Google has just announced a donation of $1 million in support of UC’s Lick Observatory.  This is fantastic news  and will make a huge difference for science, education, and outreach programs at Lick.  Our group’s work on reverberation mapping of active galaxies with the Lick AGN Monitoring Project collaboration relies on the Lick Shane 3-meter telescope as our primary source of data. The Google support will help to ensure that Lick Observatory will continue to be a leading facility for research on black holes, supernovae, exoplanets, and many other topics.

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/02/10/google-gives-lick-observatory-1-million/