External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
Nine Michigan State University researchers, including Dean Lee, professor of physics at FRIB and in MSU's Department of Physics and Astronomy, have been elected 2025 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, one of the world’s largest and most respected scientific societies.
Three Michigan State University graduate students, including Ethan Fletcher, a graduate student at FRIB, were selected for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research program. The award provides world-class training and access to state-of-the-art facilities at DOE national laboratories, preparing the next generation of scientists for roles of critical importance to the nation’s energy, science and national innovation priorities.
In 2020, Detroit DJ and producer Carl Craig was tapped by the Dia Art Foundation in New York City to construct Party/Afterparty—a deeply personal sound and light exhibition that captured the euphoria of the club environment and the loneliness after parties ended. Now, Craig is mixing it up as the MSUFCU Arts Power Up artist in residence at MSU, where he is working with FRIB to help explain what it does through an art installation. He joined the show to explain his approach and why he has taken on these art projects.
The Australian National University (ANU) Research School of Physics and the Heavy Ion Accelerators (HIA) have strengthened their partnership with FRIB at MSU through the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The agreement formalizes a long-standing collaboration supporting joint research, as well as academic, technical staff, and student exchanges.
An MSU Museum panel brought together faculty, artists, and a FRIB physicist to explore connections among music, science, and video games as part of a cross-campus arts initiative. Detroit techno artist Carl Craig, who serves as an MSUFCU Arts Power Up artist-in-residence at FRIB, participated in the discussion alongside experts in game design and music, highlighting interdisciplinary collaboration across research and the arts.
Researchers have taken an important step toward solving one of astrophysics’ oldest isotope mysteries: where the rare proton-rich atomic species known as p-nuclei come from. The study was led by Artemis Tsantiri, who conducted the work as a graduate student at FRIB and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Regina in Canada.
Michigan State University's K500 Chip Testing Facility, inaugurated in February at FRIB, cost approximately $14 million to establish, with funding provided by the U.S. Department of Defense. The project repurposed the campus' K500 superconducting cyclotron, completed in 1982 for high-energy, heavy-ion research, including producing and accelerating ion beams to study nuclear structure, to now allow the facility to test semiconductors for space, defense and on-Earth applications.
Michigan State University's K500 Chip Testing Facility, inaugurated in February at FRIB, cost approximately $14 million to establish, with funding provided by the U.S. Department of Defense. The project repurposed the campus' K500 superconducting cyclotron, completed in 1982 for high-energy, heavy-ion research, including producing and accelerating ion beams to study nuclear structure, to now allow the facility to test semiconductors for space, defense and on-Earth applications.
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Rodney Whitaker, director of jazz studies at MSU, and Carl Craig, the MSUFCU Arts Power Up artist in residence at MSU and FRIB, a public conversation exploring how Detroit’s musical landscape shaped their work and careers. The event marked the first public program of Craig’s January–April residency, which includes a multimedia collaboration with FRIB this fall.
FRIB Laboratory Director Thomas Glasmacher discusses the K500 Chip Testing Facility on WILS 1320, a Lansing talk show radio station.
FRIB at Michigan State University opened the K500 Chip Testing Facility, a new national center for testing advanced microelectronics with heavy-ion radiation.
Known as KSEE, the facility will increase U.S. testing capacity by repurposing the world’s first superconducting cyclotron, the K500, which was built at MSU in the 1980s. A newly built high-bay testing area will allow researchers to evaluate microchips for resistance to cosmic-ray damage.
FRIB at Michigan State University today marked the inauguration of the K500 Chip Testing Facility or KSEE, expanding U.S. capacity for radiation effects testing of advanced microelectronics used in spaceflight, defense, wireless communications, and autonomous systems.
The ribbon cutting recognized the completion and operational launch of a refurbished superconducting cyclotron and a new high-bay addition that together increase FRIB’s ability to support testing for government, industry, and academic users nationwide.
