Outstanding GSI Award Recipient Shares His Love for Astronomy and Teaching Supernova Explosion; Photo Credits: NASA The Universe. One of the topics we have all been highly intrigued about since a young age.…
The Robert P. Lin Graduate Fellowship — 3/30/2018 The Robert P. Lin Graduate Fellowship was established in 2012 with a gift from Robert P. Lin’s wife, Lily Lin. It will…
Astrophysics Ph.D. Student Discovers New Solar System Erik Petigura found three planets that are similar to the Earth by analyzing data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.
2012 at Berkeley: a quick look back A year with leaping lizards and tailed robots, a $60-million-dollar institute for Berkeley, a theory proven 40 years later, a crucial election, and a transition at the very top of the campus food chain.
GSI honors for a dozen new ways of helping people learn These 12 people, in some ways the crème de la crème of this year's top graduate student instructors, have effectively, and often cleverly, identified, addressed, and documented a teaching problem they encountered and, for the benefit of all, told how they solved it. Read, for instance, how Sonja Schwartz reinvented the bean jar.
Two massive black holes are discovered lurking in monster galaxies Astronomers at Berkeley have discovered the largest black holes to date — two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion suns that are threatening to consume anything, even light, within a region five times the size of our solar system.
Adventure Man In a field where the progress of research and career are usually sequential, orderly, and predictable, Rich Muller is a wild card, rocketing wherever the first tantalizing inkling of a puzzle takes him until he has the explanation pinned down satisfactorily. Then he abruptly goes elsewhere, as if cued by the Monty Python catchphrase (first used to introduce a sketch about a man with three buttocks) — “And now for something completely different.”