External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
A nuclear research facility at Michigan State University is expected to receive $100 million from the federal government under a large omnibus spending bill being voted on this week.
A massive federal spending bill expected to be passed this week includes a provision allowing the U.S. Treasury to transfer billions of dollars into a fund which has already sent or promised $130 million to Detroit to tear down thousands of blighted buildings and is expected to provide at least tens of millions more.
A nuclear science research facility at Michigan State University is on track to get the full $100 million requested by the Obama administration to continue construction this fiscal year.
It’s a cutting edge multi-million dollar facility that has scientists and researchers excited. We’re talking about the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, also known as FRIB. Its walls are being built right now on the campus of Michigan State University.
The congressional year-end spending bill includes $300 million in federal funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and $100 million to continue building a facility for nuclear science at Michigan State University, officials said Wednesday.
Leaders in Lansing are hoping a new cutting-edge scientific research facility at Michigan State University might lead to an economic boom.
So you have particle, zooming through a particle accelerator at nearly half the speed of light. Your job: To keep it on track so it collides with a target. The collision provides information about such things as how the elements were formed.
The Greater Lansing region is taking steps to develop its fledgling particle acceleration industry. The Lansing Economic Area Partnership has created an action plan to attract new businesses to the region that relate to the research conducted at Michigan State University’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and the work being done at Niowave and Ionetix.
Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon had a surprise for federal officials visiting as part of the 50 Years of Beam program Thursday morning.
Construction is moving ahead of schedule at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University. Sen. Gary Peters toured the project yesterday to see its development firsthand. Current State’s Kevin Lavery spoke with Senator Peters about his observations.
U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) toured the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams or FRIB on Monday as part of his bipartisan effort to continue funding to the project and help shape new legislation regarding nation-wide research.
It's full steam ahead on the FRIB. In scientific terms, "What we're going to do is accelerate particles up to half the speed of light, smash those particles onto a target and then produce rare isotopes," said the FRIB's Deputy Project Manager, Paul Mantica.
