Michigan State University has released a new video showcasing the university as one of the nation’s leading research institutions. The FRIB Laboratory and several of its team members are featured throughout the video. Read More

Sebastian König, an assistant professor of physics at North Carolina State University and FRIB Theory Alliance bridge faculty member, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. Read More

The FRIB Program Advisory Committee has peer-reviewed the first set of science proposals for experiments that will be conducted after FRIB commences user operation in early 2022. Read More

The 2021 Low Energy Community Meeting (LECM) was held online 9-11 August, jointly hosted by the FRIB Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. Read More

The FRIB-affiliated Lee Research Group authored a research paper (“Rodeo Algorithm for Quantum Computing”) that was recently published in Physical Review Letters. Read More

On 10 August, Michigan State University Board of Trustees members Renee Knake Jefferson and Rema Vassar visited FRIB. Read More

FRIB/NSCL remotely hosted 16 undergraduate students from across the country for the 2021 Nuclear Science Summer School (NS3) from 2-6 August. Read More

The 28th Physics of Atomic Nuclei (PAN) program remotely hosted 36 high-school students from 18 states 26-30 July. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics - Center for the Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE) organized the online workshop to give future scientists a taste of nuclear astrophysics. Read More

FRIB resumes its on-site functions 1 August in line with MSU requirements: Effective 1 August, all individuals are required to wear face coverings indoors. Read More

The FRIB Users Organization Executive Committee and the FRIB Theory Alliance Executive Board have announced the winners of the inaugural FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers. Read More

Scientists from the University of Surrey and the FRIB Laboratory at MSU teamed up to explore the origin of aluminum-26, a rare isotope that offers a window into dying stars. Read More

Jonathon Howard, a graduate assistant at the FRIB Laboratory, is the 2021 recipient of the Klaus and Jean Timmerhaus Graduate Scholarship. Read More

FRIB remotely hosted the 2021 International Conference on Radio-Frequency Superconductivity (SRF’21) from 28 June to 2 July. Read More

FRIB has successfully commissioned its liquid lithium charge stripper installed in FRIB’s linear accelerator. FRIB is the first operating accelerator facility to use liquid lithium to charge-strip heavy-ion beams. Read More

Dennis Mücher from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, is the award recipient for the FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science 2021. Read More

A team of FRIB scientific users have completed the first experiment using SOLARIS, the SOLenoid spectrometer Apparatus for ReactIon Studies, in the Active-Target Time-Projection Chamber (AT-TPC) mode. Read More

Five scientists who will perform research at FRIB have received 2021 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 Science (DOE-SC) Office of Project Assessment (OPA) held its independent project review of FRIB via remote participation 11-13 May. Read More

Following the commissioning of NSCL’s ReAccelerator facility ReA6 on 16 April, the NSCL stand-alone ReA6 user program began as scheduled on 12 May with its first experiment. Read More

Zachary Constan, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and FRIB outreach coordinator, and Daniel Puentes, doctoral student in physics at FRIB, have won awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS). Read More

Maya Wallach is a high-school student who follows the Michigan State University (MSU) physics curriculum and takes courses at MSU. She is gaining first-hand experience at the FRIB Laboratory as she pursues a science career. Read More

Following its fifth Accelerator Readiness Review (ARR05) 21- 22 April, FRIB commissioned the entire linear accelerator (linac) on 25 April. Read More

FRIB’s fifth Accelerator Readiness Review (ARR05) was held 21-22 April to assess FRIB’s readiness to operate all segments of the superconducting linear accelerator. Read More

An international research team helps create cosmic conditions at RIKEN’s heavy-ion accelerator in Japan Read More

The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) reached an important milestone on 16 April with first acceleration of beam in the ReAccelerator facility ReA6. Read More

The Technical Systems Advisory Committee (TSAC) held a review of FRIB via remote participation 13-15 April. The main focus of the review was to assess overall FRIB Project development since the last review in October 2020. Read More

Two FRIB researchers have created a computer model to help explain and make nuclear discoveries. Read More

Charlie Hultquist, a research assistant at the FRIB Laboratory and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), has earned a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Read More

Sylvester Agbemava joined the FRIB Laboratory as a P. Gregers Hansen Postdoctoral Fellow in October 2020. During his time at the laboratory, Agbemava has worked with the nuclear theorists at FRIB to share ideas and form collaborations with other scientists. Read More

As FRIB readies to commence user operation in early 2022, scientists submitted experiment proposals in response to FRIB’s first call for proposals. Read More

The FRIB Laboratory is entering the eleventh year of its nuclear science research in the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium (NSSC). Funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration, eleven universities comprise NSSC. Read More

A new grant helps harvest unused FRIB isotopes for a variety of research fields. Read More

This year-in-review video highlights FRIB’s greatest achievements in 2020. Read More