http://engineering.ucsc.edu Research 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 Research 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/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/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/research/2007/08/02/index.html The online reference site Wikipedia enjoys immense popularity despite nagging doubts about the reliability of entries written by its all-volunteer team. A new program developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, aims to help with the problem by color-coding an entry's individual phrases based on contributors' past performance. Hugh Powell & Tim Stephens 2007-08-02T14:37:00 Research News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/2007/07/02/index.html By guiding light through liquid-filled channels smaller than a human hair, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Brigham Young University have succeeded in building a silicon chip that can detect tiny particles one at a time. The research, published online this week in the journal Lab on a Chip, could revolutionize the fields of medical and environmental sampling by making analyses sensitive, portable, and fast. Hugh Powell 2007-07-02T14:34:00 Research News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/2007/04/18/index.html Claire Gu, professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been elected a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Gu is among 56 new Fellows honored by the society this year as members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. Tim Stephens 2007-04-18T11:54:00 Research News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/ugrads/2007/04/10/index.html David Munday and Matthew Minolli could have graduated last June with degrees in computer engineering. Instead, they got so wrapped up in their senior design project they decided to stay at UCSC for a fifth year as undergraduates so they could see the project through to completion. By the end of this year, they hope to have their wireless sensor network deployed in Yellowstone National Park by the scientists who track one of the world’s largest active volcanic systems. Tim Stephens 2007-04-10T13:16:00 Undergraduate Research - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/ugrads/2007/03/29/index.html Undergraduate students in computer engineering and electrical engineering presented their senior design projects before a panel of judges in the Baskin School of Engineering's Senior Design Contest on Friday, March 23. Contributions from individual donors provided $1,000 in prize money, which was divided among the top three teams. Tim Stephens 2007-03-29T12:34:00 Undergraduate Research - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/2007/03/07/index.html HP has joined the University of California, Santa Cruz, and NASA in a new venture focused on developing revolutionary science breakthroughs in the coming decades. Tim Stephens 2007-03-07T12:33:00 Research News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/2007/01/18/index.html Something to ponder next time you fill up your gas tank: Two-thirds of the energy produced by burning that fuel in your car's engine will be wasted as heat, while only one-third will be used to get where you want to go. UC Santa Cruz researchers are trying to change that. Roger Sideman 2007-01-18T12:17:00 Research News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/2006/12/06/casp07/index.html Every second summer, professor of biomolecular engineering Kevin Karplus and his laboratory of bioinformatic scientists forgo the beach so that they can come out ahead in the biggest bioinformatic competition in the world. This year was the seventh such competition: the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP 7). Branwyn Wagman 2006-12-06T10:14:00 Research News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/2006/11/27/index.html UCSC computer engineers contributed to a demonstration of high-speed networking technology by a team of industry leaders at an international conference in November. The team--including Finisar, Infinera, Internet2, Level 3 Communications, and UCSC--implemented the first demonstration of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE), successfully transmitting a signal at a rate of 100 billion bits per second. Tim Stephens 2006-11-27T11:37:00 Research News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2006/11/13/index.html Jonathan Trent, an adjunct professor of biomolecular engineering, was chosen by Nanotech Briefs magazine to receive a Nano 50 award. The Nano 50 awards recognize the "top 50 technologies, products, and innovators that have significantly impacted, or are expected to impact, the state of the art in nanotechnology." Tim Stephens 2006-11-13T16:14:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/research/2006/09/27/nih_award_supports_research/index.html William Dunbar, an assistant professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has received a career development award from the National Institutes of Health. The Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award is designed to encourage researchers with backgrounds in quantitative science and engineering to focus on questions relating to health and disease. Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; stephens@ucsc.edu 2006-09-27T17:00:00 Research News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/news/2006/09/07/researchers_tackle_problem_of/index.html The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a five-year, $11 million grant to researchers at three universities and five national laboratories to find new ways of managing the torrent of data that will be produced by the coming generation of supercomputers. The Petascale Data Storage Institute includes researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Michigan, and the DOE's Los Alamos, Sandia, Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratories. Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; stephens@ucsc.edu 2006-09-07T17:00:00 News - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz