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Brad Sherrill lectures at Lansing Cafe Scientifique

On March 18, University Distinguished Professor Brad Sherrill was the featured guest at the local meeting of Cafe Scientifique, a loosely organized international effort to promote public engagement in science outside of the academic context. Sherrill's 45-minute talk, available here, covered some of the basic principles and big questions in nuclear science. Sherrill, NSCL's associate director for research, has long been a leader in shaping the future direction of the field.

Interview with NSCL Alumna, Barbara Jacak

In March 2008, NSCL alumna Barbara Jacak was named a SUNY Stonybrook Distinguished Professor, an honor conferred to SUNY faculty achieving distinct national or international recognition. In an interview with NSCL's communication team, Jacak reflects on the signficance of the award and her excitement about current research on hot, dense nuclear matter. Jacak is among many prominent alumni of NSCL, which helps to train 10 percent of all U.S. nuclear science doctoral students and has the second ranked graduate program in nuclear science, behind only M.I.T.

Mass measurement technique uncovers new iron isomer

For years, gamma ray spectroscopy has been one of the only reliable means of studying isomers. But now scientists have a new tool at their disposal. In a paper that will be published in Physical Review Letters, researchers at Michigan State University's National Superconducting Laboratory (NSCL) report the first ever discovery of a nuclear isomer by Penning trap mass spectrometry. (NSCL professor Georg Bollen discusses the discovery in a six-minute audio interview.)

MSU Physicist Named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

Michigan State University physicist Alexandra Gade, an assistant professor at MSU's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, has been named a 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. Gade is among 118 awardees from the United States and Canada being recognized for early-career research excellence in fields ranging from physics to economics to neuroscience.

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