energy physics, including identification of the "top" quark in 1995, and of the tau neutrino in June, according to Lander. Continuous funding over so many years is an enormous advantage, says Lander, because projects in high-energy physics can take a long time to complete. For example, it will be six or seven years before Lander's lab can conduct the experiments they are building for the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. "When you work on something like that, you need strong, continuing support," says Lander. DOE support for experimental high-energy physics at UC Davis began in 1970, and now includes as principal investigators Richard Lander, Winston Ko and Philip Yager. Support for particle theory research, led by Jack Gunion, was added in 1976 and particle cosmology, led by Andreas Albrecht, was added in 1998. To carry out high-energy experiments, physicists need to travel to use facilities such as Fermilab in Chicago. UC Davis scientists are also collaborating on the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland. Over the next three years, the grant will support salaries for 10 faculty as well as postdoctoral researchers and graduate students, and operating costs for research in experimental high-energy physics, particle theory and particle cosmology.