Associate Professor of Physics and NSCL Associate Director for Education and Outreach Artemis Spyrou received the 2018 Graduate Academic Advisor Award from the MSU College of Natural Science. Read More

In November 2018, FRIB installed the first of five unique superconducting warm-iron quadrupole magnets. This milestone was reached following magnet design, construction, assembly, and testing. Read More

This year, the FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science awarded visiting awards to Ben Crider from Mississippi State University and Matt Amthor from Bucknell University. Read More

The American Physical Society awarded former NSCL graduate student Barbara Jacak the 2019 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics. The Bonner Prize is awarded annually to recognize and encourage outstanding experimental research in nuclear physics. Read More

FRIB invites the community to a piano recital on 10 December and public talk on 14 December in Room 1300 FRIB Laboratory. Read More

NSCL Associate Director for Experimental Research Remco Zegers has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Read More

The American Physical Society awarded former NSCL graduate student Ania Kwiatkowski with the 2018 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics. The award recognizes outstanding early career experimentalists in nuclear physics. Read More

The Engineering News-Record Midwest recognized the FRIB Project in the Higher Education/Research category of its 2018 Best Projects award program. Read More

GRETA, a new high-resolution gamma-ray detector system that will be used at FRIB, has achieved an important project milestone – Critical Decision-3a (CD-3a) approval by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Read More

The FRIB Laboratory has successfully passed its first annual Information Security Management System audit and is now registered to the external ISO 27001 information security standard. Read More

The Department of Energy Office of Science’s Office of Project Assessment’s review of FRIB was held 6-8 November. Read More

Three members of the FRIB user community were named 2018 American Physical Society (APS) Fellows: Scott Bogner, Gaute Hagen, and Kate Jones. Read More

The Experimental Systems Advisory Committee held a review of FRIB experimental systems 16-18 October. Read More

Paul Gueye, an associate professor of physics at FRIB, recently met with government representatives, and local and international experts in Senegal, West Africa, to discuss a nuclear physics bridge training program. Read More

MSU nominated Garrett King, a student research assistant at NSCL, for the Marshall Scholarship. It is a national scholarship that supports up to forty U.S. students to study at a graduate level at a United Kingdom institution in any field of study. Read More

FRIB staff have successfully completed the repeatability testing for maintenance of the laboratory’s magnets. Read More

Recently, FRIB successfully completed beam-instrumentation testing. Beam instrumentation ensures that FRIB’s heavy-ion beam – the highest power heavy-ion beam in the world--doesn’t damage the linear accelerator. Read More

The Accelerator Systems Advisory Committee (ASAC) held its eighteenth meeting 2-4 October. Read More

On 3 August, FRIB successfully circulated liquid lithium and established a lithium film in its charge stripper. FRIB is the first in the world to use liquid lithium as a charge stripper. Read More

FRIB and the Department of Statistics and Probability at MSU have formed a new collaboration between nuclear physics and the statistical sciences to help determine the existence of rare isotopes. Read More

FRIB's beam-energy upgrade would double beam energy and yield higher intensities of rare isotope beams. Read More

A new video highlights FRIB from its conception to its future, and features an animation showing how rare isotopes are created. Read More

A new vision system will allow remote-handling operators to view and record work taking place. Read More

In 2017, FRIB established the MSU Cryogenic Initiative with the MSU College of Engineering, and MSU established an Accelerator Science and Engineering Traineeship program. Read More

FRIB invites the community to a harp recital at the laboratory on 14 September in Room 1300 FRIB Laboratory. Read More

More than 200 scientists from around the world participated in the Nuclear Structure 2018 conference at FRIB. Read More

FRIB and NSCL provided 4,000 tours to members of the public during the open house on 18 August. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Office of Nuclear Physics awarded a two-year grant to Dr. Yue Hao for his research on beam dynamics for electron-ion colliders. Hao is an associate professor of physics at FRIB and has a joint appointment in the MSU Department of Physics and Astronomy. Read More

FRIB achieved a major milestone by accelerating its first beams in three of forty-six superconducting cryomodules. Read More

MSU will host the 36th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory from 22-28 July. Read More

On 16 July, FRIB hosted Dr. Chris Fall, principal deputy director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Read More

