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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 covered some of the basic principles and big questions in nuclear science.

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NSCL's June 7 symposium on careers attracted more than 100 attendees, including several dozen alums from around the country. NSCL asked a few of these alums to reflect on their education at MSU and the subsequent trajectory of their careers. Here are just a few of the excerpts from those conversations.

MSU's NSCL is a world-leader in rare isotope research and nuclear science

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"The main focus of the paper is on using the (³He, t) reaction to study the spin-isospin response of nuclei," says Remco Zegers, NSCL assistant professor, of his research appearing in the Nov. 16 issue of Physical Review Letters. "With this reaction we can get about 20 KeV to 30 KeV resolution; that's very detailed information." Zegers describes his research, done in collaboration with scientists in Japan, Germany, France and the Netherlands, in this 12-minute audio interview.

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NSCL alum Don Sackett (Ph.D. 1992), profiled in the August/September 2008 issue of Innovation, is founder and CEO of Innov-X Systems. The Massachusetts-based company builds a variety of elemental detectors with applications ranging from national security to American history.

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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 prominence and a distinguished reputation within a specific discipline. Jacak is a nuclear physicist who uses heavy ion collisions for fundamental studies of hot, dense nuclear matter. She is a leading member of the collaboration that built and operates the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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Noah Ullmann, a Michigan State University master's student in digital media, was curious about the internal workings of NSCL. So he spent some time with fourth-year doctoral student Micha Kilburn for a crash course in nuclear science, rare isotope research, and accelerator technology. Then he tried to make sense of what he learned in this brief audio production.

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Supplement to Gelbke's column in the November 2007 MSU Alumni e-newsletter.