External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.

  • 27 June 2013
  • Office of Senator Carl Levin

The Senate Appropriations Committee today approved legislation that fully funds President Obama’s request for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University, which would allow for construction to begin in fiscal year 2014, Michigan Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow announced.

  • 27 June 2013
  • Lansing State Journal

A Senate committee today approved a $55 million funding request that would allow construction to move ahead on the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University.

  • 27 June 2013
  • MLive

Michigan State University's half-billion-dollar Facility for Rare Isotope Beams has taken another step toward fruition.

http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2013/06/michigan_state_frib_project…
  • 25 May 2013
  • MSUToday

Back in the 1970s, Bay Cast Inc. built parts for the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at MSU, parts that accelerated beams carrying charged particles to velocities nearly half the speed of light. This past year that same Bay City-based company designed and built a piece of equipment for the next generation of equipment at MSU. Its job: To slow down the fast-moving beams.

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/bay-city-company-builds-steel-doughnut-for-f…
  • 29 April 2013
  • Lansing State Journal

MSU facts at a glance. Among the items: Ranked no. 1 in nuclear physics - ahead of M.I.T - by U.S. News & World Report.

  • 21 April 2013
  • Lansing State Journal

Proposed federal funding of $55 million for development of Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams is most welcome.

  • 11 April 2013
  • Lansing State Journal

The White House has made its biggest funding request yet for the development of a nuclear research facility at Michigan State University

  • 11 April 2013
  • The State News

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama submitted his Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal allocating increased funds for higher education.

http://statenews.com/article/2013/04/frib-might-get-55-million-from-federal-gov…
  • 9 April 2013
  • Lansing State Journal

Faculty members at Michigan State University are at the forefront of national efforts to rethink education in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. I am excited to see science come to life on campus during the MSU Science Festival.

  • 14 March 2013
  • The Times Herald

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams is still inching forward, although uncertainty over the federal budget must keep supporters of the Michigan State University-based project concerned.

  • 4 February 2013
  • The State News

The fate of one of MSU’s most paramount projects is on shaky ground as negotiations between the university and Washington grow increasingly nuclear.

http://statenews.com/article/2013/02/frib-funding-crucial-to-msu-michigan-econo…
  • 29 January 2013
  • Lansing State Journal

A national advisory group on Tuesday backed a ranking of federal funding priorities that places a planned Michigan State University facility second out of three nuclear physics research centers if the government can no longer support all three.