In the News
External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
As scientists from different disciplines and regions help design a world-class nuclear research facility at Michigan State University, a team of MSU researchers will conduct one of the first major studies of how teams work together.
As scientists from different disciplines an regions help design a world-class nuclear research facility at Michigan State University, a team of MSU researchers will conduct one of the first major studies of how teams work together.
A stop-gap funding bill that lawmakers hope will keep the federal government operating through March 27 would keep federal funding steady for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams planned for Michigan State University.
Michigan State University's planned $680 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, FRIB, received an expected green light Friday from the school's board of trustees for $55 million in funding for construction. The approval was largely an internal, administrative task, so the university will be ready to begin construction if the necessary government funds are appropriated next year.
After a season of uncertainty, work has begun again on the future site of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. Work crews are putting in pilings for an earth retention system on a site just south of Michigan State University’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. Thomas Glasmacher reads it as a good sign.
Michigan State University trustees have approved the next step in the development of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB. WKAR's Scott Pohl reports.
In its first meeting of the new academic year, the MSU Board of Trustees voted Friday to approve a proposed $55 million budget for the Facility of Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB. The trustees also approved an authorization to plan for a proposed $18 million expansion of the north end zone of Spartan Stadium.
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?
