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Several NSCL users from undergraduate schools were present at the working group meeting and they suggested that the modular nature and simple construction would offer great opportunities to involve undergraduate students.

In the spring of 2001, the idea evolved into several MRI proposals submitted by 10 different institutions, most of them undergraduate schools. The proposals were funded by the NSF in the summer of 2001. Following the detailed design, the first modules of the detector array were delivered in the summer of 2002. During the following year all modules were assembled and tested by undergraduate studentsPhysicists at theirthese school,<ref>R.ten H.academic Howesinsitutions et al., American Journal of Physics 73, 122 (2005)</ref> and finally added to formformed the complete array at theMoNA NSCL.Collaboration:

The MoNA collaboration continued after the initial phase of construction and commissioning was concluded [MoNA], and is now using the detector array for experiments, giving a large number of undergraduate students from all collaborating schools the opportunity to take part in cutting-edge nuclear physics experiments at one of the world’s leading rare-isotope facilities. The research at the undergraduate institutions is funded by the NSF through several RUI (Research at Undergraduate Institutions) grants.

== The MoNA Collaboration ==

The MoNA project is a collaboration between ten colleges and universities that originally constructed the highly efficient large-area neutron detector for the detection of high-energy neutrons to be used in experiments with fast rare isotopes at the NSCL. The project is funded by the [[National Science Foundation]].

The members of the collaboration are:

*[[Central Michigan University]]

*[[Concordia College (Minnesota)|Concordia College at Moorhead]]

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*[[Western Michigan University]]

*[[Westmont College]]

*[[Concordia University]]

The proposals were funded by the NSF in the summer of 2001. Following the detailed design, the first modules of the detector array were delivered in the summer of 2002. During the following year all modules were assembled and tested by undergraduate students at their school,<ref>R. H. Howes et al., American Journal of Physics 73, 122 (2005)</ref> and finally added to form the complete array at the NSCL.

The MoNA collaboration continued after the initial phase of construction and commissioning was concluded [MoNA], and is now using the detector array for experiments, giving a large number of undergraduate students from all collaborating schools the opportunity to take part in cutting-edge nuclear physics experiments at one of the world’s leading rare-isotope facilities. The research at the undergraduate institutions is funded by the NSF through several RUI (Research at Undergraduate Institutions) grants.

== The MoNA Collaboration ==

The MoNA Collaboration currently includes physicists from eleven colleges and universities. The project is funded by the [[National Science Foundation]].

The members of the collaboration are:

*[[Augustana College (Illinois)]]

*[[Central Michigan University]]

*[[Concordia College (Minnesota)|Concordia College at Moorhead]]

*[[Gettysburg College]]

*[[ConcordiaHampton University]]

*[[Hope College]]

*[[Indiana University South Bend]]

*[[Michigan State University]]

*[[Ohio Wesleyan University]]

*[[RhodesWabash College]]

*[[Westmont College]]

The collaboration is committed to involving undergraduates in significant parts of the experimental program at the MoNA facility. Most of the collaboration member institutions are primarily undergraduate schools. Undergraduates helped construct and test MoNA and continue to participate in experiments during runs and through data analysis. It also created intensive summer sessions designed for undergraduates, encouraging students to participate in all phases of experiments, holding several meetings a year that include undergraduate participants, and employing information technology to bring the distant undergraduate students together.