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2:53 minutes (3.97 MB)

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.

5:36 minutes (7.7 MB)

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

4:05 minutes (5.61 MB)

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.