  The CLEO-c research program will include studies of leptonic, semileptonic
and hadronic charm decays, searches for exotic and gluonic matter, and test for
physics beyond the Standard Model. The experiment and the CESR accelerator were
modified to efficiently operate at center-of-mass energies between 3 and 5 GeV.
Data at the \psi(3770) resonance were recorded with the CLEO-c detector in
September 2003 beginning a new era in the exploration of the charm sector.
