In the News
External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
Greater Lansing owes gratitude to the efforts of Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon. Her influence on the university, the region and the state will be evident for years to come. And one of its most important investments in decades is the new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, an internationally significant research facility that will keep MSU at the forefront of physics research.
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees authorized the university to proceed with the construction of a building that will house staff affiliated with the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. The 74,250-square-foot facility will include offices, conference rooms and a 265-seat lecture hall.
The project is located on the campus of Michigan State University. As 6 News’ Nick Perreault explains, the university is as excited as the president when he announced his $100 million budget recommendation this week.
The Obama administration on 2 February presented its budget request to Congress for the 2016 fiscal year, which begins in October. ScienceInsider tracked the numbers on rollout day and provided analysis. Nuclear physics receives a 5% increase, to $625 million. That’s consistent with the funding needed for construction of the new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University.
Twenty members of The Engineering Society of Detroit got an up close and personal look at the technology behind the nation’s No. 1 graduate program in nuclear physics Thursday, at an ESD members-only tour of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University.
Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams would receive the full $90 million requested for continued construction under a spending bill Congress hopes to pass this week to keep the federal government running.
It’s a cold day in East Lansing, but many are braving the cold to catch a glimpse of the next major step in a $730 million nuclear physics project.
At 6 a.m., work crews began pumping concrete into the 1,500 foot long hole that will one day contain the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
Hundreds pass the construction site for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams on MSU's campus each day, but few know exactly the importance of what will happen at the FRIB.
All across Michigan, eyes are on one of the state’s largest construction projects—the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, on the campus of Michigan State University.
The Michigan Chamber's mission statement calls for us to create conditions favorable to job creation and business growth in Michigan. That's why we're pleased to see this summer's construction work of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams on the campus of Michigan State University following the groundbreaking ceremony in March, as a premier new research facility unfolds and develops right here in mid-Michigan.
In East Lansing, construction continues on a three-quarter billion-dollar research facility that will position Michigan as a major leader in new technologies.
