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The MSU Cyclotron Lab’s Own Hidden Figure: Prof. Thelma Irene Arnette and “The Bomb”
Professor Thelma Irene Arnette (1920-2017) was the third person hired (the first two were Prof. Henry Blosser and Prof. Morton Gordon) to design the first cyclotron (the “K50”) at Michigan State University around 1960. She would go on to become an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1962 and earned tenure at MSU in 1967 in ...

Towards a More Sensitive Measurement of the Atomic Electric Dipole Moment of Radium-225 – APS March Meeting 2020
Although the APS March Meeting was cancelled this year, you can view Roy Ready’s presentation. The abstract is here: http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR20/Session/P01.2 The slides are here: https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=17142 The presentation is here on YouTube:

Six Undergrads Receive Support to Participate in CEU-DNP 2017
Six students were selected to participate in CEU-DNP this October in Pittsburgh and were offered support for lodging for their participation: Courtney Nelson (REU Student): Optical Thin Film Thickness Measurement for the Single Atom Microscope Daniel Coulter: Design of a Prototype Single Atom Microscope for Nuclear Astrophysics Evan Ryan (Honors College Seminar): Characterizing Optical Backgrounds ...

APS DNP Vancouver 2016
Four members of the Spinlab team made the trip to Vancouver for the annual fall meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Association held Oct. 13-16th. The team contributed talks and posters regarding their work at the MSU Spinlab and was composed of Jaideep Singh, Roy Ready, Jake Huneau, and Kristen ...