2002 Press Releases
- 12/16/02: UCB Satellite to Study Local Bubble in Space
- 11/20/02: Lick Observatory Honored by National Weather Service
- 11/7/02: UCB Researcher Find Evidence that Magnetic Processes in Space Accelerate Electrons to near Light Speed
- 10/10/02: Discover Magazine Names Sandra Faber Among Top 50 Women in Science
- 9/18/02: UCSC Receives $9.1 Million Grant for New Adaptive Optics Laboratory
- 6/13/02: UCB: First Planet in Jupiter-like Orbit Discovered
- 6/17/02: Adaptive Optics: New Era in Ground-based Astronomy
- 6/3/02: Speakers Announced for CfAO Dedication June 21
- 5/20/02: New Evidence for Dark Dwarf Galaxies Supports Dark Matter Theory
- 5/8/02 : Douglas Lin and Claire Max Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- 4/17/02: CfAO Dedication Rescheduled
- 4/15/02: Space-based Missile Defense Systems Could Jeopardize Astronomical Research
- 4/11/02: Evidence for Young Planets Found
- 4/2/02: Albert Whitford, former Lick Observatory Director, Dies at 96
- 4/1/02: NSF Director to Visit UCSC for CfAO Dedication
- 3/6/02: UCB: Massive Stars Form by Accretion, Not Merger
- 2/26/02: UCSC Prof. Raja Guhathakurta Awarded Herzberg Memorial Prize
- 2/5/02: UCB/NASA HESSI Spacecraft Reaches Orbit
- 1/31/02: New UCSC Supercomputer to Assist Astrophysics Researchers
- 1/7/02: UCSC: Habitable Planets Unlikely in Planetary System Most Like Our Own
- 1/4/02: Keck Adaptive Optics: World's Largest Telescope Creates Artificial Star