Mchigan professor (Gordon Kane) beats Stephen Hawking in a bet!

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<p>By 2020, the American Nuclear Scientists will no longer have to travel all the way to Switzerland. Many will accept the appointment at NSCL / FRIB - the most advanced atom accelerated collider facility for rare isotope research in the nation. </p>

<p>MSU is planning to recruit 400 top nuclear scientists from around the globe with the capacity of another 2,000 international interface users for visiting scholars. Some top nuclear researchers from Stanford’s SLAC had joined the school last year, we certainly welcome Duke and Michigan’s top scientists to East Lansing as well. :p</p>

<p><a href=“http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2012/01/b15c3c85-eef7-435a-850b-6094f4693a95.pdf[/url]”>http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2012/01/b15c3c85-eef7-435a-850b-6094f4693a95.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Thanks to Higgs-Boson’s recent highly touted global publicity, MSU’s FRIB budget is set to be quadrupled from $1.5 billion spending to at least $5 billion by completion. The project was initially planned for $500-million. It is currently at $680-million due to inflation and add-on costs. The research funding is also set to increase from the initial $100 million DOE + $20 million NSF = $120 million to $250 million annual research funding in order to stay competitive to its European counterpart - LHC @ CERN. </p>

<p>#1 in Nuclear Physics </p>

<p>[Best</a> Nuclear Physics Programs | Top Physics Schools | US News Best Graduate Schools](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/nuclear-science-rankings]Best”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/nuclear-science-rankings)</p>

<p>Live FRIB Construction Site Camera</p>

<p>[Live</a> Site Camera - View from the West | frib.msu.edu](<a href=“http://www.frib.msu.edu/content/live-site-camera-view-west]Live”>FRIB | Facility for Rare Isotope Beams | Michigan State University)</p>

<p>*FRIB - The holy grail of the next generation Atom Smasher. Project won from the hands of Stanford, Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and MIT. </p>

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EAST LANSING, Mich. — The National Research Council says Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams project should remain a major priority.</p>

<p>A report issued June 27 by the NRC outlines the accomplishments of the nuclear physics field during the last decade and recommends a strategy for the future, including, as its first recommendation, “the timely completion of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and the initiation of its physics program.”</p>

<p>The report calls FRIB “a major new strategic investment in nuclear science. It will have unique capabilities and offers opportunities to answer fundamental questions about the inner workings of the atomic nucleus, the formation of the elements in our universe, and the evolution of the cosmos.”

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<p><a href=“http://news.msu.edu/story/national-science-panel-calls-msu-s-frib-project-a-top-priority/[/url]”>http://news.msu.edu/story/national-science-panel-calls-msu-s-frib-project-a-top-priority/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Go State!! :)</p>