External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland seized the world record for the highest-energy collisions in 2010, it also sealed the fate of the leading US particle collider. The Tevatron, at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, was closed the following year to save money.
Since 2008 the number of colliders in the U.S. has dwindled from four to one. And the last surviving member of the species, the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., may soon fall victim to the same budgetary blight that has already felled so many other towering scientific facilities.
Hendrik Schatz studies exploding stars—or more specifically, what connection exploding stars have to our planet’s existence and the existence of elements on Earth today.
GOP challengers to U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Howell, say the incumbent congressman has chosen the national spotlight over representing his constituents’ interests in Washington, D.C. Rogers mentioned his role in securing funding for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University and for a soon-to-built interchange at Interstate 96 and Latson Road in Livingston County.
"Go Green!" is often heard on MSU's campus, but when a note from professors worried about the survival of oak trees near the FRIB project goes viral, it sounds a little different. An email circulated urging concerned faculty and staff to contact the administration, and ask them to consider a change to the Facility for Rare Isotope building plans near the intersection of Bogue Street and Shaw Lane. Some student say they don't have an issue, so why should the professors?
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, is a proposed construction project at MSU that would help the university continue its research in nuclear physics at a faster pace than it ever has before. If the project, which is proposed to cost more than half a billion dollars, is completed, it would not only benefit the scientific community, but help give the university worldwide recognition as a main contributor to the research of nuclear physics.
By all accounts, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams project, or FRIB, is on track. The facility reached another milestone Monday when the U.S. Department of Energy announced the project passed its assessments. Now it's ready for the next phase.
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University has cleared another hurdle on the path to fruition.
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams is one step closer to construction after flying through two evaluations from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, or DOE-SC.
The National Research Council says Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams project should remain a major priority. A report issued June 27 by the NRC outlines the accomplishments of the nuclear physics field during the last decade and recommends a strategy for the future, including, as its first recommendation, “the timely completion of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and the initiation of its physics program.”
Nuclear physics is a discovery-driven enterprise aimed at understanding the fundamental nature of visible matter in the universe. For the past hundred years, new knowledge of the nuclear world has also directly benefited society through many innovative applications.
At its June 22 meeting, the Michigan State University Board of Trustees adopted 2012-13 budget development guidelines calling for a $14 per credit hour tuition increase for in-state undergraduate students. The budget also calls for a $44 per credit hour tuition increase for nonresident undergraduate students.
