Engineering
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Partnership with Oxford Nanopore Technologies will support development of RNA liquid biopsy for cancer early detection
The technology screens for cancer, and even abnormal “precancerous” cells, using a simple blood draw.
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Stem cell education platform strengthens students’ identity as scientists
Hispanic and first-generation college students are particularly positively impacted by the Braingeneers group’s technology
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A ripple effect of support: Alumna Bev Crair uplifts student success
Alumna Bev Crair (Stevenson ’83, computer science and mathematics) actively supports UC Santa Cruz philanthropically and currently serves as the co-chair for the university’s comprehensive fundraising campaign, Inspiring Change.
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Celebrating the Class of 2026
UC Santa Cruz is highlighting some of the amazing students in the Class of 2026. Video vignettes will be published throughout the week.
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Students create agentic AI at first UC Santa Cruz hackathon with NVIDIA, ASUS
Dedicated students spent 24 hours hacking, and had the opportunity to use cutting-edge AI hardware brought to UC Santa Cruz for the event.
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The frontier of brain science: AI and organoid research takes center stage in Silicon Valley
At a meeting of minds, researchers discussed a platform that could finally reveal the intimate workings of the human brain, and what happens if we succeed.
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UCSC team places second in Embedded Capture the Flag cybersecurity competition
The result showcases the campus’s excellence among the cybersecurity community.
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After leading 10 years of growth, Alexander L. Wolf steps down as Dean of Baskin Engineering
Wolf guided the school through a period of major growth among students, faculty, and research funding
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Land-based origins of life explored in UCSC-led special issue of ‘Astrobiology’
The scientists hypothesize that an entire landscape might be implicated in life’s beginning
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UCSC faculty receive Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards
The awards reflect a renewed systemwide investment in early-career faculty at a time of increasing pressure on research funding. In total, 54 faculty were selected.
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UC Santa Cruz celebrates 2025 Chancellor’s Innovation Impact Award recipients
The recipients include Richard E. Green, Lifetime Achievement Award; Mike Beck, Innovator of the Year; NeuroSWARM3, developed by the Yanik Lab led by Ahmet A. Yanik, Translation of the Year; and Bud Colligan, Community Changemaker.