In August 2000 the Crystal Ball research collaboration met in the Neils Science Center. This group of ~30 physicists from universities and national research laboratories in the US as well as from Canada, Croatia, Germany, Sweden, and Russia met to report on their research efforts as part of this international collaboration. Each of these physicists shares the use of the Crystal Ball, a large, segmented, spherical NaI detector system located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Alternating Gradient Synchrotron in our data collection in 1997 and 1998. The analysis of these data have already resulted on several publications and more are in process along with approximately 6 Ph.D. theses. Profs. Koetke, Manweiler, and Stanislaus are members of this collaboration and pursuing studies in nuclear and particle physics research. You can learn more about this experiment, and about the overall research program in nuclear and particle physics at VU from this www page. Two students, Steve Wolf and Robert Greene reported on their summer research done here at VU this past summer. More details on the collaboration meeting can also be seen.