Engineering
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ACE Program marks 30 years of academic support for STEM students
Academic Excellence Program’s 30th Anniversary celebration and reunion will be held during Alumni Weekend 2016.
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Stem cell researcher receives American Society of Hematology Scholar Award
The ASH has awarded a $100,000 research fellowship to postdoctoral researcher Jana Krietsch.
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Film, panel to focus on tech industry’s diversity shortcomings
Sponsors hope that girls in middle school, young women, and underrepresented groups who see the movie will be inspired by the role models in the profession and see a future for themselves in the industry.
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UCSC hires game designer Erin Swink as creative director of master’s program
Independent game developer Erin Robinson Swink will be creative director of the master’s program in games and playable media
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Computer scientist Wang-Chiew Tan named ACM Fellow
Tan, a professor of computer science, was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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The year in review at UC Santa Cruz
At UC Santa Cruz, 2015 was a year celebrating our 50th anniversary by advancing knowledge, challenging the status quo, and taking risks. And the campus capped it all off with a big top celebration.
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UC Santa Cruz hosts international summer program on exoplanetary atmospheres
The 2016 Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics will focus on ‘Exoplanetary Atmospheres.’
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Campus fills eight UC Presidential chairs in support of research mission
The eight new chairs – in everything from screenwriting to open-source software – bring the campus total to 30.
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Big ideas
From saving falcons to peering into the universe, sequencing the human genome, and putting organic food on American tables, UC Santa Cruz has become known as the small university where big things happen.
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New on-chip optical sensing technique used to detect multiple flu strains
Researchers developed a new way to do diagnostic assays for multiple strains of flu virus on a small, dedicated chip.
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Picture this: An app for blind photographers
Grad student Dustin Adams, who works in UC Santa Cruz’s Interactive Systems for Individuals with Special Needs lab, designed a tool to recognize and describe photos.
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Privacy in the age of big data to be focus of symposium
For the inaugural event, DataLex will feature data scientists, policymakers, legal scholars, and privacy advocates to collectively consider important issues.