News for FRIB scientific users
The FRIB Laboratory regularly posts information of interest to the scientific user community. Please visit this page to keep up-to-date on laboratory information.
Fellowships, awards, and honors
FRIB Laboratory Update for Users
FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers
FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science
2024
- Call for proposals for PAC Period 3 for non-proprietary research
- International research team targets cancer by focusing on heavy-ion therapy research
- Winners of 2024 FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers named
- Kellen McGee wins Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Doctoral Student Award
- UK-funded FAUST project to enable new experiments at FRIB
- 2024 FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science names award winners
- FRIB creates five new isotopes
- FRIB users to construct next-generation neutron detector
- Investigating the conditions for a new stellar process
- Winners of 2024 FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers named
- Kellen McGee wins Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Doctoral Student Award
2023
- Member of FRIB scientific user community named one of ‘Brilliant 10’ for 2023 by Popular Science magazine
- Article features FRIB, North Carolina State University research collaboration
- New joint French-U.S. laboratory to advance fundamental nuclear physics and astrophysics research being established at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University
- Global superconducting radio frequency community attends FRIB-hosted conference in Grand Rapids
- Scientific discovery deepens understanding of neutron stars
- 2023 FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science names award winners
- Article in PRX Quantum examines a new method to search for invisible particles called sterile neutrinos
- Member of FRIB User Community named 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
- Apply for the FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science 2023
- FRIB issues second call for proposals for FRIB beam time
- Visiting professor at FRIB awarded a grant by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- MIT’s Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz wins APS’s 2022 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics
- MIT team builds new laser spectroscopy system
- User community focuses on realizing full scientific potential of national user facilities and reinforcing commitment to foster diverse scientific workforce
- Member of FRIB user community earns 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
- FRIB’s first experiment concludes successfully
2022
- 2022 FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science names award winner
- Winners of 2022 FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers named
- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams opens its doors to discovery
- Members of FRIB user community named 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows
- International research network welcomes new partners to expand science potential
- FRIB scientific user receives American Chemical Society's Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
- Nuclear Physics News features FRIB partner the Association for Research at University Nuclear Accelerators
2021
- FRIB scientific user receives Zdzisław Szymański prize
- High Rigidity Spectrometer moves closer to Critical Decision 2/3A approval following two independent reviews
- FRIB Theory Alliance looks toward engagement opportunities in 2022
- FRIB's nuclear data center supports users
- Working in stewardship science: An early-career perspective
- Members of FRIB user community named 2021 American Physical Society Fellows
- FRIB announces first PAC-recommended experiments
- User community resolves to keep FRIB as its top priority, continue support for FRIB-TA and JINA, and reinforce commitment to foster diverse scientific workforce
- First winners of FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers named
- 2021 FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science names award winner
- First winners of FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers named
- ReA6 hosts first experiment
- NSCL accelerates first beam in ReA6
- Hansen Postdoctoral Fellow collaborates with FRIB scientists
- Proposals for first FRIB experiments align with national priorities, span full FRIB capabilities
2020
- FRIB researchers named 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows
- U.S. Department of Energy designates FRIB as DOE Office of Science user facility
- User community sees FRIB as top priority, endorses support for FRIB-TA, JINA
- FRIB Users Organization holds elections, prepares for FRIB user operation
- Three FRIB scientific users earn U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science awards
- 2020 FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science names award winners
- High Rigidity Spectrometer moves closer to CD-1 approval following independent review
- FRIB users engage in FRIB First Experiments: Proposal Preparation Workshop in anticipation of FRIB science
- FRIB users make discovery that challenges nuclear theory: Researchers test the way we understand forces in the universe
- FRIB First Experiments: Proposal Preparation Workshop set for 4-8 May online