Up from nothing : the Michigan State University Cyclotron Laboratory / / Sam M. Austin ; foreword by Lou Anna K. Simon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820946003321
• Autore: Austin Sam M.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-9967252-2-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 539.733
• Soggetti: Cyclotrons - Michigan - East Lansing; Cyclotrons
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword -- About the author -- Glossary -- Chapter 1. FRIB : the improbable adventure -- Chapter 2. The opportunity and the will -- Chapter 3. The MSU physics strategy, 1955-62 -- Chapter 4. Building the cyclotron laboratory, 1963-65 -- Chapter 5. Cyclotron laboratory research -- Chapter 6. The K50 era, 1965-79 -- Chapter 7. The K50 : its golden years, 1970-79-- Chapter 8. Beginning of the superconducting era -- Chapter 9. The midwestern collaboration -- Chapter 10. The NSAC process and phase II -- Chapter 11. Making it all work -- Chapter 12. The K500 experimental program -- Chapter 13. The phase II project -- Chapter 14. The next step : coupled cyclotrons again -- Chapter 15. The next big thing -- Chapter 16. The RIA/FRIB competition : Argonne and NSCL/MSU -- Chapter 17. Looking back : building upon increasing strength -- Chapter 18. Looking forward : What's in it for us--the nation and society? --Appendices -- Notes -- Notes on sources -- Thanks and appreciation.
• Sommario/riassunto: Up from Nothing is the story of the Michigan State University Cyclotron Laboratory and its growth from the appointment of a single individual in 1958 to when the university earned the right to build the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) in 2008. The cyclotron laboratory at MSU has been known for years as the best university nuclear physics laboratory in the United States, and perhaps in the world. But very few, even in its hometown of East Lansing, know how it achieved that status or why it ; prospered when laboratories at many other famous universities faded. In this book Austin, a nuclear physicist who has been at the laboratory since the beginning of its ascent, gives us a remarkable story. It begins with an exceptional individual, Henry Blosser, who founded the laboratory, built a cyclotron accelerator of uniquely high precision, and recruited a team of nuclear physicists that used it to establish the laboratory's reputation. Its credibility led to a sequence of accelerators, each operating in a different sub?eld while continuing a tradition of forefront science, and to a laboratory culture that fostered the courage and foresight to compete for the FRIB in the face of daunting odds.

Dominant Language Constellations Approach in Education and Language Acquisition / / edited by Larissa Aronin, Eva Vetter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910490024703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021
• ISBN: 9783030707699; 3030707695
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2021.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 pages)
• Collana: Educational Linguistics, , 2215-1656 ; ; 51
• Disciplina: 370.1175
• Soggetti: Language and languages - Study and teaching; Multilingualism; Linguistics; Globalization; Language Education; Language Teaching and Learning
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Part I: Dominant Language Constellations in Language Education Policy and Practice -- Chapter 1 Dominant Language Constellations in Education: Big Data, Patterns and Contexts -- Chapter 2 Language Education Policy through a DLC Lens: The Case of Urban ; Multilingualism -- Chapter 3 Embracing Multilingualism in Teacher Education in Finland? DLC as a Tool for Analysing the State of Multilingualism in Policy and Practice -- Chapter 4 Family Language Policy and Dominant Language Constellations: A Canadian Perspective -- Chapter 5 Promoting Plurilingual Competences in Primary Schools in Barcelona: A Dominant Language Constellation Approach to Teaching and Learning Languages -- Part II: Dominant Language Constellations and Identity -- Chapter 6 The Dominant Language Constellations of Immigrant Teacher Trainees in Israel: Russian, Hebrew and English -- Chapter 7 Educational and Career Opportunities for Refugee-Background Adults in Norway: A DLC Perspective -- Chapter 8 Exploring Identitiesand Life Stories of Multilingual Transnational Couples through the Lens of Multilinguality and Dominant Language Constellations -- Part III: Dominant Language Constellations through Visualization.-Chapter 9 Understanding Dominant Language Constellations through Analysis of Visual Linguistic Autobiographies by Foreign Language Student-Teachers in Germany -- Chapter 10 Languages as Ways of Being: The Linguistic Biography of a Nordic Nomad.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is an important instalment in the rapidly expanding literature on multilingualism in education and language teaching. Within multilingual studies the volume is highly innovative in its application of the concept, theory and perspectives of the Dominant Language Constellations (DLC). The volume reports original research on language education policy and practice which address contemporary DLC-informed multilingualism within family settings and institutional domains such as teacher education, primary and secondary schooling, and higher education. Deploying the DLC concept as an analytical and conceptual category the chapters explore both personal and institutional life of multilingualism, enriched through visualizations. Specific chapters examine issues connected to career opportunities of adults of refugee background in Norway, multilingual transnational couples, and language teacher preparation in settings as diverse as Austria, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Israel, and the Basque Country and Catalonia in Spain. This volume is of direct relevance to coursework students and researchers pursuing programs in education, linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and multilingualism, but will also attract interest in disciplines such as social work and psychology. Additionally the volume will appeal to members of the general public wishing to acquaint themselves with current research and thinking on critical issues in multilingual studies, such as learning experiences within and beyond classrooms, and aspects of public policy and institutional decision-making processes.