Engineering
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Steelhead study earns best paper award from American Fisheries Society
The American Fisheries Society has selected a paper on steelhead trout by UCSC researcher William Satterthwaite as the best publication for 2009.
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UCSC hosts International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics
UCSC has launched a new summer institute that brings together scientists and students from a broad range of backgrounds to study current problems in theoretical astrophysics.
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Grad program offers opportunities in biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics
The biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics program offers expanded opportunities for graduate research.
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Engineers Milanfar and Vesecky named 2010 IEEE Fellows
Two professors of electrical engineering have been named Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Three UCSC professors elected 2009 AAAS Fellows
Three professors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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New search technique for images and videos has broad applications
Engineers have developed a new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize what it “sees” in an image or video.
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Nobuhiko Kobayashi named co-director of Advanced Studies Laboratory
Nobuhiko Kobayashi, associate professor of electrical engineering, has been appointed co-director of the Advanced Studies Laboratory, a collaborative research facility jointly administered by UCSC and the NASA Ames Research Center.
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Scientists propose a “genome zoo” of 10,000 vertebrate species
In the most comprehensive study of animal evolution ever attempted, an international consortium of scientists plans to assemble a collection of DNA sequences for 10,000 vertebrate species.



