Electrical & Computer Engineering
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UC Santa Cruz scientists create surfboard foam from shrimp shells
Engineers Marco Rolandi and John Felts were featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about their work on a new material derived from shrimp shells for making surfboards.
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UC Santa Cruz engineers work with Samsung on promising new memory technology
Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt was featured in stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and TechWire about his lab's collaboration with Samsung on new memory technology.
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Laboratory-on-a-chip technique simplifies detection of cancer DNA biomarkers
Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt's research on an optofluidic platform for detection of cancer biomarkers was featured in stories on PhysOrg, Science Newsline, Nanowerk, Science Daily, and other media outlets.
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New optofluidic platform features tunable optics and novel 'lightvalves'
Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt was quoted in stories about his optofluidics research in PhysOrg, Nanotechnology Now, Optoelectronics News, and other media outlets.
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Optofluidic systems detect Ebola, flu viruses
Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt was quoted in an article in Photonics Media about his research on optofluidic technology for virus detection.
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On-chip optical sensing technique used to detect multiple flu strains
Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt's work on novel optical biosensor technology was covered in R&D Magazine, Medical News Today, Bionity, Health Canal, and other outlets.
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A Chip-Based System for Detecting Ebola
Coverage of electrical engineer Holger Schmidt's development of chip-based technology for Ebola detection includes stories in Optics & Photonics News, CNET, Yahoo, Gizmodo, Medical News Today, Santa Cruz Tech Beat, Biotechnology News, Nanotech Now, Times of India, and other media outlets.
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Chip-based platform could simplify measurements of single molecules
Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt was quoted in coverage of his lab's optofluidics research in R&D magazine, BioMedicine, Medical Design Technology, Science Daily, PhysOrg, Nanowerk, Science Codex, and others.
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Robotic Surgery Opens Up
Medical robotics expert Jacob Rosen is featured in a Scientific American article about his group's open-source Raven II robotic surgery system.
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Google, Amazon making sci-fi real with robots, drones
Robotics expert Jacob Rosen was quoted in a story from the German Press Agency (DPA) Business Line about Google's recent acquisition of robotics companies.
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UC Santa Cruz droid robots battling tonight in Slugs vs. Bugs
KSBW-TV covered the student robotics competition, the culmination of computer engineer Gabe Elkaim's Mechatronics class.
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New single virus detection technique yields faster diagnosis
Media coverage of a new virus detection technique developed by electrical engineer Holger Schmidt included stories from R&D Magazine, Bloomberg Business Week, Red Orbit, Infection Control Today, Photonics Online, Innovations Report, Drug Discovery & Development, InfoTech News, StreetInsider, and Reuters.