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Michigan State University Research Foundation and MSU Announce Recipients of 2024 Strategic Partnership Grants

Michigan State University Research Foundation

The Michigan State University Research Foundation and Michigan State University will fund programs for prostate cancer therapy, polycrystalline diamond membranes for space-based communications, and advanced AI for early disease diagnostics. The Michigan State University Research Foundation (MSU Research Foundation) and Michigan State University (MSU) have announced the recipients of the 2024 Strategic Partnership Grants (SPG) …

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French ambassador visits Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University

MSU Today

Laurent Bili, the ambassador of France to the United States, visited the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, at Michigan State University on 22 July. The French research organization National Centre for Scientific Research, or CNRS, and MSU established the International Research Laboratory on Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, or IRL NPA, at FRIB in July 2023. Leveraging FRIB’s world-unique research capabilities, …

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MSU to expand chip-testing facility at FRIB to meet critical national need

MSU Today

Today, the Michigan State University Board of Trustees authorized construction of a high-bay addition to the west end of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. The addition will triple the testing capacity of the current chip-testing facility by providing two additional user vaults. The K500 Chip Testing Facility at FRIB will help meet the current national shortfall of testing capacity for advanced microelectronics, including those used for commercial spaceflight, wireless technology, …

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International research team uses wavefunction matching to solve quantum many-body problems

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New approach makes calculations with realistic interactions possible FRIB researchers are part of an international research team solving challenging computational problems in quantum physics using a new method called wavefunction matching. The new approach has applications to fields such as nuclear physics, where it is enabling theoretical calculations of atomic nuclei that were previously not …

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FRIB To Construct A Next-Generation Neutron Detector

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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 detector unlike any other in the world. Researchers and students at eight U.S. colleges and universities—Virginia State University, Augustana College, James Madison University, Davidson College, …

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FRIB creates 5 new isotopes

MSU Today

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 Earth. The isotopes — known as thulium-182, thulium-183, ytterbium-186, ytterbium-187 and lutetium-190 — were reported Feb. 15 in the journal Physical Review Letters. These represent the …

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A Spartan changing the way we fight cancer

College of Engineering

The assistant professor Carolina de Aguiar Ferreira has the resources at Michigan State University to precisely target cancer cells with diagnostics and therapies using radioisotopes produced by what is designed to be the world’s most powerful heavy-ion accelerator. She works in the highly collaborative Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, or IQ, and the …

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FRIB Faculty Members Receive Awards From MSU’s College of Natural Science

Awards recognize academic advisory work, research leadership, and faculty excellence. Three FRIB faculty members received awards from the Michigan State University (MSU) College of Natural Science (NatSci) at the NatSci Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony, held 17 November at MSU’s STEM Teaching and Learning Facility. Faculty, staff, students, family, and friends attended the event, which …

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FRIB Receives DOE-SC Grant Connecting Nuclear Theory and Quantum Computing

A team of FRIB scientists has received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) to address challenges in nuclear physics via the development of more efficient and powerful quantum computing algorithms. The work of Dean Lee, professor of physics at FRIB and in Michigan State University’s Department of Physics and …

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Accelerating nuclear science with machine learning

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, at Michigan State University is home to a world-unique particle accelerator designed to push the boundaries of our understanding of nature. Now, FRIB is accelerating that work with a form of artificial intelligence known as machine learning with support from the Office of Nuclear Physics, or NP, and …

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