News
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- September 14, 2018
- Michigan State University graduate student awarded Department of Energy fellowship
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Graduate Student Steven Fromm joins a group of 25 first-year fellows in 2017, bringing the total number of current DOE CSGF recipients to 84 students in 21 states.
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- August 23, 2018
- DUNE collaboration completes Far Detector Interim Design Report
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The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) collaboration, including P-A Asst. Prof. Kendall Mahn, has released its Interim Design Report for the construction of gigantic modules for its “far detector” in South Dakota.
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- August 13, 2018
- Three P-A faculty members named to third cohort of STEM fellows
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Three P-A faculty members—Huey-Wen Lin, Jaideep Taggart Singh, and Pengpeng Zhang—are among 12 selected for MSU's STEM Teaching and Learning Fellowship's fall 2018 cohort.
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- July 31, 2018
- Birge group solves a storied problem
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A research team led by Professor Norman Birge has found a solution to a long-standing problem with combinations of superconductors and ferromagnets.
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- July 26, 2018
- FRIB accelerates first beams in 3 of 46 superconducting cryomodules
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On July 11th & 12th, FRIB achieved a major project milestone by successfully accelerating its first beams in 3 of 46 superconducting cryomodules.
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- July 12, 2018
- IceCube neutrinos point toward long-sought cosmic ray accelerator
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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has found evidence that a blazar four billion light years away in Orion is a source of extremely high-energy cosmic rays.
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- July 11, 2018
- Heaviest known calcium atom discovered by MSU-led team
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Researchers from MSU's NSCL/FRIB and the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan have found eight new heavy isotopes of seven elements, including calcium-60.
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- June 29, 2018
- Jaideep Taggart Singh receives DoE Early Career award
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Assistant Professor Jaideep Taggart Singh of the P-A Dept. and FRIB received one of 84 Early Career Research Program Awards for 2018 from the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Office of Science.
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- June 21, 2018
- Finding antineutrino oscillation
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NOvA collaboration observes antineutrino interactions at rates indicating oscillation behavior.
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- June 21, 2018
- Phillip Duxbury recommended as dean of the College of Natural Science
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Subject to MSU Board of Trustees approval, P-A Professor Phillip Duxbury will become MSU College of Natural Sciences dean on August 16th.
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- June 15, 2018
- MSU hosts U.S. Particle Acceleration School
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MSU is the host of the summer 2018 session of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School.
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- June 7, 2018
- Is there an end to the periodic table?
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As the 150th anniversary of the formulation of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements looms, MSU professor Witold Nazarewicz probes the table's limits in a recent Nature Physics Perspective.
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- June 7, 2018
- JINA-CEE collaboration detects an unusually fast-cooling neutron star
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“Direct Urca process” neutron star cooling mechanism is first observed by a JINA-CEE research team including P-A Professor Ed Brown.
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- May 25, 2018
- P-A grad student Jacob Calcutt earns award
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Jacob Calcutt has received one of the latest round of 60 nationwide DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Awards.
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- May 17, 2018
- FRIB hosts summer school on neutron star merger
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The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is hosting a summer school focused on scientific discoveries resulting from the recent neutron star merger observation.
- May 4, 2018
- Article on stellar nucleosynthesis by P-A faculty members appears in "The Conversation"
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The article “Elements from the stars: The unexpected discovery that upended astrophysics 66 years ago,” by Artemis Spyrou and Hendrick Schatz, was published in The Conversation web journal on 02 May 2018.
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- March 27, 2018
- Laura Chomiuk receives NSF Early CAREER Award
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Asst. Prof. Laura Chomiuk receives a 2018 NSF Early CAREER Award, one of 6 awarded to MSU NatSci faculty women this year.
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- March 21, 2018
- MSU nuclear physics graduate program still ranked #1
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MSU nuclear physics graduate program retains number 1 position in the 2018 U.S. News & World Report national rankings.
- March 15, 2018
- Chris Adami "Faculty Voice" essay remembers Stephen Hawking
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In a March 15th MSU Today “Faculty Voice” essay, Chris Adami remembers Stephen Hawking, who passed away on March 14th.
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- March 7, 2018
- Chasing Ghost Particles from MSU to Antarctica
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P-A graduate student Devyn Rysewyk relates her experiences installing equipment at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole.