From MSU Today on Impact Radio: Federal funding is moving forward, hiring is under way and conceptual design and research and development are progressing at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Project one year after the U.S. Department of Energy announced the selection of MSU to design and establish FRIB.

Brad Sherrill is Chief Scientist for the FRIB project.

“This is a new window on the universe,” Sherrill says. “It’s a new research tool that no one has had before, and it will be the centerpiece of a research enterprise for the nation.”

Construction of FRIB is scheduled to begin in late 2013. The project is expected to bring $1 billion in economic development to the region and is expected to be completed in 2017.

“FRIB will be a place where scientists from all over the world will come to do forefront research that isn’t possible anywhere else in the world,” says Sherrill. “We’re going to learn exciting things here about how nature behaves and about how the universe has changed over time, and we’ll learn new ways to diagnose and treat diseases.

“Great scientific discoveries are going to take place on the MSU campus because of FRIB.”

Hosted by Russ White.

Hear the Conversation 11:41 – 6.7 mb mp3