BY ANTHONY RIZZO
Central Michigan University and Michigan State University have established an academic partnership. The schools will be teaming up to conduct research at a planned research facility, called the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams in East Lansing.
Three CMU faculty members have been chosen to conduct research with students at MSU.
Experts say FRIB will be the premier nuclear physics laboratory in the world. It's expected to be completed by 2019.
Research at the lab will promote better understanding of the diagnosis and cure of diseases, advance homeland security efforts through radiation and help uncover the origin of matter.
Dr. Alan Jackson is a professor of physics at CMU.
"We hired these people to be CMU faculty. We are not hiring people to essentially be MSU employees. They have labs here in the Dow Science Building at CMU. They are, each of them, working on types of experiments that will hopefully be ran someday at the FRIB facility."
Officials say the faculty members will supervise doctoral students at MSU, while still working with students at CMU.