Nicholas de Monchaux, Local Codes: Mapping and Transforming a City's Forgotten Public Space, Wednesday, September 8, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 506

Dr. Alan Evans, How Optics Drives Innovation at Corning, Friday, September 17, 9:00 am, Engineering 2, Room 599

Computer Engineering 23rd Anniversary, Saturday, September 25, 12:00 pm, Baskin School of Engineering, E2 Courtyard; Dinner at University Center

Assistant Professor Richard Gregory, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Posttranscriptional control of embryonic stem cell proliferation, Monday, September 27, 12:30 pm, Natural Sciences, Room 101

Summer interns gain research experience in Silicon Valley nanotech labs

Dozens of students gained valuable experience in nanotechnology and energy research labs this summer through an internship program at the Advanced Studies Laboratories (ASL), a collaborative partnership led by UC Santa Cruz and NASA Ames Research Center. The student research projects, ranging from solar energy technology to thermoelectric devices, were on display in a poster session held last week in the ASL facility at NASA Ames, located at Moffett Field in Mountain View.  More

50 Undergraduates Complete Summers of Mentored Research

Over 50 student researchers presented the results of their work at the 2010 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium in the Baskin Engineering Courtyard.  The new event coordinated the culminating poster presentation days of five different programs and included additional undergraduate scholars from other laboratories.  More

Steelhead study earns best paper award from American Fisheries Society

The American Fisheries Society has selected a paper on steelhead trout by UC Santa Cruz researcher William Satterthwaite as the best publication for 2009 in the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.   More

STING in the world of biosensor technology

How could you go about finding one particular bee in a hive bustling with activity? Extending this analogy to early cancer and pathogen detection gives the sense of what is required when cell biologists search for one type of biomolecule in a crowded and constantly-changing environment.  More

New Book on Emerging Field Published by UCSC Electrical Engineer

CRC Press recently released the new Handbook of Optofluidics, co-edited by Holger Schmidt, professor of electrical engineering and director of the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics. The book is one of the first comprehensive resources on the emerging field of optofluidics, which involves the marriage of optics and microfluidics into novel integrated devices and systems.  More

Computer Scientists Greg Levin, Caitlin Sadowski, Ian Pye and Scott Brandt win Best Paper at ECRTS 2010

The Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS) presented its 2010 Best Paper award to Computer Science Ph.D. Students Greg Levin, Caitlin Sadowski and Ian Pye, CS Professor Scott Brandt, and their collaborator Shelby Funk (University of Georgia) for their work "DP-FAIR: A Simple Model for Understanding Optimal Multiprocessor Scheduilng."  More

Girls discover engineering potential at UC Santa Cruz

The 29 middle school girls who graduated from the fourth annual Girls in Engineering program Friday described their two weeks on the UC Santa Cruz campus as "awesome," "interesting," "fun," and yes, "inspiring."  More

UCSC computer scientist a winner in 'news challenge' for innovative project

Twelve media innovation projects have been selected as winners of the 2010 Knight News Challenge, a contest that funds new-technology ideas that will shape the future of news and civic media.  More