Engineering
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UCSC alum designs affordable desktop digital router
Computer engineering professor Gabe Elkaim is quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about UCSC alumni Bar Smith and Tom Beckett who have developed an affordable desktop CNC router and started a company to market it.
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Sammy Awards Recognize Student-Designed Video Games
Santa Cruz Tech Beat covered the 4th annual Sammy Awards, the culmination of UCSC game design course sequence.
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UCSC Games and Playable Media Programs take it to the Next Level
Santa Cruz Tech Beat ran a feature story about the Center for Games and Playable Media and the various degree programs offered in computer game design at UCSC.
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Hack UCSC: A Step in the Right Direction
The Hack UCSC hackathon competition was covered in Santa Cruz Tech Beat, Santa Cruz Weekly, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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Students compete, learn at UC Santa Cruz engineering competition
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about the 400 high school and middle school students who came to UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering March 1 for the annual Math Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) competition.
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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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UCSC students design video game aimed at making astrophysics fun
Computer science graduate students Kate Compton and April Grow, and astrophysicist Stan Woosley, were featured in a San Jose Mercury News story about a game called Stellar based on the astrophysics of stars. The story also ran in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, and other newspapers throughout the state.
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Big Data
A cover story on "big data" in the Good Times weekly features UCSC experts David Haussler and Ethan Miller.
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UCSC Team Adds TARGET Data to CGHub, Prepares to Accommodate CGCI Project
Bioinformatics experts David Haussler and Linda Rosewood were quoted in stories about new features in UCSC's Cancer Genomics Hub, a data portal used by cancer researchers throughout the country, including coverage from GenomeWeb, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Inside Bay Area, BioSpace, MedicalXpress, Health Canal, Science Daily, and Digital Me.
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Maverix Biomics, co-founded by UCSC professor, announces funding
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about Maverix Biomics, a biotech startup cofounded by biomolecular engineer Todd Lowe. It was also covered in biotech newsletter BioInform.
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UCSC researcher leads cancer's digital revolution
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a profile of bioinformatics expert and cancer researcher David Haussler. The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times.
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A star is born: the updated Human Reference Genome
A Nature story about the release of a more complete version of the human genome reference sequence cites the work of a UCSC team led by Karen Miga and Jim Kent to produce the centromere sequences.