Engineering
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UCSC duo designs children’s speech therapy game
Computer engineers Sri Kurniawan and Zak Rubin are featured in a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about their work on an animated computer game that provides speech therapy for children who have had cleft palate surgery.
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Kryder's law craps out: Race to uber-cheap storage is over
Research on trends in data storage by computer science graduate student Preeti Gupta was quoted in an article about the cost of data storage in The Register (U.K.).
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A New Department Marks the Rise of a Discipline: ‘Computational Media’
Computer scientists Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas were featured in a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the new Department of Computational Media, which was also covered in Technology News and TMCnet.
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UCSC genomics center awarded $11 million NIH grant
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was quoted in coverage of NIH funding for the new Center for Big Data in Translational Genomics in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, Los Angeles Times, BioSpace, PhysOrg, and other media outlets.
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UCSC researchers create Ebola genome browser
KION 46 produced a piece on the Ebola genome browser created by the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. The Santa Cruz Sentinel followed with a story of its own.
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UCSC’s gaming program is nurturing new generations of game developers
Computer scientist Jim Whitehead was quoted in a Silicon Valley Business Journal article about UCSC's programs in computer game design.
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Radical New DNA Sequencer Finally Gets into Researchers’ Hands
Biomolecular engineers David Deamer and Mark Akeson and their work on nanopore sequencing are featured in a Technology Review article about the MinION nanopore sequencer introduced by U.K. company Oxford Nanopore.
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UC Santa Cruz undergrads in iGem competition
A team of UCSC undergraduates working on a synthetic biology project were featured on KSBW TV.
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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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Cabrillo engineering camp inspires middle school students
Charlie McDowell, dean of undergraduate affairs for the Baskin School of Engineering, was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about the Girls in Engineering program.
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New cancer classification system shows promise as lifesaver
Biomolecular engineer Josh Stuart was featured in coverage of the pan-cancer study which revealed a new way to classify cancers, including stories in the San Francisco Chronicle (lead story on the front page), Los Angeles Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Fresno Bee, MedScape, Bio-IT, BioSpace, Health Canal, Science Daily, Delhi Daily News, and other media outlets.
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UCSC engineering lab awarded $2.28M grant
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about biomolecular engineer Mark Akeson's research group, which received a major grant for work on a nanopore device for DNA sequencing.