External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.

  • 14 April 2016
  • The John Hopkins News-Letter

Scientists are still searching for the complete story behind the formation of heavy earth metals, but they have narrowed down the possibilities to two likely sources. Michigan State University (MSU) researchers along with colleagues from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany are currently using computer model simulations to investigate the two possibilities: a supernova collapse and the collision of two neutron stars.

http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2016/04/14/gold-creation-requires-cataclysmic-even…
  • 13 April 2016
  • San Francisco Gate

State officials have awarded a $3 million grant for road projects to support the operation of a nuclear science facility being built at Michigan State University.

  • 13 April 2016
  • WLNS-TV

The Michigan Department of Transportation announced the state transportation economic grant will help pay for five associated road projects that will improve traffic flow around FRIB.

https://www.wlns.com/news/state-contributes-3-million-for-roads-around-msu/
  • 31 March 2016
  • The Science Explorer

Michigan State University researchers, along with colleagues from the Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany, have zeroed in on an answer to one of astronomy’s most perplexing questions: Where did heavy elements, such as gold, come from?

  • 30 March 2016
  • The Science Daily

Michigan State University researchers, working with colleagues from Technical University Darmstadt in Germany, are zeroing in on the answer to one of science's most puzzling questions: Where did heavy elements, such as gold, originate?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160330103322.htm
  • 30 March 2016
  • R&D magazine

An international team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Germany’s Technical University Darmstadt are exploring that elemental compounds like gold and uranium originate from space.

  • 30 March 2016
  • Phys.org

Michigan State University researchers, working with colleagues from Technical University Darmstadt in Germany, are zeroing in on the answer to one of science's most puzzling questions: Where did heavy elements, such as gold, originate?

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-international-team-explores-elements.html
  • 23 December 2015
  • Fox 47

Although it's under construction, Senator Debbie Stabenow got a brief look at the progress of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. When it's complete, the FRIB is expected to create thousands of jobs across Michigan.

  • 22 December 2015
  • WLNS

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow visited Michigan State University’s F-RIB facility after helping send hundreds of millions of dollars from Washington to build to facility in East Lansing.

  • 22 December 2015
  • Lansing State Journal

Civil construction on Michigan State University’s $730 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams is 10 weeks ahead of schedule less than two years after the project’s groundbreaking.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/12/22/michigan-state-unive…
  • 22 December 2015
  • The Washington Times

Michigan State University officials say they are ahead of schedule on a nuclear science facility, and the project has been buoyed by federal funding to continue construction.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/22/workers-ahead-of-schedule-on-n…
  • 22 December 2015
  • WKAR

The omnibus spending bill Congress passed last week includes sizeable dollars for the FRIB project at MSU, and for Great Lakes restoration projects. We talk with Democratic Sen. Gary Peters about what’s in the new federal budget.

http://wkar.org/post/sen-peters-encouraged-middle-ground-federal-budget-law#str…