Graduate Students

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).

Steven LundProfessor Steven Lund of Michigan State University is the director of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS)(link is external). 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.

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

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Michigan State University (MSU) operates the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) as a user facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science(link is external) (DOE SC), with financial support from and furthering the mission of the DOE‑SC Office of Nuclear Physics. FRIB is registered to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and ISO 45001.

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