2024 FRIB News
23 April 2024
FRIB is hosting William Phillips, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, for a special talk titled “The Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System.” The talk, part of FRIB’s Advanced Studies Gateway...
23 April 2024
University of Surrey article details how sensors will shine new light on why stars explode The University of Surrey in England published an article ( “£3m Surrey sensors will shine...
17 April 2024
World-class particle-accelerator facilities and recent advances in neutron-star observation give physicists a new toolkit for describing nuclear interactions at a wide range of densities. For most stars, neutron stars and...
05 April 2024
The award recipients for the 2024 Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science are: Erich Leistenschneider from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , and Yassid Ayyad...
05 April 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled “ New calculations solve an alpha particle physics puzzle .” The highlight explains a new experimental measure...
04 April 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled “ The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams observes five never-before-seen isotopes .” The highlight explains how the...
01 April 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled “ Understanding charged-particle bound states in periodic boxes .” The highlight explains how researchers solved a long-standing...
29 March 2024
Aaron Philip, a professorial assistant at FRIB, has earned a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship , becoming Michigan State University’s fifty-fifth Goldwater Scholar. The Goldwater Foundation seeks sophomores and juniors committed...
28 March 2024
Daniel Lay, a graduate assistant at FRIB, was featured recently in the 2024 Academic Programs Annual , published by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Defense Programs, Technology and Partnerships...
20 March 2024
George Perkovich, the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Chair and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , gave a lecture on 20 March at the...
18 March 2024
A technical evaluation using data from a recent scientific-user experiment demonstrated how the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) enables Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) scientists...
18 March 2024
Scientists from Massey University in New Zealand, the University of Mainz in Germany, Sorbonne University in France, and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) discuss the limit of the...
20 February 2024
The FRIB Project team received a U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Secretary of Energy Achievement Award—DOE’s highest form of employee recognition for achievements—at the annual Secretary’s Honor Awards ceremony held...
15 February 2024
In creating five new isotopes , an international research team working at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, at Michigan State University has brought the stars closer to...
26 January 2024
Empowered by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) is spearheading a multi-institutional project to construct a next-generation fast-neutron...
23 January 2024
FRIB, Michigan State University (MSU) , and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) honored the winners of the “Distinguished Trailblazers in the Sciences” competition at a virtual ceremony...
03 January 2024
Video looks at FRIB’s 2023 achievements This year-in-review video highlights FRIB’s greatest achievements in 2023.