Engineering
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UCSC opens new virtual reality lab
Computational media professors Sri Kurniawan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin were quoted in coverage of the new CAVE Lab for virtual reality research projects, including stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Santa Cruz Tech Beat.
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Pint-sized DNA sequencer impresses first users
Biomolecular engineer David Deamer was quoted in a Nature story about the MinION portable DNA sequencer.
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Internet of DNA
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was featured in an article in the MIT Technology Review about his work with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health.
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UCSC Genomics Institute receives $1 million grant
Biomolecular engineer Benedict Paten was featured in coverage of the Human Genome Variation Map project, including stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Medical Xpress, Genome Web, BioSpace, ClinicaSpace, and others.
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A clash of codes: Hack UCSC 2015
Coverage of the 2015 Hack UCSC hackathon included stories from Huffington Post, Santa Cruz Tech Beat, and Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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Nanopore Sequencing Is Here to Stay
Biomolecular engineers David Deamer and Mark Akeson are featured in a story about nanopore sequencing in Bio-IT World.
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Geneticists Begin Tests of an Internet for DNA
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler is featured in a story in MIT Technology Review about efforts by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health to build the infrastructure for sharing genomic data.
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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.