Engineering
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Dueling robots draw crowd to UC Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel and KSBW TV covered the "Slug Trek" public robotics demonstration featuring a competition between robots built by students in computer engineer Gabe Elkaim's Mechtronics class.
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UC Santa Cruz Cancer Genomics Hub Wins CENIC’s 2013 Innovations in Networking Award for High-Performance Research Applications
The CENIC Innovations in Networking Award for UCSC's Cancer Genomics Hub was covered by SYS-CON Media, Education Technology, Green Technology World, Smart Grid, Virtual Technology Magazine, CNS, Drug Discovery and Development, and other online news sites.
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Shakespeare's sonnets (and more) stored in DNA files
Genomics expert David Haussler was quoted in a story on MSNBC.com about researchers who developed a way to encode music and text files into DNA molecules. The story also ran on Yahoo! News, Live Science, TechNewsDaily, and other news sites.
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Project aims to develop systems for human-robot collaboration
The Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News ran a story about computer engineer Jacob Rosen's research on robotic surgery and human-robot collaboration.
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Why data is the key to better medicine–and maybe a cure for cancer
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was featured in a GigaOm article about applications of "big data" in medicine. The Washington Post also ran the story.
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UC Santa Cruz scientists part of 'Dream Team'
Biomolecular engineers Josh Stuart and David Haussler were featured in a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News about their work on a cancer research "Dream Team" funded by Stand Up To Cancer.