External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.

  • 29 April 2012
  • Lansing State Journal

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams is important for mid-Michigan. That’s easy to see: A billion-dollar impact over the next decade, 5,000 construction jobs, employment for 400 scientists, engineers and others.

  • 28 April 2012
  • Lansing State Journal

Why is the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams important to pre-K12 education? Why should local educators be concerned with its funding? For one simple reason—it is the future here and now.

  • 28 April 2012
  • Lansing State Journal

In the 1990s, leaders across Greater Lansing realized that General Motors would soon make an important decision about its outdated factories here.

  • 27 April 2012
  • Lansing State Journal

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams project at Michigan State University has received a favorable review from the U.S. Department of Energy, allowing the MSU to set baseline costs, scope and schedule for the $615 million project and to proceed with construction, pending further DOE approval.

  • 25 April 2012
  • The State News

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, was thrown a $40 million lifeline in the search for funding to push the project forward at MSU.

http://statenews.com/index.php/article/2012/04/us_officials_commit_more_funding…
  • 25 April 2012
  • MLive

A congressional subcommittee's appropriations bill budgets $40 million for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University in 2013, increasing the project's funding by $18 million from the federal government's proposal.

  • 25 April 2012
  • Livingston Daily

U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, today announced the House Energy & Water Appropriations bill contains $40 million in funding for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University.

  • 25 April 2012
  • Battle Creek Enquirer

Lawmakers want to spend more money on a proposed nuclear physics research facility at Michigan State University than the administration requested for next year.

  • 24 April 2012
  • Michigan Radio

U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow say a Senate subcommittee has significantly increased the recommended annual funding for a planned $600 million physics research facility at Michigan State University.

http://michiganradio.org/post/michigan-state-university-physics-project-gets-bo…
  • 24 April 2012
  • MLive

U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow say a Senate subcommittee has significantly increased the recommended annual funding for a planned $600 million physics research facility at Michigan State University.

http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2012/04/levin_stabenow_panel_ups_fu…
  • 17 April 2012
  • Michigan House Republicans Newsroom

The House Committee on Energy and Technology on Tuesday adopted House Resolution 218, which calls for the federal government to keep its promise to Michigan and fully fund the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University.

  • 6 April 2012
  • Lansing State Journal

The nuclear physics community has until January to tell the U.S. Department of Energy how spending priorities – including a planned research facility for Michigan State – could be revised given tightened federal budgets.