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• Integrated optical trap holds particles for on-chip analysis

  A new type of optical particle trap can be used to manipulate bacteria, viruses and other particles on a chip as part of an integrated optofluidic platform. The optical trap is the latest innovation from researchers at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who are developing new sensor technology for biomedical analysis and other applications.  More

• Baskin Engineering earns top awards at UC Bioengineering Symposium

  UCSC bioengineering researchers made a splash at UC Merced during this year's systemwide symposium on bioengineering.  More

• Baskin Engineering in the news: Robotic exoskeleton and the future of medicine

  The July issue of Popular Science magazine features professor Jacob Rosen's rehabilitation exoskeleton as part of a special section on the future of medicine.  More

• UCSC engineer provides support for World Refugee Day live webcast on June 20

  To mark World Refugee Day on Saturday, June 20, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) will launch its first-ever live webcast from refugee camps in remote locations around the world. Faculty and students at the Baskin School of Engineering helped build the web site (RefugeeDayLive.org) and set up a command center at UCSC's Silicon Valley Center for the live interactive webcast.   More

• UCSC project ranks as one of five "cool cloud computing research projects"

  Debuting this week at the HotCloud conference in San Diego:  "Maximizing Efficiency by Trading Storage for Computation."  A team of researchers from Baskin Engineering's SSRC team, working with startup Pergamum Systems and NetApp, performed the research that is described in this post on Network World's blog.  More

• NSF awards Baskin Engineering graduate student Andrew Uzilov prestigious graduate research fellowship

  Andrew V. Uzilov, a second-year graduate student in the Bioinformatics Ph.D. program at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, received the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation to explore unusual microbes.  The highly-competitive three-year fellowship will support Andrew in his design and application of probabilistic algorithms to discover novel biology.  Resulting discoveries will be aided and validated by high-throughput experiments using next-generation DNA and RNA sequencing technologies.  They will advance the understanding of the most ancient molecular machines.  More

• 2008-2009 undergraduate student awards and scholarships

  The Jack Baskin School of Engineering announced recipients and scholars for the undergraduate awards and scholarships, recognizing their outstanding commitment to engineering, academic achievements, and leadership.  More

• Baskin Engineering in the news: Santa Cruz Interactive MultiTouch Platform wins senior design competition

  From the article published Sunday, June 14, 2009, in SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL and SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS  More