Following Michigan Governor Whitmer’s Stay Home, Stay Safe executive order, FRIB has stopped project and operation activities. Access to the facility is limited to specially-designated employees whose in-person presence is strictly necessary for minimum basic operation, and a significant fraction of FRIB's workforce is teleworking. 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. FRIB has now demonstrated the accelerator Key Performance Parameter required at project completion. Read More

In light of the evolving COVID-19 situation, FRIB is postponing the in-person part of the "FRIB First Experiments: Proposal Preparation" workshop until fall 2020. Online presentations are scheduled for the original dates of 4-8 May 2020. 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