Engineering
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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.
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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.