The official Twitter account of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (#FRIB), a @doescience user facility operated by @michiganstateu.
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@FRIBLab has completed the K500 Chip Testing Facility to address the national microelectronics testing shortage. It boosts FRIB’s potential for innovation and creates hands-on learning opportunities for the next generation of engineers.
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Graduate students at FRIB aren’t just learning—they’re leading and contributing to published peer-reviewed science. One recent example: A research team, led by two FRIB graduate students, developed a new machine-learning method for nuclear modeling.
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FRIB provides graduate students with opportunities for funded research with real-world impact. Graduate assistant Emily Gordon is contributing to a DOE NNSA–supported project exploring improved actinide separation methods.
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12 Dec 2025
Meet Andrew Sanchez. After earning his physics PhD at MSU, he now works at Pajarito Scientific Corporation (PSC) in New Mexico. His path began with the first Nuclear Science Summer School. He’s now stepping into a Radiation Safety Officer role at PSC.
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11 Dec 2025
FRIB and @michiganstateu invite 5–12 graders to enter this year’s Distinguished Trailblazers in the Sciences competition, highlighting scientists and engineers who have made a meaningful impact.
Submission deadline is 15 December.
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Ready to launch your science career?
FRIB graduate students receive personalized instruction from world-class faculty mentors and researchers. Students conduct research and develop skills that will prepare them for a successful career.
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31 Oct 2025
Join us this evening at 5:30 p.m. for a concert featuring Mezzo-soprano singer Huizhong Jiang, who will perform Frauenliebe und Leben by Robert Schumann, along with selection of other arrangements.
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24 Oct 2025
How do scientists study exotic nuclei created inside of supernovas? FRIB scientist Artemis Spyrou describes the fundamental “recipe” for studying rare isotopes in the lab in this video produced by #ChETEC-INFRA with support from @NSF.
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23 Oct 2025
Join us this evening at 5:30 p.m. for a concert featuring the string ensemble International Chamber Soloists (ICS), along with Dmitri Berlinsky.
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13 Oct 2025
Two MSU physicists have been selected for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation 2025 cohort of Experimental Physics Investigators: Jaideep Taggart Singh and Johannes Pollanen.
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8 Oct 2025
We’re excited to announce the 2025 cohort of the Experimental Physics Investigators – a distinguished group of 22 mid-career researchers pushing the boundaries of experimental physics!
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12 Sep 2025
Please join us tonight, Friday 12 September at 5:30 p.m. for a piano concert featuring Young Hyun Cho, who will play Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas: Nos. 16-18, Op. 31. #AdvancedStudiesGateway
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23 Aug 2025
This timelapse shows the construction and testing of the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA) at @BerkeleyLab. The instrument will be shipped to FRIB this summer. @LBNLnuclearsci
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21 Aug 2025
FRIB graduate assistants Richard Gumbel and Andy Smith have been awarded 2025–2026 Chateaubriand Fellowships. Funded by @CNRS and @FranceScience, @ChateaubriandUS supports U.S. PhD students who seek to conduct part of their research in France.
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Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) retweeted
Congratulations to LLNL's Cole Pruitt for being awarded the 2025 @FRIBLab Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers in theoretical nuclear physics. Pruitt was selected for his work developing uncertainty-quantified optical model potentials. livermorelab.info/3Jfju36
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13 Aug 2025
With support from @ENERGY and @NSF, two @FRIBLab grad students explore a #MachineLearning method called Parametric Matrix Models for nuclear research. Their results, which outperform typical AI neural networks, were published in @NatureComms.
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Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) retweeted
8 Aug 2025
🎉 Big news in nuclear science! Major construction of GRETA – the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array – is complete! This precision detector will help scientists unlock the secrets of atomic nuclei. @LBNLnuclearsci
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FRIB Scientific Director Alexandra Gade was awarded the title of University Distinguished Professor by @michiganstateu. The title recognizes MSU faculty members for extraordinary efforts in teaching, public service, and scholarly achievements.
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22 Jul 2025
FRIB graduate assistant Brandon Lem has received the 2025-2026 @ENERGY Nuclear National Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship, supported by @NNSANews and @krellinst.
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Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) retweeted
10 Jul 2025
“People like to do DNA tests to see where their ancestors came from,” said @ArtemisSpyrou, a nuclear astrophysicist at @FRIBLab at @michiganstateu. “We’re doing the same with our planet and solar system.”
9 Jul 2025
Scientists have a solid understanding of how stars forge the elements on the periodic table up to iron. For every element past that, a different origin story is needed.
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Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) retweeted
4 Jul 2025
Gold, silver, and platinum — along with other heavy elements — come from stars. How? “People like to do DNA tests to see where their ancestors came from. We’re doing the same with our planet and solar system.” —Artemis Spyrou, nuclear astrophysicist
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