http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sat, 25 May 2013 00:34:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/01/09/scp0401-farthest-yet/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/01/09/scp0401-farthest-yet/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:27:31 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33801 The Supernova Cosmology Project, based at Berkeley Lab and headed by UC Berkeley physicist and Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, has discovered the most distant supernova yet that can be used in cosmological studies. Announced at the American Astronomical Society meeting, it will help answer questions about dark energy and the fate of the universe.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/01/09/scp0401-farthest-yet/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/21/robert-lin-uc-berkeley-pioneer-in-experimental-space-physics-dies-at-70/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/21/robert-lin-uc-berkeley-pioneer-in-experimental-space-physics-dies-at-70/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:25:27 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33512 Physicist Robert Peichung Lin, a former director of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, who designed and built dozens of instruments to study solar flares, the magnetic fields on the surface of the moon and Mars and the plasma environment of Earth, died suddenly of a stroke on Saturday, Nov. 17.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/21/robert-lin-uc-berkeley-pioneer-in-experimental-space-physics-dies-at-70/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/02/nobel-laureate-and-alum-adam-reiss-to-discuss-dark-energy/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/02/nobel-laureate-and-alum-adam-reiss-to-discuss-dark-energy/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:41:03 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32681 Nobel Laureate and alumnus Adam G. Riess will give a free public talk at UC Berkeley about groundbreaking research on the expansion of the universe and its implications for dark energy. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/02/nobel-laureate-and-alum-adam-reiss-to-discuss-dark-energy/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/24/theoretical-astrophysicist-receives-500000-no-strings-attached/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/24/theoretical-astrophysicist-receives-500000-no-strings-attached/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:15:23 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32403 The Simons Foundation of New York initiated a new program of Simons Investigators this year, awarding 21 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists $100,000 per year for 5-10 years, no strings attached. Theoretical astrophysicist Eliot Quataert was one of them.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/24/theoretical-astrophysicist-receives-500000-no-strings-attached/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/01/four-uc-berkeley-scientists-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/01/four-uc-berkeley-scientists-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 19:10:47 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=29561 Four University of California, Berkeley, faculty members – physicists John Clarke and Bernard Sadoulet, chemist John Hartwig and ecologist Mary Power – have been elected members or foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, bringing UC Berkeley's total NAS membership to 141.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/01/four-uc-berkeley-scientists-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences/feed/ 0 http://alumni.berkeley.edu/news/california-magazine/winter-2011-taste/a-stellar-discovery http://alumni.berkeley.edu/news/california-magazine/winter-2011-taste/a-stellar-discovery#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:09:02 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=22950 It takes more than luck to find a supernova. California magazine offers a behind-the-scenes look at the organized search for these astronomical objects, and the role played by scientists at Berkeley.]]> http://alumni.berkeley.edu/news/california-magazine/winter-2011-taste/a-stellar-discovery/feed/ 0