2008 UCO Press Releases
Featuring Lick & Keck Observatories and University of California research
- 11/20/08: UCSC: Astronomy Professor Douglas Lin receives Outstanding Faculty Award
- 11/15/08: UCSC Earns Top Ranking for Scientific Impact of Astronomy Research [Read paper]
- 11/13/08: UCB: First Optical Image of Extrasolar Planet
- 11/13/08: Keck: AO Helps Image Extrasolar Planetary System
- 11/10/08: UCSC: Professor and CfAO Director Claire Max Awarded Madison Medal from Princeton
- 10/15/08: UCSC: Astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz Awarded Packard Fellowship
- 10/2/08: UCB: Sharper Images from Next-Generation Adaptive Optics
- 9/23/08: UCLA: Professor Andrea Ghez Awarded MacArthur Fellowship
- 9/10/08: UCB: New Type of Stellar Explosion Identified
- 9/10/08: UCB: Recent Gamma Ray Burst Most Powerful Event Ever Seen
- 8/27/08: UCI: Minimum Galaxy Size Discovery Helps Reseachers Understand Dark Matter
- 8/6/08: UCSC: GLAST May Detect Dark Matter Clumps Evidenced in Simulation
- 7/7/08: UCB: New Star Survey Indicates Jupiter-sized Exoplanets Rare
- 6/10/08: UCB: Astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel Wins Million-dollar Shaw Prize
- 6/6/08: UCSC: Astronomy & Astrophysics Professor George Blumenthal Inaugurated 10th Chancellor
- 6/5/08: UC Davis & LLNL: Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Discovered
- 5/21/08: UCB: Birth of Supernova Leads to All-Out Study
- 5/15/08: Thirty Meter Telescope Focuses on Two Candidate Sites
- 4/29/08: UCSC: Professor Claire Max Elected to National Academy of Sciences
- 4/1/08: UCSB: New Technique Revolutionizes Understanding of Extrasolar Planets
- 4/1/08: UCLA Astronomers' Research at Keck featured in Smithsonian
- 3/7/08: UCSC: Alpha Centauri Likely Harbors Earthlike Planets
- 2/27/08: UCB: Small "Helper" Stars Needed for Massive Star Formation
- 1/30/08: UCSC: Astrophysicist Stan Woosley to Give Faculty Research Lecture Feb. 12
- 1/29/08: Nova Phenomenon Explained with Nulling Mode at Keck
- 1/28/08: UCSC: Unusual Supernovae May Reveal Black Holes in Globular Clusters
- 1/2/08: UCB: SETI@Home Upgrades Telescope, More Volunteers Sought
