Graduate Student Research

Graduate students at NSCL have outstanding opportunities to do research at a national laboratory located on the campus of a major research university. The strong interaction between the experimental and theoretical scientists and the frequent visitors and users of the facility create an open and academically stimulating atmosphere at NSCL.

The NSCL is widely recognized for its cutting-edge research in nuclear science and accelerator physics and engineering, as evidenced by a large number of publications in high-quality refereed journals and invited talks at national and international conferences.

Experimental and theoretical insight gained at NSCL will be highly relevant for research at a next-generation U.S. rare isotope facility. A report issued in December 2006 by the National Research Council of the National Academies declared that "the science addressed by a rare-isotope facility, most likely based on a heavy-ion driver using a linear accelerator, should be a high priority for the United States."