In April this year, my group joined the Center of Excellence CENTAUR funded by National Nuclear Security Administration at Texas A&M. Through the center, we will continue our work with the HYPERION array at the Texas A&M cyclotron to investigate the statistical properties of rare-earth nuclei. Such measurements provide constraints for the neutron capture cross sections for nuclear astrophysics (s- and r-processes) and for applications (reactor physics, stockpile stewardship, national security).
More information can be found here: https://news.nd.edu/news/training-the-next-generation-of-leaders-in-low-energy-nuclear-physics/ and in the Texas A&M press release: http://www.science.tamu.edu/news/story.php?story_ID=2006#.W2oMoP5KhE4