It is now possible for computers to reconstruct the DNA of the ancestor common to all placental mammals, including humans.
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Saturday, November 27, 2004UCSC's just-dedicated Engineering 2 has received a merit award for design from the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter.
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Monday, November 8, 2004Top UC officials, including President Robert C.
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Friday, November 5, 2004
Kumar Malavalli, cofounder of Brocade Communications and cofounder and CEO of InMage Systems, has made a gift of $1 million to the University of California, Santa Cruz, to establish the Kumar Malav
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Friday, November 5, 2004Harry Noller, the Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology at UCSC, and Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovat, Israel, have been awarded the 2004 Massry Prize.
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Monday, November 1, 2004UCSC will dedicate the new Engineering 2 Building and the Jack Baskin Engineering Auditorium on Friday, November 5, in ceremonies that will include UC President Robert C.
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Monday, October 25, 2004
UCSC researchers have reported the first demonstration of integrated optical waveguides with liquid cores, a technology that enables light propagation through small volumes of liquids on a chip.
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Monday, October 25, 2004
A pair of papers published last week in the two leading scientific journals mark the completion of the Human Genome Project and the start of a new project to find all of the functional elements in
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Monday, October 18, 2004
In an effort to speed the design and development of an artificial retina that could potentially help millions of people blinded by retinal diseases, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced la
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Monday, October 18, 2004Holger Schmidt and graduate student Dongliang Yin have demonstrated a technology that enables light propagation through small volumes of liquids on a chip'integrated optical waveguides with liquid
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Thursday, October 14, 2004In an effort to speed the design and development of an artificial retina that could potentially help millions of people blinded by retinal diseases, five Department of Energy (DOE) national laborat
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Monday, October 4, 2004
With over 100 employees and funding for current research tasks at about $18 million, the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) at Moffett Field has quickly become a dynamic center of activit
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Friday, October 1, 2004Wang-Chiew Tan, assistant professor of computer science, has received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for new faculty members from the Faculty Early Career Development (CAR
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Monday, September 20, 2004Completion of the Engineering 2 Building this summer has added 150,000 square feet of new office, laboratory, and classroom space on campus, primarily for the Baskin School of Engineering.
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Monday, July 26, 2004Playing the ancient Chinese game of go is among the tasks that awaits a powerful new cluster of Macintosh G5 computers set up at UCSC to tackle complex problems in physics and computer science.
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Monday, July 5, 2004
As the international ENCODE project gains steam, the UCSC Genome Browser has added features tailored to this project.
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Monday, June 14, 2004
Roughly 15 percent of undergraduates in UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering are women, which is typical of engineering programs nationwide.
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Monday, June 7, 2004Bruce Chizen, president and CEO of Adobe Systems Incorporated, will be the keynote speaker this year at the commencement exercises for UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering.
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Monday, May 31, 2004It takes a few years for most college graduates to establish a career and begin making a name for themselves.
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Monday, May 31, 2004
CBSE faculty affiliates Kevin Karplus and Manny Ares have received the 2003-2004 Excellence in Teaching Awards.
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Monday, May 24, 2004The Multicultural Engineering Program (MEP) at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering has received the 2004 UCSC Excellence Through Diversity Award for outstanding accomplishments in furthering UCSC
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Monday, May 10, 2004Researchers comparing the human genome with the genomes of other species have discovered a surprising number of matching DNA sequences in a variety of vertebrate species, including the mouse, rat,
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Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Two decade-old parables illustrating the differences between geneticists and biochemists and the relative merits of the two approaches strike a chord with today's scientists, even as the two approa
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Monday, May 3, 2004The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering and director of UCSC's Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), a coreci
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) have awarded David Haussler the Allen Newell Award for groundbreaking contributions tha
