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Research News
- UC Santa Cruz awarded $7.2 million grant for stem cell research center
- UCSC computer scientists develop solutions for long-term storage of digital data
- UC Santa Cruz engineering students win national robotics competition
- New program color-codes text in Wikipedia entries to indicate trustworthiness
- Silicon chip beams light through a liquid-core waveguide to detect one particle at a time
- UCSC engineer Claire Gu honored by International Society for Optical Engineering
Academic News
- Phillip Berman appointed to Baskin Endowed Chair in Biomolecular Engineering
- Microsoft gift boosts computer science program at UCSC
- New course teaches UCSC students about disability
- UCSC recognized for high percentage of engineering master's degrees awarded to women
- AIDS vaccine expert Phillip Berman to head UCSC Biomolecular Engineering Department
- UCSC creates new major in computer game design
Faculty Recognition
VLDB 2007 Best Paper Awards
Computer Science Assistant Professor Neoklis "Alkis" Polyzotis reported that a paper he coauthored with his students received the runner-up for best-paper award at the VLDB 2007 conference. Their paper, "Depth Estimation for Ranking Query Optimization," written by Karl Schnaitter, Joshua Spiegel, and Neoklis Polyzotis, was runner-up for best paper.
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Prof. Jim Whitehead selected as one of four Distinguished Paper Award winners
Associate Professor Jim Whitehead, reported that a joint paper, "Predicting Faults from Cached History" was selected as one of four Distinguished Paper Award winners at the recent International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007). Authors are Sung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Jim Whitehead, and Andreas Zeller.
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UCSC professors receive Best Paper Award at the IFIP Networking 2007 Conference
The paper "On-Demand Routing in Disrupted Environments," by Jay Boice, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, and Katia Obraczka, received the Best Paper Award at the IFIP Networking 2007 Conference (http://www.ifip-networking.org/) held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 2007.
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UCSC Awarded Sun's Center of Excellence plaque for OpenSPARC
Sun Senior Vice President Sunil Joshi of Design Tools (right) presents the Sun Center of Excellence plaque to Assistant Professor Jose Renau of UC Santa Cruz's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering .
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Computer scientist Phokion Kolaitis elected to Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Phokion Kolaitis, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz, has been elected a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in recognition of his "outstanding academic merits."
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Phillip Berman appointed to Baskin Endowed Chair in Biomolecular Engineering
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has appointed Phillip Berman, professor and chair of biomolecular engineering, to the Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Biomolecular Engineering. Berman is the first faculty member to hold the endowed chair, established in 2003 with a gift of $500,000 from philanthropist Jack Baskin, a UCSC Foundation trustee and longtime supporter of the Baskin School of Engineering.
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David Draper named Fellow of the American Statistical Association
The American Statistical Association (ASA) has selected David Draper, professor and chair of applied mathematics and statistics, as a 2007 Fellow of the ASA. Nominated by their peers, ASA Fellows are recognized by the association as "members of established reputation who have made outstanding contributions in some aspect of statistical work."
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Engineer Dominik Rabus publishes book on optical devices
Dominik Rabus, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has published a book entitled Integrated Ring Resonators (Springer, 2007). Rabus holds a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His book, a new volume in the Springer Series in Optical Sciences, deals with a special form of optical device, called a ring resonator, which has emerged in the last few years in integrated optics.
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UCSC engineer Claire Gu honored by International Society for Optical Engineering
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.
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New course teaches UCSC students about disability
The University of California, Santa Cruz, is offering a new general education course on universal access and assistive technology, enabling students from all majors to learn more about disability and the issues that surround it.
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UCSC engineering dean Steve Kang awarded Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award
The Asian Pacific Fund today announced the recipients of its first annual Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Awards, recognizing Sung-Mo "Steve" Kang, dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Belle W. Y. Wei, dean of the College of Engineering at San Jose State University, for their professional accomplishments and leadership qualities. The honorees will each receive an unrestricted grant of $10,000.
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Biomolecular engineer Jonathan Trent wins Nano 50 award
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."
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Computer Engineering Professor Jose Renau appointed to OpenSPARC community advisory board
Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced the creation of an independent OpenSPARC Community Advisory Board. The board is chartered with setting the direction for OpenSPARC, a community that fosters the creation of tools and derivative chip designs based on Sun's breakthrough UltraSPARC(R) T1 processor. The community now includes a new GNU/Linux distribution, Gentoo Linux, which is supporting UltraSPARC T1 in the latest release of its popular open source operating system (OS), and the first published derivative of the chip design from Simply RISC.
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NIH award supports research on nanopore DNA sequencer
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.
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AIDS vaccine expert Phillip Berman to head UCSC Biomolecular Engineering Department
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has recruited Phillip Berman, a pioneer in the development of recombinant vaccines for AIDS and other infectious diseases, to serve as professor and chair of the Department of Biomolecular Engineering.
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Academic Senate announces 2005-06 Excellence in Teaching Awards
Seven faculty members and 10 teaching assistants have been honored with 2005-06 Excellence in Teaching Awards for their exemplary and inspiring teaching.
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Joshua Stuart to receive Kalpana Chawla award from University of Colorado, Boulder
Joshua Stuart, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering, will be honored by the University of Colorado, Boulder, with the 2006 Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Graduate Award. Stuart will receive the award at a ceremony on May 10.
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Two UCSC faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences
Two faculty members at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were elected to the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering, and Stan Woosley, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, are among 72 new members of the academy elected this year.
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Three UCSC professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Three faculty members at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are among the newly elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are Harry Berger, Jr., professor emeritus of English literature and history of art and visual culture; David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering; and Harold Widom, professor emeritus of mathematics.
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UCSC researchers receive $1.6 million grant for biosensor project
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received major funding from the National Institutes of Health to develop new sensor technology for biomedical applications. The project builds on earlier advances by UCSC researchers in optical and electrical sensing technologies and involves a broad interdisciplinary group of collaborators at UCSC and Brigham Young University.
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