UC Santa Cruz awarded $7.2 million grant for stem cell research center

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has approved a $7.2 million grant to fund a new stem cell research center at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The center will house an interdisciplinary program involving faculty from five departments at UCSC and collaborators at other institutions.
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UC Santa Cruz Part Of Team To Receive Grant to Research Electronics Heat Management

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
A team that includes engineers from UC Santa Cruz, The University of Michigan and Brown University has received a five-year, $6.8-million grant from the Air Force to examine heat management issues in the spectrum of electronic devices from jet engines to personal electronics to nano-scale transistors. Led by Kevin Pipe, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the team has received a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The research group includes nine scientists and engineers from three universities, including Brown University and the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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UCSC / IBM Almaden Computer Scientists awarded Best Student Paper for their work on disk performance virtualization

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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UCSC computer scientists develop solutions for long-term storage of digital data

Monday, April 21, 2008
Although the digital age is well under way, one crucial detail remains to be worked out--how to store vast amounts of digital information in a way that allows future generations to recover it.
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Research on optical data transmission earns best paper award

Monday, April 14, 2008

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ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) Best Newcomer Award

Friday, April 4, 2008
Computer Science Assistant Professor Alkis Polyzotis and his student, Karl Schnaitter have been recognized with the Best Newcomer Award given by the ACM PODS 2008 Conference for their paper "Evaluating Rank Joins with Optimal Cost". PODS is the premiere conference on the theoretical aspects of database systems, and the award is given to the best submission whose authors have not published in previous PODS conferences. For more information on the award, click here: http://www.sigmod.org/pods/awards.html
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Engineering Hope: UCSC bioelectronics engineer designs prostheses that promise to change lives

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Wentai Liu is an electronics wizard whose work is enabling the development of devices once found only in the realm of science fiction—-miniaturized electronic implants to restore vision, movement, and other biological functions lost to disease or injury. A professor of electrical engineering at UC Santa Cruz, Liu is a pioneer in the field of bioelectronics, collaborating with medical doctors and other researchers on ambitious projects that have already achieved remarkable results.
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UC Santa Cruz engineering students win national robotics competition

Monday, March 17, 2008
A team of four students from the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz won the first-place trophy in a national student robotics competition for their design of a solar-powered robot that can climb up a vertical ribbon while carrying a payload. Such a robotic climber would be an essential component of a "space elevator," a concept for transporting material into space via a cable or tether extending from the surface of the Earth into space.
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UCSC project aims to provide a virtual speech therapist via cell phone

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

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UCSC stands out in survey of high-impact research in molecular biology and genetics

Monday, January 14, 2008

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Nobuhiko Kobayashi wins Best Paper Award from International Association of Engineers

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

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Computer security expert Martín Abadi garners Outstanding Innovation Award

Friday, December 21, 2007

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UCSC faculty receive $4.5 million in new grants for stem cell research

Thursday, December 13, 2007

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Ancient retroviruses spurred evolution of gene regulatory networks in primates

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
When ancient retroviruses slipped bits of their DNA into the primate genome millions of years ago, they successfully preserved their own genetic legacy. Today an estimated 8 percent of the human genetic code consists of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs)--the DNA remnants from these so-called "selfish parasites."
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National engineering honor society approves UCSC chapter

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, has approved the installation of a chapter at UC Santa Cruz. The campus's petition was approved last month at the society's annual convention, and the California Alpha Delta Chapter of Tau Beta Pi will be officially installed at UCSC in February 2008.
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Avant-garde video-game blog earns art exhibition at UC Irvine's Beall Center

Monday, October 15, 2007

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HP's Stanley Williams to discuss nanoscale computing at UCSC's Silicon Valley Center on October 25

Monday, October 15, 2007
R. Stanley Williams, a senior fellow at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and founding director of HP's Quantum Science Research group, will discuss nanoscale computing in a free public lecture on Thursday, October 25, hosted by UC Santa Cruz's Baskin School of Engineering and Silicon Valley Center. Williams's talk, titled "Computing at the nanoscale will employ different physics and logic operations," will take place at 4 p.m. in the World Room, Building 943, NASA Ames Research Center.
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UCSC awarded $5 million grant for genome research

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) today announced a $5 million grant to the University of California, Santa Cruz, as part of a four-year project to build a "parts list" of biologically functional elements in the human genome. Under the grant, a team led by James Kent, associate research scientist at UCSC's Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), will establish a Data Coordination Center for the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project.
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Baskin School of Engineering will showcase faculty research projects on Friday, October 12

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

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Baskin School of Engineering will showcase faculty research projects on Friday, October 12

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Research Review Day at UC Santa Cruz's Baskin School of Engineering will showcase groundbreaking research by the engineering school's faculty and graduate students. The all-day event on Friday, October 12--part of the celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Baskin School of Engineering--also features a keynote address by James Hollenhorst of Agilent Laboratories.
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