FRIB Project News
Thursday, Jun 6, 2013
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) assessed FRIB’s progress on June 4-5. The...
Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013
FRIB has successfully completed the annual ISO 14001 (Environmental) and OHSAS 18001 (Safety and...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
FRIB has successfully completed the annual ISO 9001 surveillance audit of the Quality Management...
Friday, May 10, 2013
The high power beam dump is required to intercept all primary beam at powers of up to 325 kW. The...
Thursday, Apr 11, 2013
The baseline charge stripper is a flowing windowless film of liquid lithium approximately 10 µm...
Monday, Dec 10, 2012
Final design of FRIB technical systems is underway and progress in the Accelerator Systems Division...
Thursday, Nov 15, 2012
Steering high power ion beams cleanly through the FRIB driver linac and onto the rare isotope...
Friday, Oct 26, 2012
FRIB will need a production target different than what is presently used at NSCL. The beam power is...
Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012
Faculty members from Central Michigan University have joined into an academic partnership with...
Monday, Oct 1, 2012
Last week, the MSU Board of Trustees authorized construction of a new high bay for FRIB. The 27,000...
Friday, Sep 28, 2012
A team of MSU researchers has been awarded a grant to study how teams work together. The three-year...
Friday, Sep 7, 2012
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees has given its approval to the next step in the...
Friday, Aug 24, 2012
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University continues to progress with...
Tuesday, Jul 31, 2012
The second workshop on the collection of rare isotopes at FRIB, or Isotope Harvesting, was held on...
Tuesday, Jun 26, 2012
In its fourth decadal survey of nuclear physics, the National Research Council (NRC) outlines the...
Friday, Jun 22, 2012
The MSU Foundation Grants Committee recently awarded a Strategic Partnership Grant to a group of...
Thursday, Jun 21, 2012
The MSU Board of Trustees approved today the planning for a new 19,000 square foot high bay...
Thursday, Jun 21, 2012
The Detroit Free Press reported comments from U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today in...
Friday, May 18, 2012
The ion source and low energy beam transport system used at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the...
Friday, Apr 27, 2012
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Project Assessment...
Monday, Mar 19, 2012
The Independent CD-2/3A Readiness and Cost Assessment Review, charged by MSU President Lou...
Sunday, Mar 4, 2012
One of the β=0.53 SRF cavities built by U.S. industry was shipped from MSU to Thomas Jefferson...
Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012
Successful ECR ion source tests conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) produced...
Monday, Feb 13, 2012
Representatives from building trades organizations across Michigan met at FRIB on February...
Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012
For FRIB production, SRF cavities will be jacketed with titanium helium vessels. The fabrication...
Monday, Jan 30, 2012
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees has given its approval to the next step in the...
Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012
In the State of the Union Address last night, President Obama called for continued support...
Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012
Recycled steel shielding blocks (Duratek blocks) are being staged close to FRIB for just-in-time...
Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012
Multiple media reports speculated about funding for FRIB following a speech by Department of Energy...
Friday, Jan 13, 2012
The complete set of high temperature superconductor (HTS) coils have been assembled onto their...
Wednesday, Jan 4, 2012
Utility relocation work for FRIB is making good progress by moving the steam tunnels and other...
Tuesday, Dec 27, 2011
Located inside the superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cryomodules, cold beam position monitors (...
Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011
The Technology Demonstration Cryomodule (TDCM) has been assembled at FRIB, completing an important...
Monday, Dec 19, 2011
The Experimental Systems Advisory Committee (ESAC) met 14-16 December to evaluate progress and...
Monday, Dec 12, 2011
The FRIB Environmental, Safety and Health (ES&H) program was found ready to support a...
Friday, Dec 2, 2011
MSU is relocating utilities near the FRIB site to prepare for the start of civil construction in...
Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011
Membership of FRIB Users Organization (FRIBUO) jumped from 875 to more than 1,000 following votes...
Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011
U.S. Representative Tim Walberg from Michigan's 7th Congressional District toured FRIB and...
Wednesday, Nov 23, 2011
The Accelerator Systems Advisory Committee (ASAC) met November 15-17 to evaluate progress and...
Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011
The Superconducting Particle Accelerator Forum of the Americas (SPAFOA) held a meeting at FRIB on...
Wednesday, Oct 5, 2011
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Project Assessment conducted a...
Thursday, Sep 15, 2011
An article published at nature.com ("Isotope factory accelerates") covered the joint...
Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011
FRIB will be a new national user facility, enabling scientists to make discoveries. Potential users...
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011
Staff members from eleven of Michigan's federal congressional offices were updated on the FRIB...
Friday, Aug 12, 2011
The superconducting radio frequency (SRF) design (i.e. the cold mass, which is primarily cavity,...
Tuesday, Aug 9, 2011
A peer review conducted last week of the fragment separator, mechanical design, target, beam dump,...
Friday, Aug 5, 2011
An FRIB Environmental, Health and Safety Advisory Committee (ESHAC) meeting and an external audit...
