External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
Michigan's congressional delegation, hard put to collaborate on much besides autos and the Great Lakes, needs to put one more item on its unity list: the suddenly endangered Facility for Rare Isotope Beams planned for Michigan State University.
Michigan's congressional delegation must pressure the White House and Congress to protect funding for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University.
Earthmovers and cranes are in place. Steam tunnels are being moved, and Michigan State University has hundreds of construction jobs ready to fill for a $600-million nuclear research facility.
What? No FRIB? That was a gasp and collective outcry you heard across Michigan on Wednesday when Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in Detroit that federal money is uncertain for the $600-million project.
Comments by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu at a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club this morning raised questions about the future of the Facility of Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University.
Federal funding for a $600 million nuclear research facility under development at Michigan State University could be in doubt in the face of the nation's economic problems and the federal budget squeeze, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Wednesday.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., issued the following statement after public reports that Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in Michigan today that the department has not decided whether to move forward with the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University.
The fate of a $600 million federally funded research project that would cement Michigan's reputation as a center for advanced technologies and atomic research came into question today as Steven Chu, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary, said funding for the project is uncertain.
The University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University and Western Michigan University continue to push the boundaries of discovery in the area of biomedical research as they search for better ways to cure diseases and develop new medical devices to help patients navigate their disabilities. And our many other colleges and universities are working hard to educate the next generation of scientists and engineers as well.
The first glass panels now are being put up in the exterior courtyard area of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and the university continues to prepare utilities at the future site for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, campus construction officials said today.
Central Michigan University's department of physics is planning to hire three tenure-track faculty to assist Michigan Sate University research rare isotopes. The new faculty will join the two current faculty members working on the research, Physics Professors Joseph Finck and Mihai Horoi. Finck and Horoi have already been working with other colleagues at MSU's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory studying atoms.
The great thing about Michigan State University is that I could do Tech Tours from now until Doomsday and they'd never run out of cool things to show me. My final visit was a repeat with Thomas Glasmacher, director of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, the $600 million atom smasher MSU will build between now and 2017.
