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Audio: Voices of NSCL alums

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.

Video: Update from MoNA collaboration

"Here our interest is finding the kind of fluctuations and trends that occur in the cosmic ray distribution, both from Michigan State and Santa Barbara, simultaneously," says Warren Rogers, Interim Academic Dean and also Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics & Engineering at Westmont College in California, in a video released June 12 describing the Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) collaboration.

NSCL professor addresses the future of rare isotope research

"During the past decade, chemists and physicists have begun a fabrication process at the scale of atomic nuclei," writes Brad Sherrill, NSCL Associate Director for Research, in the May 9 issue of Science. The National Science Foundation describes the paper in a press release and accompanying video.

NSCL 2008 User Workshop

More than 120 users attended the NSCL User Workshop, held June 2, 2008 at MSU. The meeting featured presentations and discussions on proposed new instrumentation, including the implementation of the gamma detector array GRETINA at NSCL and also the new reaccelerator that will allow for world-unique experiments with stopped and reaccelerated beams by 2010.

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