2015
Engineering News
- December 16, 2015
UCSC hires game designer Erin Swink as creative director of master's program
Independent game developer Erin Robinson Swink will be creative director of the master's program in games and playable media
- December 11, 2015
Computer scientist Wang-Chiew Tan named ACM Fellow
Tan, a professor of computer science, was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- December 08, 2015
The year in review at UC Santa Cruz
At UC Santa Cruz, 2015 was a year celebrating our 50th anniversary by advancing knowledge, challenging the status quo, and taking risks. And the campus capped it all off with a big top celebration.
- December 02, 2015
UC Santa Cruz will host third annual hackathon January 29 to 31
Hack UCSC 2016 will draw coders, designers, and entrepreneurs for a coding marathon
- December 01, 2015
UC Santa Cruz hosts international summer program on exoplanetary atmospheres
The 2016 Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics will focus on 'Exoplanetary Atmospheres.'
- November 19, 2015
Campus fills eight UC Presidential chairs in support of research mission
The eight new chairs - in everything from screenwriting to open-source software - bring the campus total to 30.
- October 19, 2015
Big ideas
From saving falcons to peering into the universe, sequencing the human genome, and putting organic food on American tables, UC Santa Cruz has become known as the small university where big things happen.
- October 05, 2015
New on-chip optical sensing technique used to detect multiple flu strains
Researchers developed a new way to do diagnostic assays for multiple strains of flu virus on a small, dedicated chip.
- September 30, 2015
Picture this: An app for blind photographers
Grad student Dustin Adams, who works in UC Santa Cruz's Interactive Systems for Individuals with Special Needs lab, designed a tool to recognize and describe photos.
- September 29, 2015
Privacy in the age of big data to be focus of symposium
For the inaugural event, DataLex will feature data scientists, policymakers, legal scholars, and privacy advocates to collectively consider important issues.
- September 25, 2015
Chip-based technology enables reliable direct detection of Ebola virus
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed chip-based technology to detect Ebola and other viral pathogens.
- September 24, 2015
New senate faculty members build campus strengths
From environmental sociology to game design, UC Santa Cruz professors are studying problems aimed at improving the world in which we live.
- September 22, 2015
Research Review Day on October 14 highlights advances at the Baskin School of Engineering
Data science for social good, technology management, and nanopores are featured topics at annual Research Review Day.
- September 15, 2015
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute partners with Microsoft to accelerate biomedical research
The Microsoft partnership provides the Genomics Institute with access to new compute, data storage, and analysis capabilities.
- August 26, 2015
New managing director brings business and scientific expertise to the Genomics Institute
Ravi Jain will oversee the institute's strategic planning, business development, and operations, among other responsibilities.
- August 20, 2015
Seagate gift supports UC Santa Cruz research on genomic data storage
Donation includes 2.5 petabytes of storage for studying large-scale data storage challenges in genomics and other areas
- August 04, 2015
Engineering opportunity
Tackling problems with sheer ingenuity, creativity, and teamwork is part of the fun at the weeklong Girls In Engineering program at UC Santa Cruz.
- August 03, 2015
California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine funds UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project
The state initiative is providing $1.2 million for the Genomics Institute's California Kids Cancer Comparison project.
- August 03, 2015
New method reveals hidden population of regulatory molecules in cells
UC Santa Cruz researchers have revealed a previously undetected population of small RNA molecules involved in cell regulation
- July 22, 2015
Keck Foundation awards UC Santa Cruz $2 million for human genome variation project
The Human Genome Variation Map being developed by the UCSC Genomics Institute will be a valuable new resource for medical researchers.
- July 16, 2015
Graduate student earns life sciences fellowship
UC Santa Cruz graduate student Jessica Perez-Cunningham was selected to receive a fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's newly expanded Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study Program.
- July 08, 2015
UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project receives $250,000 to fight high-risk neuroblastoma
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation has awarded the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute a $250,000 grant for pediatric cancer research.
- June 23, 2015
UCSC and SRI release new game for DARPA crowd-sourced software verification program
Sophisticated gamers can help improve security of the country's critical software by playing a new game created by UC Santa Cruz researchers.
- June 23, 2015
UC Santa Cruz partners with UC Merced in nanotechnology center
Nanotechnology researchers at UC Santa Cruz are partners in a new center for nanomaterials research funded by NASA and based at UC Merced.
- June 22, 2015
UC Santa Cruz team introduces new web-based tools for finding videogames
The proliferation of videogames has created a "discoverability" problem for game enthusiasts and others, but help is now just a click away.
- June 03, 2015
Student entrepreneurs pitch business ideas at annual Silicon Valley event
The Center for Entrepreneurship held its third annual Business Design Showcase on Saturday, May 30, at the UCSC Silicon Valley Center.
- May 21, 2015
UC Santa Cruz plans Center of Excellence in Data Science Research
The Data, Discovery, and Decisions (D3) center aims to foster collaboration between industry and academia.
- May 18, 2015
Community effort provides new 'gold standard' for genomic data analysis
UC Santa Cruz researchers contributed to a comprehensive assessment of methods for identifying mutations in cancer genomes.
- May 18, 2015
Gifts from alum Sage Weil provide $3 million for open source research at UC Santa Cruz
Alumnus Sage Weil has established an endowed chair and provided an additional $2 million for research in open source software.
- May 13, 2015
Persistence yields progress in AIDS vaccine research at UC Santa Cruz
Veteran vaccine researcher Phil Berman has developed a new approach based on an old vaccine and recent advances in HIV immunology
- May 06, 2015
'CAVE Lab' offers immersive virtual reality tools for research and teaching
A new multi-disciplinary facility featuring interactive 3-D visualization technology is available to researchers across campus.
- April 27, 2015
Graduate students present research projects at annual symposium
The 11th Annual Graduate Research Symposium on April 24 featured graduate student researchers from across the divisions.
- March 24, 2015
UC Santa Cruz ranked among top graduate schools for game design
Princeton Review's 2015 list of the top 25 graduate schools to study game design features UC Santa Cruz at number 8.
- March 19, 2015
UC Santa Cruz to host UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium
The Bioengineering Symposium will bring together faculty, researchers, and students from all ten UC campuses.
- March 17, 2015
Nanopipette technique earns prize in NIH 'Follow that Cell' challenge
A proposal by UC Santa Cruz biomolecular engineer Nader Pourmand was one of five prize winners in an NIH challenge competition
- February 10, 2015
Genomics Institute director David Haussler awarded prestigious Dan David Prize
Haussler will share a $1 million prize with two other leaders in bioinformatics.
- February 05, 2015
Institute of Arts and Sciences to host first LASER talk of the year
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present its first “LASER” talk of 2015 on Tuesday, February 10, at the Digital Arts Research Center.
- January 28, 2015
Game designer Brenda Romero honored with Game Developers Choice Award
Romero, director of the UC Santa Cruz Games and Playable Media master's program, will receive the GDCA Ambassador Award
- January 22, 2015
Campus, city take home prestigious governor's award
In 2011, the City and UCSC created the GreenWharf program to foster the development and incorporation of innovative technology into the structure and operations at the Santa Cruz Wharf.
- January 13, 2015
UC Santa Cruz to lead effort to build a new map of human genetic variation
The Simons Foundation awarded UCSC up to $1 million to develop a comprehensive Human Genome Variation Map for scientific and medical research
