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Technology for a Changing World
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Friday, July 10, 2020
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Monday, June 22, 2020Engineering students always face obstacles in completing their senior capstone projects, but the pandemic created unique challenges for this year’s teams. -
Thursday, June 18, 2020The father and uncle of the virologist Rebecca DuBois, UC Santa Cruz Cruz associate professor of biomolecular engineering, are honoring and helping to fund her research through sales of their "Going Viral" wine. -
Thursday, June 18, 2020The father and uncle of the virologist Rebecca DuBois, UC Santa Cruz Cruz associate professor of biomolecular engineering, are honoring and helping to fund her research through sales of their "Going Viral" wine. -
Monday, June 15, 2020The UC Santa Cruz Committee on Teaching has announced the eight recipients of the 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award.
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Friday, June 5, 2020The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s Genome Browser Team has received UC seed funding for its work on the UCSC Genome Browser for SARS-CoV-2. -
Thursday, June 4, 2020As news outlets published stories about celebrities and athletes unnecessarily getting tested for COVID-19, UC Santa Cruz scientists and staff saw an opportunity to provide fast testing for the community's most vulnerable residents who too often do not have access to the same medical services. -
Monday, June 1, 2020Data storage devices and other emerging technologies use magnetic elements smaller than 100 nanometers, but studying their magnetization dynamics can be a challenge. -
Thursday, May 21, 2020Congratulations slug engineers!
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Monday, May 18, 2020UC Santa Cruz’s Team Athena is one of five teams remaining in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge from a field of 375 applicants from around the world. -
Friday, May 15, 2020Lynne Sheehan, network administrator for the Baskin School of Engineering and avid supporter of Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz, is retiring after 33 years of service to UC Santa C
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Thursday, May 14, 2020Biomolecular engineer Nader Pourmand is evaluating the use of a novel nanosensor to provide rapid, low-cost, and accurate serology tests for coronavirus antibodies. -
Thursday, May 14, 2020UC Santa Cruz’s first college prides itself on academic rigor and the spirit of community, living up to its motto: “The pursuit of truth in the company of friends.” -
Thursday, May 14, 2020A sea otter genome browser — featuring the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s beloved Gidget – is now available to the public. -
Wednesday, May 13, 2020Three projects led by UC Santa Cruz researchers are among the 25 awards in the initial round of funding from CITRIS and the Banatao Institute. -
Tuesday, May 12, 2020UCSC researchers developed a deep-learning framework called Morpheus to perform pixel-level morphological classifications of objects in astronomical images. -
Friday, May 8, 2020CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC Santa Cruz is inviting UCSC researchers to apply for research support for projects focused on providing solutions to issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and disaster preparedness.
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Thursday, May 7, 2020Computational Media Ph.D student Oleksandra Keehl will use the award to help develop a mobile game designed to help Japanese language learners master kanji, Japanese logographic script. -
Monday, May 4, 2020The dawn of good, fast, and cheap human genome assembly has arrived, thanks in part to collaboration and innovation by an international team led by UC Santa Cruz researchers. -
Friday, May 1, 2020Ricardo Sanfelice, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received the 2020 Test-of-Time Award from the Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) conference. -
Thursday, April 30, 2020As a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz, Shereen Oraby was on the cutting edge of research in Natural Language Processing. Now she is working on developing machine learning models for one of the world's best-known virtual assistants. -
Friday, April 24, 2020Incoming AD prepares to take on role as “change agent” to enhance education for engineering students -
Thursday, April 23, 2020Last December, TEDx Santa Cruz hosted a day-long extravaganza of talks curated around the theme of "The Art of Hope." Those talks, including ones by several UCSC affiliates, are now available for online viewing.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020In 2012, seven female students from the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz were admitted to a unique scholarship program at eBay. Eight years later, four of these students can call themselves inventors. -
Friday, April 17, 2020Sina Farsiu graduated with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Baskin School of Engineering in 2005. Now he runs his own Vision and Image Processing Lab at Duke University.
