Narinder 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.
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Thursday, December 10, 2020The COVID-19 vaccines were developed in record time with brand new technology. We asked some UCSC researchers about this new vaccine and how it differs from older ones. -
Tuesday, December 8, 2020Leila Parsa, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Lise Getoor, professor of computer science and engineering, have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). -
Tuesday, December 8, 2020Leila Parsa, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). -
Tuesday, December 8, 2020The stories, crafted by alumni of the world-renowned UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Master’s Program, cover projects across the five academic devisions.
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Monday, November 30, 2020Thirteen undergraduates were recognized for their research accomplishments at the world’s largest competition in synthetic biology. -
Wednesday, November 18, 2020A new list of the world's most highly cited researchers includes 19 scientists and engineers at UC Santa Cruz.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has provided major funding for research and training at UC Santa Cruz since its creation in 2004. -
Monday, November 16, 2020A team of UC Santa Cruz researchers led by computer science Professor Seshadhri Comandur have completely characterized the kind of six-person plus complex patterns that can be efficiently counted o
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Thursday, November 12, 2020A new project on recommender dialogue systems led by Getoor and her collaborators at UC Santa Barbara and USC will receive $1 million in funding over three years. -
Wednesday, November 11, 2020Important new studies of the evolution of birds and mammals relied on Progressive Cactus, a genome alignment tool developed at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. -
Monday, November 9, 2020Remote learning has its challenges, but the newest class of Banana Slugs is making the most out of this uncharted experience. -
Thursday, November 5, 2020Fatemeh Mirzaei, a graduate student in computer science and engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering, is one of 40 student entrepreneurs selected for the Fall 2020 LaunchPad Fellowship program. -
Thursday, November 5, 2020Muratcan Cicek, a Ph.D. candidate in computer engineering who won a prestigious 2020 Google Ph.D. fellowship, is working to improve head-based pointing methods for those who cannot use a mouse or trackpad. -
Thursday, November 5, 2020The CROSS funded Tracery and Chancery project, which focused on computational support for casual creators, officially graduated from the Center’s incubator program a
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Monday, October 26, 2020Big Ideas contest, open to all UC students, seeks student-led, early-stage projects or ideas with a social impact focus.
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Friday, October 23, 2020Through campus shutdowns, wildfires, and a two-week quarantine, 13 UCSC students have been finding ways to research a solution to agricultural plastic pollution. -
Wednesday, October 21, 2020Controlling a robot’s movement typically requires laborious programming. A team of UC Santa Cruz researchers in the Braingeneers group are applying a different approach. -
Tuesday, October 20, 2020Neel Sundaresan, adjunct professor of computer science and engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, and VP of engineering at Microsoft, Cloud & AI shared some advice for UC Santa Cruz engineers interested in applying to internships during the junior year.
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Monday, October 12, 2020Santa Cruz, CA—A team led by Holger Schmidt, professor of electrical and computer engineering and Narinder Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics at the University of California, Santa Cruz have demonstra
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Friday, October 9, 2020Students can get up to $5,000 in funding for projects looking to solve societal challenges.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020The NSF’s Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program has awarded $1.2 million to a team led by Ricardo Sanfelice to develop and demonstrate algorithms capable of autonomously adapting their motion plan and control actions. -
Thursday, October 1, 2020UC Santa Cruz is welcoming 43 new faculty members to campus this academic year. Areas of expertise include psychology, mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics, computer science and engineering, and much more.
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Thursday, October 1, 2020The Baskin School of Engineering welcomes nine new faculty members this year, bringing the total faculty count to 115.
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Monday, September 28, 2020The UCSC Office of Research has awarded seed funding to six campus research groups to support their efforts to develop innovative new research centers.
