Due to the focused efforts of its staff, the FRIB cryogenic plant was completed in December 2017. It is now operational, and is on track to operate in 2018. Read More

FRIB partnered with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to design and build a state-of-the-art magnet. Read More

On 15 December, the MSU Board of Trustees (BOT) authorized FRIB to begin planning for new additions to the facility. Read More

The DOE-SC Office of Project Assessment’s (OPA) review of FRIB was held 5-7 December. Read More

Scientists participated in a livestream event on 1 December to discuss the impacts of the discovery of gravitational waves from two colliding neutron stars. Read More

A livestream event at 12:30 p.m. (EST) on 1 December will feature scientists discussing the nuclear astrophysics impacts of a groundbreaking gravitational-wave science discovery. Read More

FRIB marked significant accelerator progress this past fall, with the successful commissioning of the front end. FRIB’s front end was completed in May, 16 months ahead of schedule. Read More

Michigan State University is establishing an Accelerator Science and Engineering Traineeship (AS&E) program to address a national shortage in accelerator scientists and engineers. Read More

The FRIB cryogenic plant made its first liquid helium at 4.5 kelvin (K) on 16 November 2017. Read More

FRIB installed its first warm diagnostic chambers between the β=0.041 quarter-wave resonator cryomodules in its linear accelerator tunnel on 8 November. Read More

The first FRIB superconducting β=0.085 cryomodule was installed in its final position in FRIB’s linear accelerator tunnel on 1 November. Read More

Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov, chief scientist of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in the U.S. Department of Energy, and senior advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, visited FRIB. Read More

Bradley M. Sherrill, director of NSCL and scientific director at FRIB at Michigan State University, was awarded the 2018 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics from the American Physical Society. Read More

FRIB is featured in the city of Detroit's video pitch for development of a second headquarters for Amazon. Read More

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Associate Director for Experimental Research Remco Zegers has been elected as a 2017 Fellow of the American Physical Society. Read More

Professor Steven Lund of Michigan State University has been named the new director of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS). Read More

Two MSU physics and astronomy graduate students were among 52 graduate students from across the nation selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for its 2017 Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program. Read More

Three nuclear physics research projects involving Michigan State University researchers have won grants from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC). Read More

The FRIB Theory Alliance seeks candidates for an FRIB Theory Fellowship to conduct independent or collaborative research at a Partner Institution on nuclear structure, astrophysics, and/or fundamental symmetries relevant to FRIB. Read More

U.S. Representative John Moolenaar visited FRIB today. FRIB Project Director Thomas Glasmacher hosted Moolenaar during his visit. Read More

The first of twelve β=0.29 cryomodules was placed in the linear accelerator tunnel on 13 September. Read More

A new collaboration between nuclear physics and the statistical sciences at MSU is bringing together FRIB and the Department of Statistics and Probability. Read More

Two scientists who perform research at FRIB have received U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Early Career Research Program awards. Read More

The Low-Energy Community Meeting was held 3-4 August at Argonne National Laboratory. Read More

The FRIB Laboratory, which includes the FRIB Project and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at MSU, is making an economic impact across the United States. Read More

The first Accelerator Readiness Review (ARR) of FRIB was held 25-27 July, four years prior to the planned early completion of the FRIB Project. Read More

Researchers from the FRIB Theory Alliance are probing the limits of what can be considered an atomic nucleus. Read More

FRIB Project personnel placed the first and only β=0.085 matching cryomodule in the linear accelerator tunnel on 17 July. Read More

Andrew Klose from Augustana University in South Dakota and Adam Fritsch from Gonzaga University in Washington earned visiting awards through the 2017 FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science. Read More

The DOE-SC Office of Project Assessment’s (OPA) review of FRIB was held 27-29 June. Read More

Witold (Witek) Nazarewicz, FRIB chief scientist and a John A. Hannah distinguished professor at Michigan State University, received the 2017 Flerov Prize for his research titled “Theoretical studies of the atomic and nuclear properties of the heaviest elements.” Read More

Michigan State University Distinguished Professor Michael Thoennessen has been named editor in chief of the American Physical Society (APS). Read More

The fifteenth meeting of the FRIB Accelerator Systems Advisory Committee (ASAC) was held from 30 May to 1 June. Read More

Andrew Rogers, the first FRIB Visiting Scholar for Experimental Science, spent his time at FRIB preparing for an experiment to explore isomers in the neutron-rich hafnium region. Read More

In May, FRIB installed two vertical beamline sections in its front-end area. Read More

The Experimental Systems Advisory Committee (ESAC) held a review of FRIB experimental systems 3-5 May. Read More

Civil construction on the FRIB Project achieved beneficial occupancy on 24 March. Beneficial occupancy is the stage of construction in which the facility can be used for its intended purpose before final completion. Read More

The sixteenth Exotic Beam Summer School (EBSS2017) will be held at Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory from 23-29 July. Read More

The assembly and installation of all components and diagnostics for the upper Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) line was completed on 6 March. Read More

The first FRIB superconducting β=0.041 cryomodule was installed on the beamline in FRIB’s linear accelerator tunnel on 1 March. Read More

The FRIB Project reached another significant milestone in February with the successful testing of the first half-wave resonator cryomodule. Read More

Filomena Nunes received MSU’s 2017 Inspirational Woman of the Year Award in the Professional Achievement category. Read More

In December 2016, the radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) was assembled and tuned in the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams linear accelerator tunnel, marking a significant technical milestone for the FRIB Project. Read More

Civil construction of the FRIB Project is scheduled to reach beneficial occupancy in March 2017. Read More