U.S. Particle Accelerator School

Accelerators are a key driver of science discovery and industry and are central to the discovery missions of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC). The U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) is a national graduate program that provides graduate-level training and workforce development in the science of particle beams and associated accelerator technologies.  

Professor Steven Lund of Michigan State University is the director of USPAS. His four-year renewable term began on 1 December 2017. 

USPAS started in 1981 and convenes twice a year to offer a broad range of graduate-level accelerator science and engineering courses in an intensive-school format. Training and documentation produced by the sessions has been recognized for excellence and has had a profound positive impact on the field. 

The USPAS collaboration includes seven DOE-SC laboratories, one DOE National Nuclear Security Agency laboratory, and two universities.

Ready to apply or have questions? Please apply and inquire through our FRIB graduate studies page at frib.msu.edu/grad. 

Support for several kinds of graduate fellowships in ASET is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of High Energy Physics, and the DOE-SC Office of Nuclear Physics.