http://engineering.ucsc.edu News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz en-us Copyright 2008, UC Regents 2000-08-23T07:00+00:00 webmaster@soe.ucsc.edu webmaster@soe.ucsc.edu News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 hourly http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/_images/slug-new.gif http://engineering.ucsc.edu/ webmaster@soe.ucsc.edu http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/2008/05/07/index.html 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. Tim Stephens 2008-05-07T14:29:00 Research News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2008/04/30/index.html 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. 2008-04-30T14:00:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2008/04/29/index.html Professor Scott Brandt 2008-04-29T09:42:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/2008/04/21/index.html 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. Tim Stephens 2008-04-21T13:20:00 Research News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2008/04/14/research_on_optical_data/index.html Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; stephens@ucsc.edu 2008-04-14T17:00:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2008/04/04/index.html 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 Computer Science Assistant Professor Alkis Polyzotis and his student, Karl 2008-04-04T13:13:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2008/04/01/index.html 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. By Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; stephens@ucsc.edu 2008-04-01T10:47:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/ugrads/2008/03/17/index.html 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. Tim Stephens 2008-03-17T14:31:00 Undergraduate Research - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2008/02/13/ucsc_project_aims_to/index.html Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; stephens@ucsc.edu 2008-02-13T16:00:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2008/01/14/ucsc_stands_out_in_survey/index.html By Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; stephens@ucsc.edu 2008-01-14T00:00:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2008/01/02/nobuhiko_kobayashi_wins_best/index.html Karen Schmidt 2008-01-02T16:00:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2007/12/21/computer_security_expert_mart/index.html Karen Schmidt 2007-12-21T16:00:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2007/12/13/5_million_in_new/index.html Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; stephens@ucsc.edu 2007-12-13T16:00:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2007/11/13/ancient_retroviruses_spurred_evolution/index.html 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." Karen Schmidt (831) 459-2495, kfschmid@ucsc.edu; Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495, stephens@ucsc.edu 2007-11-13T16:00:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz