Scott Schmidler - Deparment of Statistical Sciences, Duke University, Statistical Modeling in Computational Biophysics, Monday, October 13, 4:00 pm, Engineering 2 Building, Room 180

Kenn Knowles, Graduate Student, UCSC Computer Science, "What is a Monad?", Wednesday, October 15, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2 Building, Room 392

CITRIS: Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions Workshop, Friday, October 17, 9:00 am, 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Kentaro Toyama - Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research India, Computing for Socio-Economic Development, Monday, October 20, 11:00 am, Engineering 2 Building, Room 506

Nancy Reid - Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, Canada, Composite likelihood inference in complex models, Monday, October 20, 4:00 pm, Engineering 2 Building, Room 180

Andrew Moore - Ocean Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, Stochastic Forcing of the North Atlantic Ocean Circulation, Monday, October 27, 4:00 pm, Engineering 2 Building, Room 180

Baskin School of Engineering will showcase faculty research on Friday, October 17

The innovative and transformative research conducted by faculty in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, led to a record $27 million in gifts and research awards in the 2007-08 fiscal year. The school's Research Review Day on Friday, October 17, will include faculty research presentations, graduate student posters, and more.  More

New NSF grant boosts Assistive Technology research at UC Santa Cruz

A team of universities including UC Santa Cruz, Penn, U of Minnesota and U of Maine, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation under the Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation program, for a total amount of $1.5M. The project, titled "Cyber Enhancement of Spatial Cognition for the Visually Impaired", will develop technology for wayfinding without sight in urban environments. The goal is to design and prototype a wearable sensor platform that tracks the blind user's path and provides directions based on automated visual analysis of the scene. This work has great potential for improving the independence and quality of life of visually impaired individuals, for whom independent mobility in unfamiliar environments can be extremely challenging.  More

Settlement provides $457,000 in financial aid for students in UC Santa Cruz's computer game design major

Students at UC Santa Cruz majoring in computer game design--an interdisciplinary program that provides a rigorous background in the technical, artistic, and narrative elements of creating interactive computer games--are the lucky beneficiaries of a settlement reached in a class action lawsuit involving video gaming employees at Sony.  More

Second annual 'Founders Day' gala dinner to honor three exceptional individuals

UC Santa Cruz hosts its second annual Founders Day gala dinner at the Cocoanut Grove on Friday, October 24, beginning at 7 p.m.   More

UCSC wins NSF grant to train more math and science teachers

"There is an ongoing need for highly qualified math and physical science teachers in California schools, and this grant allows us to help more students follow that career path," said Gretchen Andreasen, director of UCSC's Cal Teach Resource Center, who will manage the Noyce Scholars Program.  More