WE REQUEST NASA ADAP SUPPORT TO INFER THE EVOLUTIONARY STATE LUMINOSITIES AND MASSES OF 3 000 STAR-FORMING DENSE MOLECULAR CORES USING HERSCHEL HI-GAL DATA. THE TARGET CORES ARE SELECTED FROM THE 870 M ATLASGAL SURVEY TO HOST THE EARLY STAGES OF HIGH-MASS STAR FORMATION AND TO SPAN THE COMPLETE RANGE OF THEIR EARLY EVOLUTIONARY STAGES. ALL 3 000 OF THESE CORES WILL BE MAPPED IN THE MILLIMETER ASTRONOMY LEGACY TEAM 90 GHZ SURVEY (MALT90) A NEW PROJECT DESIGNED TO SIMULTANEOUSLY IMAGE 16 MOLECULAR LINESNEAR 90 GHZ. THE DUST TEMPERATURES DERIVED FROM THE HI-GAL DATA WILL PROVIDE THE KEY DIAGNOSTIC OF THE EVOLUTIONARY PHASE AS THE CORES EVOLVE DUE TO HEATING BY THE EMBEDDED YOUNG STARS FROM THE EARLIEST COLD STARLESS CORES TO INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURE PROTOSTELLAR CORES AND FINALLY ON TO HOT CORES AND H II REGIONS. WE WILL CORRELATE THE EVOLUTIONARY STATE INDICATED BY THE HI-GAL DUST TEMPERATURES WITH THE CHEMICAL AND KINEMATIC INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE MALT 90 MOLECULAR LINE SURVEY. MOREOVER SINCE MALT 90 DATA PROVIDES KINEMATIC DISTANCES THE HI-GAL SUBMM/FIR SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS WILL ALSO PROVIDE THE LUMINOSITY AND MASS DISTRIBUTIONS OF DENSE CORES. THIS PROJECT WILL ALLOW FOR THE FIRST TIME A COMPLETE AND ROBUST CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PHYSICAL EVOLUTION OF DENSE CORES. SINCE THIS PROJECT STUDIES THE FORMATION OF HIGH-MASS STARS IT BEARS DIRECTLY ON NASA'S ORIGINS THEME.