In an effort to speed the design and development of an artificial retina that could potentially help millions of people blinded by retinal diseases, five Department of Energy (DOE) national laborat
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Monday, October 4, 2004
With over 100 employees and funding for current research tasks at about $18 million, the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) at Moffett Field has quickly become a dynamic center of activit
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Friday, October 1, 2004Wang-Chiew Tan, assistant professor of computer science, has received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for new faculty members from the Faculty Early Career Development (CAR
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Monday, September 20, 2004Completion of the Engineering 2 Building this summer has added 150,000 square feet of new office, laboratory, and classroom space on campus, primarily for the Baskin School of Engineering.
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Monday, July 26, 2004Playing the ancient Chinese game of go is among the tasks that awaits a powerful new cluster of Macintosh G5 computers set up at UCSC to tackle complex problems in physics and computer science.
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Monday, July 5, 2004
As the international ENCODE project gains steam, the UCSC Genome Browser has added features tailored to this project.
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Monday, June 14, 2004
Roughly 15 percent of undergraduates in UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering are women, which is typical of engineering programs nationwide.
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Monday, June 7, 2004Bruce Chizen, president and CEO of Adobe Systems Incorporated, will be the keynote speaker this year at the commencement exercises for UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering.
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Monday, May 31, 2004It takes a few years for most college graduates to establish a career and begin making a name for themselves.
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Monday, May 31, 2004
CBSE faculty affiliates Kevin Karplus and Manny Ares have received the 2003-2004 Excellence in Teaching Awards.
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Monday, May 24, 2004The Multicultural Engineering Program (MEP) at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering has received the 2004 UCSC Excellence Through Diversity Award for outstanding accomplishments in furthering UCSC
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Monday, May 10, 2004Researchers comparing the human genome with the genomes of other species have discovered a surprising number of matching DNA sequences in a variety of vertebrate species, including the mouse, rat,
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Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Two decade-old parables illustrating the differences between geneticists and biochemists and the relative merits of the two approaches strike a chord with today's scientists, even as the two approa
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Monday, May 3, 2004The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering and director of UCSC's Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), a coreci
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) have awarded David Haussler the Allen Newell Award for groundbreaking contributions tha
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Monday, April 26, 2004
UCSC has joined with two prominent Silicon Valley community colleges--Foothill College and De Anza College--to launch a new program that will help students prepare for careers in engineering.
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Monday, April 19, 2004In the four years since the first draft of the human genome sequence was made available to researchers worldwide, scientists have scrambled to make sense of the information it contains.
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Monday, April 5, 2004While fiberoptic cables carry data at the speed of light over the Internet backbone, the equipment that directs Internet traffic--the switches and routers that get data to the right places--still r
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Thursday, April 1, 2004The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) genome today joined the growing number of species genomes available using the UCSC Genome Browser and Blat server.
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Thursday, February 19, 2004
UC Santa Cruz has just launched a new Biomolecular Engineering (BME) Department within the Jack Baskin School of Engineering.
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Monday, February 16, 2004
UCSC has established a new Department of Biomolecular Engineering within the Baskin School of Engineering.
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Monday, February 9, 2004The volume of spam clogging the nation's In boxes crossed a threshold of sorts last year, prompting action on several fronts to thwart the onslaught of unsolicited commercial e-mail.
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Monday, January 19, 2004As part of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group, computer science graduate student Krishna Roskin collaborates with leading genome researchers at UCSC and at top research centers around the world.
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Sunday, January 18, 2004Graduate student Krishna Roskin started with the UCSC genome browser project while an undergraduate.
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Friday, January 9, 2004
David Haussler's Genome Bioinformatics Group at UCSC has joined the ENCODE project (for ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements), sponsored by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
