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Technology for a Changing World
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Thursday, September 3, 2020Cal-Bridge is extending its mentorship program to computation-focused students.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2020The Institute for Foundations of Data Science is a collaboration between UC Santa Cruz, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Chicago. -
Monday, August 31, 2020College Ten students take on social justice issues while pushing for positive growth and progress in society. -
Monday, August 31, 2020Two Slug alumni were part of a grueling, 11-day, 416-mile adventure race called Eco-Challenge Fiji, caught in a 10-episode series streaming on Amazon Prime. -
Monday, August 31, 2020In April 2020, Alianza UCMX, a partnership between the University of California and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), put out a special call for “Binational Collaboration Address
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Thursday, August 27, 2020The NSF AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming envisions intelligent computers in classrooms working side-by-side with groups of students. -
Thursday, August 27, 2020Santa Cruz, CA—Computational Media Professor Katherine Isbister at UC Santa Cruz has received $373,000 from the National Science Foundation to fund “Social Virtual Reality Technology to Improve Net
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Wednesday, August 26, 2020Distributed systems are tricky. Multiple unreliable machines are running in parallel, sending messages to each other across network links with arbitrary delays. How can we be confident these systems do what we want despite this chaos? -
Wednesday, August 12, 2020A $4.2 million NIH grant to UCSC’s Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells is funding an innovative program to address underrepresentation of minorities in biomedical faculty. -
Wednesday, August 12, 2020Twenty years after participating in the Human Genome Project, Ph.D. alum Terry Furey (Computer Science, 2002) is researching genetic variations in bodies’ reactions to toxicants, and the molecular basis of Crohn's disease -
Tuesday, August 11, 2020All seventeen of UC Santa Cruz’s graduate engineering programs have chosen to temporarily waive the GRE test requirement for 2021 applicants. Ten programs have permanently dropped the test. -
Friday, July 31, 2020Distinguished Professor Emeritus Phokion Kolaitis and former Professor Wang-Chiew Tan have been awarded the 2020 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation for their ground-breaking work laying the logical foundations for data exchange. -
Wednesday, July 29, 2020The study will assess whether a high-tech fidget device increases focus and relieves anxiety in adults with ADHD, which is particularly relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Wednesday, July 29, 2020NSF grant funds development of a summer camp for middle school girls focused on designing wearable technologies to support social interactions in role-playing games. -
Tuesday, July 28, 2020The campus is testing 200-400 samples every week collected by Salud Para la Gente and Santa Cruz Community Health. UCSC is providing the tests on a cost recovery basis and Community Foundation Santa Cruz County will be paying for the cost of the tests. -
Thursday, July 23, 2020As a Ph.D. student in the Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz alumna Pigi Kouki focused on recommendation systems. Today she works on these systems as a Data Scientist at RelationalAI. -
Tuesday, July 21, 2020Luca de Alfaro, professor of computer science and engineering, received 2020 Test-of-Time Awards from the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) and the International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT). -
Monday, July 20, 2020Sixteen student teams competed for $6000 in prize money in the 2020 UCSC IDEA Hub Pitch Contest. All three finalists were from the Baskin School of Engineering and represented projects for social good. -
Thursday, July 16, 2020The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz has appointed Adwait Ratnaparkhi, former director of voice and natural language understanding R&D at Roku, as executive director of the new master’s degree program in Natural Language Processing. -
Wednesday, July 15, 2020Applied mathematics and statistics M.S. alumna Julissa Martinez describes how statistics allows her to see how the world is changing- especially in the time of Covid-19. -
Tuesday, July 14, 2020The first end-to-end (‘telomere-to-telomere’) completely gapless DNA sequence of a human chromosome is a major milestone for genomics research. -
Tuesday, July 14, 2020The campus seed funding program is providing $40K grants for three new projects to address the challenges of COVID-19. -
Friday, July 10, 2020'Insight into Diversity' magazine has recognized the STEM Diversity Programs at UC Santa Cruz with its 2020 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award.
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Monday, June 22, 2020Engineering students always face obstacles in completing their senior capstone projects, but the pandemic created unique challenges for this year’s teams.
