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
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Friday, July 15, 2005A 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
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Monday, July 11, 2005The 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
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Monday, July 11, 2005A 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
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005Nanotechnology 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.
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Monday, June 27, 2005SlugGo, 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.
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Monday, June 27, 2005
Electrical engineering graduate student Dongliang Yin and Professor Holger Schmidt were awarded a major training grant for optical studies of biological molecules.
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Monday, June 27, 2005The 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
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Friday, June 24, 2005The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has extended the appointment of biologist Yishi Jin as a HHMI investigator for five years through August 2010.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005Steve 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
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Monday, May 30, 2005Steve 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
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005Five 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
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Friday, May 13, 2005A 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
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Monday, May 9, 2005The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative has awarded a $50,000 grant for nanotechnology research to Holger Schmidt, assistant professor of electrical engineering.
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Monday, May 9, 2005Electrical engineering professor Holger Schmidt has received a $50,000 grant from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative.
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Monday, May 2, 2005
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.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Morteza Shahram, a graduate student in electrical engineering, was selected as a winner of the student paper contest at a major international conference.
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Monday, April 18, 2005The University of California, Santa Cruz, has appointed Darrell Long, professor of computer science, to the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005The Searle Scholars Program has awarded Melissa Jurica a three-year, $240,000 grant to support her research.
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Monday, April 11, 2005The Jack Baskin School of Engineering has honored three faculty members with FIRST Professor Awards in recognition of their achievements in research, teaching, and service.
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Monday, April 4, 2005Jane Wilhelms, professor of computer science and an expert in computer graphics and animation, died of cancer on March 26 in Santa Cruz. She was 56.
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Monday, April 4, 2005Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are leading a major collaborative effort to develop the technology for complex wireless communication networks that can be set up in rapidly
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Monday, March 28, 2005The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in computer science to Cormac Flanagan, assistant professor of computer science at UCSC.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005The development of interactive computer video games has become a multi-billion-dollar industry that caters to the legions of gaming enthusiasts with a steady output of new games featuring ever grea
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Monday, March 21, 2005Steve Kang, dean of UCSC's Jack Baskin School of Engineering, has been appointed to the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology (BRTFN), a joint federal-state venture to benefit Silicon Valley and
