Michigan State University researchers have discovered that one of the most important reactions in the universe can get a huge and unexpected boost inside exploding stars known as supernovae. This finding also challenges ideas behind how some of the Earth’s heavy elements are made. Read More

Three scientists who will perform research at FRIB have been named Fellows 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

Marking an exciting step toward commencing scientific user operation, FRIB issued its first call for proposals today. The call invites scientific users the world over to submit their requests to use FRIB to conduct their scientific experiments. Read More

Ranked #1 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, MSU’s nuclear physics graduate program leverages the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and the next-generation facility under construction now, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Office of Project Assessment held its independent project review of FRIB via remote participation 3-5 November. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has approved the project baseline and the start of construction for the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA) project. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a grant to a team of researchers led by FRIB physicists. The team's work involves developing algorithms for quantum computers. Read More

The Technical Systems Advisory Committee held a review of FRIB via remote participation 29 September – 1 October. The main focus of the review was to assess overall FRIB Project development since the last review in April. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy has designated FRIB as a DOE Office of Science user facility. U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced the designation at a special ceremony. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Nuclear Physics approved Critical Decision 1 (CD-1: Approve Alternative Selection and Cost Range) for the High Rigidity Spectrometer project 16 September. Read More

FRIB hosted or contributed to a number of online summer schools and seminars to allow students, educators, and early-career scientists the opportunity to explore the world of science. Read More

The 2020 Low Energy Community Meeting (LECM) was held online 10-12 August. Members of the low-energy nuclear physics community remotely attended the meeting. Read More

Nuclear physicists using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies participated in a workshop at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, bringing together experimentalists and theorists to produce a white paper. Read More

The FRIB Users Organization Executive Committee has an update on some of the goings-on in the recent months, including elections, and a preview of the upcoming Low Energy Community Meeting. Read More

In January, FRIB partnered with Argonne National Laboratory to plan the development of SOLARIS, a dual-mode spectrometer for a broad range of reactions studies at FRIB using reaccelerated beams. Read More

On 23 June, the final beta=0.53 cryomodule was moved into the linear accelerator tunnel. It is the final of 46 cryomodules total in the tunnel. Read More

MSU researchers were awarded a grant to develop an instrument that will enable breakthroughs in nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics. Read More

FRIB will host a number of online summer schools to allow students and early-career scientists the opportunity to explore the world of science. Read More

Researchers from the FRIB Laboratory at MSU have taken a major step toward a theoretical first-principles description of neutrinoless double-beta decay. Read More

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

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Physics Facilities and Project Management Division and the National Science Foundation Nuclear Physics Program held the annual progress review of the SEparator for CApture Reactions (SECAR) recoil separator project 11-12 June. Read More

MSU students Jacob Watkins and Erin White earned three-year fellowships from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. They are graduate research assistants at the FRIB Laboratory. Read More

MSU researchers are participating in a $3.7 million National Science Foundation project to advance nuclear physics experiments. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Office of Project Assessment held its independent project review of FRIB via remote participation 12-14 May. Read More

FRIB is hosting a number of online summer seminars to allow scientists, theorists, and users the opportunity to discuss and explore a variety of science topics. Read More

The FRIB First Experiments: Proposal Preparation Workshop was held online 4-8 May. The workshop offered FRIB users support for preparing proposals for consideration by the first FRIB Program Advisory Committee. Read More

Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mark Spieker from Florida State University are the award recipients for the FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science 2020. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Project Assessment conducted a DOE-SC Independent Project Review of the High Rigidity Spectrometer project 28-30 April. Read More

The Technical Systems Advisory Committee held a review of FRIB via remote participation 21-23 April. The main focus of the review was to assess overall FRIB Project development since the last review in October 2019. Read More

MSU Professor Alexandra Gade collaborated with colleagues from Japan and France on an extensive review article in the Reviews of Modern Physics journal on the forces behind the observed shell evolution of exotic nuclei. Read More

A team of researchers, including scientists from FRIB and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at MSU, have made a discovery that could change how scientists understand fundamental forces acting inside atomic nuclei. Read More

MSU student Maya Watts, a student research assistant at the FRIB Laboratory, has earned the 2019-2020 Jefferson Science Associates Minority/Female Undergraduate Research Assistantship. Read More

On 19 March, FRIB accelerated an argon-36 beam through 37 of 46 superconducting cryomodules to 204 million electron-volts per nucleon or 57 percent of the speed of light. Read More

The FRIB First Experiments: Proposal Preparation Workshop 4-8 May has moved to an online format due to the COVID-19 situation. The workshop is an opportunity for users to obtain support in preparing proposals for consideration. Read More

The MSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted the All-Hands meeting of the Honeywell-U.S. Department of Energy National Security Campus Radar Consortium on 18-19 February. Read More

On 13 February, FRIB hosted Dr. Chris Fall, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Dr. Fall was welcomed by Michigan State University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D. Read More

The FRIB Users Organization held an election for three positions on its executive committee in December 2019. Members voted for two general members and one member of the standing operations subcommittee. Read More

On 12 December, FRIB hosted representatives from the University of Pretoria (UP) in South Africa. The visitors included Dr. Tawana Kupe, vice-chancellor of UP. Read More