Posted Apr 17, 2010, 5:36 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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I wish the region marketed itself better, because if it did, this kind of news would actually translate into more good things for the region.
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MSU tops MIT as best nuclear physics grad school
By MATTHEW MILLER
LANSING STATE JOURNAL
April 16, 2010
EAST LANSING - For a university like Michigan State, small shifts in academic rankings don't necessarily mean much. Until, of course, they do.
This year, MSU's graduate program in nuclear physics nabbed the No. 1 spot in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, pulling ahead of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after years in the No. 2 slot.
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But he added that one shouldn't overestimate the importance of the rankings, which are based solely on rankings by academic experts. Bauer was one of those experts this year, though "you don't rank yourself."
"It's a perception of how a program is ranked in the community," he said. "In a certain way, this is important, because if other faculty at other institutions say Michigan State is ranked No. 1, they will recommend to their best undergraduates, 'Go to the No. 1 school,' and that No. 1 school is not MIT anymore."
And, as perceptions go, MSU's success in securing the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a $550-million Department of Energy-funded research facility slated to go online in 2017, certainly didn't hurt, he said.
"The biggest thing in nuclear physics to happen in the last five to 10 years was clearly the decision to site FRIB on MSU's campus," Bauer said. "For sure, that had an influence on these rankings."
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The region has all of these great pieces, but no one(s) has/have been able to piece them together to make a case for Mid-Michigan in any meaningful way.
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