Entanglements of humpback whales in fishing gear along the U.S. West Coast increased dramatically during the 2014 to 2016 marine heat wave known as the ‘warm blob’.
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Friday, January 17, 2020The SIM (Semantic Interior Mapology) web tool has been launched online
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020The 2020 CITRIS Core Seed Funding program is now open for submissions.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020Jack Baskin, an entrepreneur and major philanthropic supporter of UC Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz community, died at his home in Carmel on January 12. -
Thursday, January 9, 2020Biomolecular engineer Rebecca DuBois is collaborating on a large multi-institutional NIH project to create a universal vaccine for influenza. -
Monday, January 6, 2020While the rest of campus was winding down in anticipation of Thanksgiving break, Baskin Engineering hosted the western portion of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Association. -
Monday, December 23, 2019Baskin Engineering staff and faculty raise funds for Santa Cruz county's Second Harvest Food Bank -
Monday, December 16, 2019Based at UCSC’s Silicon Valley Campus, the new professional master’s degree offers training in the burgeoning field of computational processing of speech and text. -
Wednesday, December 11, 2019Keith Corzine, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. -
Wednesday, December 11, 2019Lise Getoor, professor of computer science and engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. -
Friday, December 6, 2019With funding and other support from Amazon, university teams compete to advance conversational AI. -
Thursday, December 5, 2019On October 31st, six leading figures from the broader engineering and technology community converged on UC Santa Cruz for the inaugural Baskin School of Engineering Dean’s Council meeting.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2019Holger Schmidt, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. -
Monday, December 2, 2019For Allen Aboytes, one of the best things about working in the field of computer engineering is the cooperation with others to achieve a goal. -
Monday, December 2, 2019Nine UCSC affiliates will join novelist Jonathan Franzen and a host of other speakers for TEDx Santa Cruz, a daylong extravaganza focused this year on the "Art of Hope," on Saturday, Dec. 7. -
Tuesday, November 19, 2019The 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list includes 18 scientists and engineers at UC Santa Cruz.
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Monday, November 18, 2019This series highlights the achievements of UCSC engineering faculty, alumni, and student researchers whose work best epitomizes our university’s shared values of high-impact research with an uncommon commitment to teaching, social responsibility, and community. -
Monday, November 18, 2019Nature Methods has published “Nanopore native RNA sequencing of a human poly(A) transcriptome,” the results of a multi-university consortium’s investigation into this brand new method of RNA sequencing. -
Tuesday, November 12, 2019Computer scientist Owen Arden will lead the UCSC effort in the Baskin School of Engineering. -
Friday, November 8, 2019Prof. Leila Takayama and Kevin Weatherwax have been discussing ways to streamline the garbled three-way conversation between oceanographers, engineers and the robots and autonomous vehicles prowling beneath the Monterey Bay (and beyond). -
Monday, November 4, 2019When the nonprofit Girls Who Code started a new “College Loops” program last year, students at UC Santa Cruz were quick to establish a branch. -
Wednesday, October 30, 2019UCSC faculty are using the new system for research in astrophysics, climate science, materials science, chemistry, and other fields. -
Monday, October 28, 2019The Next Generation Scholars in Applied Mathematics program will provide students interested in completing a MS degree in Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics with several important resources. This includes financial support (up to $20,000 in scholarships), personalized academic mentoring and counseling, peer support, and career advising. Applications close on November 25th, 2019. Please see https://sam.soe.ucsc.edu for more information. -
Friday, October 25, 2019Analyzing gene expression in tumor cells from children with cancer is more likely to reveal targets for therapy than analysis of DNA mutations, according to a new study led by UCSC researchers. -
Thursday, October 24, 2019Solving functional differential equations could have an enormous impact, particularly with respect to materials science, condensed-matter physics, and toward improving the accuracy of large-scale simulations such as weather forecasts.