FRIB invites the community to a public talk on quantum computing and the entanglement frontier at the laboratory on 27 July. Read More

Researchers from MSU and the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan discovered eight new rare isotopes of the elements phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, scandium and, most importantly, calcium. These are the heaviest isotopes of these elements ever found. Read More

FRIB invites the community to a piano recital at the laboratory on 20 July in Room 1300 FRIB Laboratory. Read More

The FRIB Laboratory is entering the eighth year of its nuclear engineering partnership with the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium (NSSC). Funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration, eight universities comprise NSSC. Read More

Two scientists who perform research at NSCL and will perform research at FRIB have received U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program awards. Read More

On 27 June, FRIB hosted Professor Dr. Richard Baum of the Theranostics Center for Molecular Radiotherapy and Molecular Imaging, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, in Germany. Read More

Two scientists who perform research at NSCL and will perform research at FRIB have received U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program awards. Read More

The public is invited to get behind the scenes at FRIB and NSCL during an open house scheduled for Saturday, 18 August. The event will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with last tours starting at 4 p.m. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Office of Nuclear Physics awarded the “Isotope Development and Production for Research and Applications” grant to an MSU chemistry professor. Read More

MSU is hosting the summer 2018 session of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School, a national graduate-level training and workforce development program in accelerator science and engineering. Read More

As the 150th anniversary of the formulation of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements looms, a Michigan State University professor probes the table’s limits in a recent Nature Physics "Perspective." Read More

FRIB continues technical construction, and another significant milestone has been reached with all cryomodules now in production. Read More

The ISO9001 quality management system (QMS) audit was completed in May by FRIB’s external certification body, National Sanitation Foundation-International Strategic Relations. Read More

FRIB hosted a soprano and piano recital at the laboratory on 25 May, featuring soprano Lia Naviliat-Cuncic and pianist Manuel Vieillard. Read More

FRIB Homeland Security Officer Melissa Congleton has received the Ruth Jameyson “Above and Beyond” Award from MSU. This award recognizes support staff members who are pursuing a post-baccalaureate degree while also performing "above and beyond” in the scope of their duties at MSU. Read More

The DOE-SC Office of Project Assessment’s review of FRIB was held 15-17 May. The main focus of the review was to assess overall progress since the last review in December 2017. Read More

FRIB invites the community to a soprano and piano recital at the laboratory on 25 May in Room 1300 FRIB Laboratory. Read More

FRIB is hosting a summer school focused on the scientific discoveries resulting from the recent observation of a neutron-star merger. Read More

From "The Conversation": Nearly 70 years ago, astronomer Paul Merrill observed the light coming from a distant star and saw signatures of the element technetium. Read More

Gabriel Moreau, a research assistant for Professor Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic at NSCL and in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been named a recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Read More

The Accelerator Systems Advisory Committee (ASAC) met 10-12 April. ASAC focused on the progress of FRIB’s Accelerator Systems Division in the last six months. Read More

FRIB’s target module assembly is complete and it has passed first mechanical tests. Read More

FRIB, with support from NSCL, has designed and built a field mapper for use on the magnets of the fragment separator, which will remove contaminants from the beam and collect the desired isotopes for research. The mapper design is the first of its kind for the laboratory. Read More

The second FRIB Decay Station workshop was held in January 2018. The Decay Station will be a modular and flexible multi-detector system for study of nuclear decays. Read More

A number of summer schools are planned for 2018 to allow students and young researchers the opportunity to explore the world of science. Read More

Michigan State University's nuclear physics graduate program maintained its No. 1 ranking, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking for best graduate schools. Read More

The seventeenth Exotic Beam Summer School (EBSS2018) will be held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 24-30 June. Read More

Alexandra Gade, professor of physics and NSCL chief scientist, received the 2018 William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award from MSU. Read More

Today the MSU Board of Trustees (BOT) authorized FRIB to proceed with plans for new additions to the facility. Read More

Music composer David Biedenbender from the MSU Music Department won the 138th annual American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize for his work titled “Cyclotron.” Read More

FRIB continues technical construction, and another significant milestone has been reached with all cryomodules now in production. Cryomodules are key components of FRIB’s superconducting linear accelerator. Read More