UCO in the News
Recent press releases feature Lick and Keck Observatories and astronomical research at University of California.
2006 Press Releases
- 12/20/06: UCB: Two Cosmic Bursts Challenge Formation Theory
- 12/18/06: NSF Awards $2 Million Grant to Upgrade Keck Interferometer
- 11/16/06: UCB's Alex Filippenko Named National Professor of the Year
- 11/20/06: UCSC Supercomputer Study Reveals Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo in Unprecedented Detail
- 10/30/06: UCSC: Prof. Joe Miller Awarded the Berkeley Medal and UC Citation of Excellence
- 10/27/06: UC Appoints Michael Bolte Director of UCO/Lick Observatory
- 10/9/06: UCSC: Constance Rockosi Awarded Packard Fellowship for Young Faculty
- 10/3/06: LBNL's Prof. George F. Smoot Awarded 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 9/20/06: LBNL: Startling Evidence of New Kind of Type 1a Supernova
- 9/13/06: UCSC Astronomers Trace Ebolution of First Galaxies in the Universe
- 9/11/06: Prof. Stan Woosley leads Consortium to Study Supernovae with Supercomputer Simulations
- 7/31/06: UCSC: Simple Survey Yields Cosmic Conundrum
- 7/29/06: UCB Astronomers Capture Jupiter's Red Spot and Red Spot Jr. at Keck
- 7/13/06: UCSC Professors Discuss Life on Earth at Public Event
- 6/21/06: LBNL's Saul Perlmutter Awarded Shaw Prize in Astronomy
- 5/22/06: UCSD: Astrophysicists Discover ‘Compact Jets’ From Neutron Star
- 5/15/06: CfAO Director Claire Max Receives Chabot Science Award
- 5/10/06: UCSC: Supernova or Gamma-Ray Burst? Examining How Their Causal Environments Differ
- 4/25/06: UCSC Professor Stan Woosley Elected to National Academy of Sciences
- 4/6/06: UCB: Blue Ring Discovered around Uranus
- 4/5/06: UCB: Astronomers Say Space Agency's 2020 Plan Shortsighted
- 3/17/06: Original Seismographic Record of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake at Lick Observatory
- 2/21/06: UCSC Cosmologist to Deliver Halliday Public Lecture "View from the Center of the Universe"
- 2/1/06: Taft E. Armandroff Appointed Director of Keck Observatory
- 2/1/06: UCB: Binary Asteroid in Jupiter's Orbit may be Ancient Comet
- 1/19/06: UCB: New Dusty Planetary Disks may be Astrophysical Mirrors of Kuiper Belt
- 1/16/06: UCSC: Role of Hit-and-Run Collisions in Planet Formation
- 1/12/06: UCB: Astronomers Find Magnetic Slinky in Orion
- 1/10/06: UCB: Stardust@home Allows Public to Look for Dust from Distant Stars
- 1/9/06: UCSC: Large Survey Indicates Star Formation Driven by Raw Materials Supply
- 1/9/06: UCB: Milky Way Warped and Vibrating
