The Baskin School of Engineering hosted 35 incoming engineering students last month for a weeklong program of activities designed to give them a head start in their first quarter at UCSC.
The Baskin School of Engineering hosted 35 incoming engineering students last month for a weeklong program of activities designed to give them a head start in their first quarter at UCSC.
New insights into the genetic differences between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relatives on the tree of life, are emerging from a comparative analysis of the genomes of the two species.
New insights into the genetic differences between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relatives on the tree of life, are emerging from a comparative analysis of the genomes of the two species.
UC Santa Cruz is doing something about the shortage of American engineers.
Researchers studying the molecular mechanisms that control cell growth and division are piecing together a surprising and complicated regulatory system that offers promising targets for anticancer
A team including David Deamer and Mark Akeson has received a major grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to develop new technology for genome sequencing.
A team including researchers at UCSC has received a major grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to develop new technology for genome sequencing.
A team including researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a major grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to develop new technology for genome s
A landmark comparative genomics study appearing in the journal Genome Research describes the most comprehensive comparison of conserved DNA sequences in the genomes of vertebrates, insects
The sixth annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, held at UCSC in June, brought together a broad range of scientists and students to exchange ideas and share recent advances in the field of
A team of engineering students whose high-flying weather balloon plunged into the Pacific Ocean this spring got a crucial assist from engineers at SanDisk Corporation, who salvaged valuable data fr
Nanotechnology may hold the key to developing a viable hydrogen fuel economy, according to Jin Zhang, professor of chemistry and biochemistry. Zhang will receive $535,000 in grants from the U.S.
SlugGo, a computer program designed at UCSC to play the ancient Chinese game of go, entered its first computer go tournament this month and came out on top.
Electrical engineering graduate student Dongliang Yin and Professor Holger Schmidt were awarded a major training grant for optical studies of biological molecules.
The sixth annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium, held at UCSC in June, brought together a broad range of scientists and students to exchange ideas and share recent advances in the field of
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has extended the appointment of biologist Yishi Jin as a HHMI investigator for five years through August 2010.
Steve Kang, dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been awarded the 2005 Mac Van Valkenburg Award from the Institute for Electrical and Electronic
Steve Kang, dean of UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering, has been awarded the 2005 Mac Van Valkenburg Award from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Circuits and Systems S
Five senior engineering students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are trying to push the limits of low-power wireless transmission to facilitate the monitoring of remote natural environ
A project to sequence the genomes of five microscopic species that grow and live in boiling hot conditions, members of the domain Archaea, has received support from the Community Sequencing Program
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative has awarded a $50,000 grant for nanotechnology research to Holger Schmidt, assistant professor of electrical engineering.
Electrical engineering professor Holger Schmidt has received a $50,000 grant from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative.
Hewlett-Packard has selected UCSC to receive a 2005 HP Technology for Teaching grant, designed to transform and improve learning in the classroom through innovative uses of technology.
Morteza Shahram, a graduate student in electrical engineering, was selected as a winner of the student paper contest at a major international conference.
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has appointed Darrell Long, professor of computer science, to the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems.