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Tuesday, April 6, 2021UC Santa Cruz has appointed Marco Rolandi, professor and chair of the department of electrical and computer engineering, to serve as faculty director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED). -
Thursday, April 1, 2021UC Santa Cruz has received three awards from the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement's Valuing Open and Inclusive Conversation and Engagement (VOICE) Grant Program. -
Tuesday, March 30, 2021Baskin Engineering researchers Oskar Elek and Henry Zhou explore new ways machines can process language to improve overall interpretation. -
Tuesday, March 23, 2021Through participation with the organization Code 2040, the largest racial equity community in tech, alumna Lehua Sparrow is advancing the effort to increase representation of underrepresented groups in tech. -
Monday, March 15, 2021TIM alumna Jessica Xie’s technical expertise and humanitarianism allows her to tackle complex social issues, helping to lead the way to a more equal and just world. -
Wednesday, March 3, 2021The award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging supports the advancement of women in medical imaging sciences. -
Wednesday, March 3, 2021Diverse Voices, a Baskin School of Engineering professional speaker series spotlighting industry leaders and Baskin Engineering alumni, returns April 2021 for its third season.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021Diverse Voices, a professional speaker series, returns this April for its third season. -
Thursday, February 18, 2021Liu’s research aims to achieve more equitable outcomes from decision-making tools based on automated machine-learning algorithms. -
Tuesday, February 16, 2021Leila Takayama will be a keynote speaker and Katherine Isbister will lead a panel on human-computer interaction and games at the annual event on March 12, 2021. -
Friday, February 12, 2021Beginning Feb. 16, 2021, the University Library will offer currently registered students who live on or off campus reservable individual quiet study spaces with access to power/wifi in the Science & Engineering Library.
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Friday, February 12, 2021In honor of Presidents’ Day 2021, and in preparation for Engineers Week, we’re celebrating past presidents who made contributions to the engineering field. -
Thursday, February 11, 2021February 11th marks the 6th International Day of Women and Girls in Science. -
Wednesday, February 10, 2021Three academic support and mentoring programs at UC Santa Cruz have received funding from Genentech’s 2020 Diverse Future of STEM Fund. -
Friday, February 5, 2021CROSS is seeking proposals for new research and incubator projects to be considered at our next Industrial Advisory Board (IAB
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021Cormac Flanagan, professor of computer science and engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's leading computing society. -
Wednesday, January 6, 2021Six student teams at UCSC have been chosen for funding this year through the Tech for Social Good Program run by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UCSC and co-sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020Electrical engineer Ali Yanik is leading a team of infectious disease experts developing a low-cost, easy-to-use platform for diagnosing viral infections in point-of-care settings. -
Tuesday, December 15, 2020In a new book, Computational Media Professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin shows how the fundamental mechanics of games shape their capacity to address important topics.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020A gift from Bud and Rebecca Colligan will expand testing capacity and help fund a new, dedicated laboratory space to house the diagnostic lab in the Genomics Institute’s facilities at the Westside Research Park. -
Monday, December 14, 2020With major funding from NIH, researchers at UC Santa Cruz have acquired powerful imaging tools for studying the structures of biomolecules and their roles in disease. -
Monday, December 14, 2020Applications now open for hackers, mentors, and judges
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Thursday, December 10, 2020Using optical biosensor technology, the test provides quantitative measurements of antibodies in blood plasma in less than 20 minutes. -
Thursday, December 10, 2020Narinder Singh Kapany, a pioneering scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who served as a Regents Professor at UC Santa Cruz and a trustee of the UC Santa Cruz Foundation, died December 3.