Thursday, Jul 7, 2011
A peer review conducted July 5-6 found the FRIB fragment separator optics design and diagnostic...
Friday, Jun 24, 2011
Several editorial articles have been published in newspapers around the state during the past week...
Friday, Jun 17, 2011
A peer review found the FRIB conventional facilities preliminary design on track for Critical...
Tuesday, Jun 14, 2011
In its Strategic Plan, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) defines its goal to “maintain a...
Tuesday, Jun 7, 2011
On Thursday, June 2, an ion beam was accelerated through the beta=0.041 cryomodules for the first...
Thursday, Jun 2, 2011
More work space - in the form another prefabricated trailer - was added as the Conventional...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon hosted and attended a meeting of the President's Project...
Monday, May 2, 2011
We are pleased to announce the selection of Donna M. Donovan, JD, to be the FRIB Deputy Project...
Monday, Apr 18, 2011
Beam commissioning of the ReA3 reaccelerator continued last week through the first cryomodule. On...
Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Project Assessment and the Office of Nuclear Physics...
Sunday, Mar 13, 2011
Our thoughts and support go out to friends and collaborators in Japan following the recent...
Tuesday, Mar 8, 2011
The FRIB Science Advisory Committee (SAC) met on February 18-19 to consider the 16 FRIBUO...
Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011
The first accelerated beam through the ReA3 reaccelerator was identified today during...
Monday, Feb 14, 2011
The FRIB Project hosted two peer advisory committee reviews last week. The Experimental Systems...
Friday, Feb 4, 2011
Representatives from the FRIB Project met with experts from the University of Michigan, Fermi...
Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011
We welcome Thomas Borden to the FRIB Project as Experimental Systems Project Engineer. Tom...
Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011
The Detroit Free Press published a front page story about the progress and promise of FRIB. ...
Friday, Jan 14, 2011
Troy Hale, who splits his time between teaching in in Telecommunication, Information Studies &...
Tuesday, Jan 11, 2011
Brad Sherrill, FRIB Chief Scientist, was one of six Michigan State University researchers who...
Monday, Dec 20, 2010
Brookhaven National Laboratory reports good progress on their FRIB-funded research and development...
Thursday, Dec 16, 2010
The FRIB Quality Assurance (QA) group is performing training throughout the FRIB Project....
Wednesday, Dec 8, 2010
Barton Malow Company has been selected to serve as the Construction Manager-Agency (CM) for the...
Friday, Nov 19, 2010
Paul Chu will join the FRIB Project as a professor and lead the application software group in the...
Thursday, Nov 11, 2010
The Project Management Advisory Committee (PMAC) finished its review today at Michigan State...
Tuesday, Nov 2, 2010
We welcome Daniel Stout to the FRIB Project as FRIB Project Chief Engineer.Dan will provide...
Friday, Oct 22, 2010
Dr. Jie Wei joined the FRIB Project as Accelerator Systems Division Director in late August, and...
Friday, Oct 15, 2010
Matt Roush, author of the blog Great Lakes Innovation and Technology Report (GLITR), visited...
Thursday, Oct 14, 2010
Dr. William F. Brinkman, the Director of the DOE Office of Science, visited FRIB and MSU on October...
Friday, Oct 8, 2010
A workshop organized by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and MSU on “Isotope Harvesting...
Monday, Sep 27, 2010
Michigan lawmakers including Rep. Ed Clemente (D-Lincoln Park) and Sen. Gretchen Whitmer (D-East...
Friday, Sep 24, 2010
More than 70 members from the Capital Area Information Technology and Capital Area Manufacturing...
Thursday, Sep 23, 2010
A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) environmental study of Michigan State University’s (MSU)...
Wednesday, Sep 1, 2010
Dr. Patricia M. Dehmer, DOE Office of Science (DOE-SC) Deputy Director for Science Programs,...
Saturday, Aug 21, 2010
BOSTON, MA -- A symposium entitled "Radiochemistry at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams...
Tuesday, Jun 29, 2010
SmithGroup has been selected to serve as the architecture and engineering (AE) consultant for the...
Friday, Jun 11, 2010
EAST LANSING -- MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon charged an independent review panel to assess the...
Thursday, Apr 22, 2010
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Assistant Director Kei Koizumi visited the...
Wednesday, Mar 24, 2010
The DOE NEPA hearing on the draft Environmental Assessment for FRIB at MSU was held last night.Vice...
Friday, Mar 12, 2010
A symposium "Radiochemistry at FRIB" will be held during the Fall 2010 National Meeting...
Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
EAST LANSING, Mich. – During the conceptual design phase for the Facility for Rare Isotope...
Wednesday, Feb 3, 2010
The budget request that President Obama submitted to Congress includes $10 million for the...
Thursday, Nov 12, 2009
The Department of Energy (DOE) and Michigan State University hosted an educational open house and...
Monday, Nov 2, 2009
An educational open house and public scoping meeting are scheduled for Nov. 11, 2009.Michigan State...
