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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Lick Observatory receives $1 million gift from Google Inc.

Lorenz Angelo Gonzales/File

$500,000 of the funds have already been funneled into the observatory’s general expenses, with another $500,000 to be donated this year — on top of the annual $1.5 million provided by the UC Office of the President, according to UC Berkeley astronomy professor Alex Filippenko.
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