The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is a user facility for the Office of Nuclear Physics in the U.S. Department of Ene ... rgy Office of Science (DOE-SC). FRIB is funded by DOE-SC, Michigan State University, and the State of Michigan. FRIB will enable scientists to make discoveries about the properties of rare isotopes, nuclear astrophysics, fundamental interactions, and applications for society, including in medicine, homeland security, and industry. MSU establishes and operates FRIB. By providing intense beams of rare isotopes (that is, short-lived nuclei not normally found on Earth), FRIB will enable scientific research with fast, stopped, and reaccelerated rare isotope beams, supporting a community of scientists from around the world. Livability.com named Lansing as the most affordable city in its “2018 Best Affordable Places to Live” list. East Lansing is one of the “Top 100 Best Places to Live” in the United States according to the 2019 list by Livability.com. East Lansing is one of the “Best Cities for Entrepreneurs” according to the 2017 ranking by Livability.com and Entrepreneur magazine. Okemos is No. 5 in the Niche.com 2018 Best Places to Live in America ranking. WalletHub ranked the Lansing-East Lansing region as the seventeenth most educated metropolitan area in the United States in its 2017 Most & Least Educated Cities in America list. read more