• Title: Audio: Interview with NSCL Alum Don Sackett
• Source: Michigan State University National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
• Date: August 2008
• Genre: science, business, technology
• Year: 2008
• Length: 4:05 minutes (5.61 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)

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. (A few years back, researchers at the Smithsonian used an Innov-X detector to identify the metals in Benjamin Franklin's coat buttons.) In this interview, Sackett reflects on his time at MSU and how it prepared him for success in business.