Monday, Nov 2, 2009
Bradley Sherrill, FRIB Chief Scientist, was interviewed on Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know,...
Monday, Jun 8, 2009
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University today announced the signing of a...
Thursday, Dec 11, 2008
EAST LANSING, Mich. — The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science today named Michigan State...
Thursday, Dec 11, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that Michigan State University...
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Thursday, Jun 6, 2013The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) assessed FRIB’s progress on June 4-5. The...
Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013FRIB has successfully completed the annual ISO 14001 (Environmental) and OHSAS 18001 (Safety and...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013FRIB has successfully completed the annual ISO 9001 surveillance audit of the Quality Management...
Friday, May 10, 2013The high power beam dump is required to intercept all primary beam at powers of up to 325 kW. The...
Thursday, Apr 11, 2013The baseline charge stripper is a flowing windowless film of liquid lithium approximately 10 µm...
Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012Faculty members from Central Michigan University have joined into an academic partnership with...
Friday, Sep 28, 2012A team of MSU researchers has been awarded a grant to study how teams work together. The three-year...
Friday, Sep 7, 2012The Michigan State University Board of Trustees has given its approval to the next step in the...
Tuesday, Jun 26, 2012In its fourth decadal survey of nuclear physics, the National Research Council (NRC) outlines the...
Friday, Jun 22, 2012The MSU Foundation Grants Committee recently awarded a Strategic Partnership Grant to a group of...
Thursday, Jun 21, 2012The MSU Board of Trustees approved today the planning for a new 19,000 square foot high bay...
Thursday, Jun 21, 2012The Detroit Free Press reported comments from U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today in...
Monday, Jan 30, 2012The Michigan State University Board of Trustees has given its approval to the next step in the...
Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012In the State of the Union Address last night, President Obama called for continued support...
Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012Multiple media reports speculated about funding for FRIB following a speech by Department of Energy...
Monday, Dec 19, 2011The Experimental Systems Advisory Committee (ESAC) met 14-16 December to evaluate progress and...
Monday, Dec 12, 2011The FRIB Environmental, Safety and Health (ES&H) program was found ready to support a...
Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011Membership of FRIB Users Organization (FRIBUO) jumped from 875 to more than 1,000 following votes...
Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011The Superconducting Particle Accelerator Forum of the Americas (SPAFOA) held a meeting at FRIB on...
Thursday, Sep 15, 2011An article published at nature.com ("Isotope factory accelerates") covered the joint...
Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011FRIB will be a new national user facility, enabling scientists to make discoveries. Potential users...
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011Staff members from eleven of Michigan's federal congressional offices were updated on the FRIB...
Friday, Aug 12, 2011The superconducting radio frequency (SRF) design (i.e. the cold mass, which is primarily cavity,...
Tuesday, Aug 9, 2011A peer review conducted last week of the fragment separator, mechanical design, target, beam dump,...
Friday, Aug 5, 2011An FRIB Environmental, Health and Safety Advisory Committee (ESHAC) meeting and an external audit...
Thursday, Jul 7, 2011A peer review conducted July 5-6 found the FRIB fragment separator optics design and diagnostic...
Friday, Jun 24, 2011Several editorial articles have been published in newspapers around the state during the past week...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon hosted and attended a meeting of the President's Project...
Monday, May 2, 2011We are pleased to announce the selection of Donna M. Donovan, JD, to be the FRIB Deputy Project...
Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Project Assessment and the Office of Nuclear Physics...
Sunday, Mar 13, 2011Our thoughts and support go out to friends and collaborators in Japan following the recent...
Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011The first accelerated beam through the ReA3 reaccelerator was identified today during...
Monday, Feb 14, 2011The FRIB Project hosted two peer advisory committee reviews last week. The Experimental Systems...
Friday, Feb 4, 2011Representatives from the FRIB Project met with experts from the University of Michigan, Fermi...
Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011We welcome Thomas Borden to the FRIB Project as Experimental Systems Project Engineer. Tom...
Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011The Detroit Free Press published a front page story about the progress and promise of FRIB. ...
Friday, Jan 14, 2011Troy Hale, who splits his time between teaching in in Telecommunication, Information Studies &...
Tuesday, Jan 11, 2011Brad Sherrill, FRIB Chief Scientist, was one of six Michigan State University researchers who...
Monday, Dec 20, 2010Brookhaven National Laboratory reports good progress on their FRIB-funded research and development...
Thursday, Nov 11, 2010The Project Management Advisory Committee (PMAC) finished its review today at Michigan State...
Friday, Oct 15, 2010Matt Roush, author of the blog Great Lakes Innovation and Technology Report (GLITR), visited...
Thursday, Oct 14, 2010Dr. William F. Brinkman, the Director of the DOE Office of Science, visited FRIB and MSU on October...
Monday, Sep 27, 2010Michigan lawmakers including Rep. Ed Clemente (D-Lincoln Park) and Sen. Gretchen Whitmer (D-East...
Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010EAST LANSING, Mich. – During the conceptual design phase for the Facility for Rare Isotope...