In the News
External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
Researchers at the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE)’s Argonne National Laboratory recently acquired two decommissioned magnets from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners from hospitals in Minnesota and California that will find a new home as proving grounds for instruments used in high-energy and nuclear physics experiments.
Graham Peaslee of the Hope College chemistry faculty received a second major grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to create a system for recycling at the atomic level. The new collection system includes a means of retrieving the isotopes, which are otherwise lost, and a methodology for recovering specific types. The system is being created with a particular emphasis on how it can function with the federally funded Facility for Rare Isotope Beams that will be operated by Michigan State University, which is also home of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.
Five of MSU’s graduate programs—elementary education, secondary education, rehabilitation counseling, organizational psychology and nuclear physics—were recognized as No. 1 programs for U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools.
The economic fallout from the construction of a nuclear science research facility at Michigan State University is already being felt in Livingston County.
It's a $730 million investment billed as Michigan's largest construction project, and its economic impact will be discussed at Tuesday's Good Morning Livingston breakfast.
FRIB isn’t set to be complete until 2020, but that didn’t stop crews from driving through the elements to complete a big concrete pour.
Today’s wintry mix of snow, rain and sleet is not stopping Michigan State University’s major nuclear science project from moving forward into a new construction phase.
Crews are to pour more than 350 truckloads of concrete as part of the foundation for a tunnel section of a new nuclear science facility at Michigan State University.
There is so much concrete being poured at Michigan State University's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams today it would create a two-foot-thick blanket on top of the football field at nearby Spartan Stadium.
Tuesday morning's bad weather didn't stop workers from pouring concrete at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams on MSU's campus. It was the largest concrete pour of the FRIB project, with more than 3,350 truck loads dumping concrete all day.
Funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science, MSU, and the State of Michigan, FRIB is a $730 million project that will one day play host to the study of rare isotopes. Rare isotopes are not normally found in nature. Most are forged in spectacular cosmic processes and in rare isotope accelerators—something that would take place within the confines of FRIB.
In as few as five years, the construction workers pouring concrete and raising steel near the corner of Bogue Street and Wilson Road on Michigan State University's campus will be replaced with scientists. It's easy to believe in the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a $730 million nuclear science research facility, now that work is happening, said Lou Anna Simon, the university's president, sitting in her sunlit office on the fourth floor of the Hannah Administration Building.
