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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 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
November 05, 2015
How rugby arrived—unexpectedly—at UC Santa Cruz
Begun in the late 1960s, rugby teams remain a force on campus, and committed alumni have launched a new tradition of an annual rugby reunion
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 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.
September 08, 2015
Gift to UC Santa Cruz funds new presidential chair for physics of information
Endowed chair established by Federico Faggin, a physicist who developed the first commercial microprocessor.
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
July 01, 2015
UC Santa Cruz develops innovative online courses available to all UC students
UC Santa Cruz faculty are venturing into the brave new world of online education.
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 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
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 07, 2015
Setting up for success
The men's volleyball coach has taken the emphasis off wins and losses, encouraging players to build character by "scoring points" in the classroom, applying for jobs, and volunteering.
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.
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