Engineering
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Engineering Hope: UCSC bioelectronics engineer designs prostheses that promise to change lives
Wentai Liu is an electronics wizard whose work is enabling the development of devices once found only in the realm of science fiction–miniaturized electronic implants to restore vision, movement, and other biological functions lost to disease or injury.
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UC Santa Cruz engineering students win national robotics competition
A team of four students from UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering won the first-place trophy in a national student robotics competition for their design of a solar-powered robot that can climb up a vertical ribbon carrying a payload.
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National engineering honor society installs chapter at UC Santa Cruz
The Engineering Honor Society at UC Santa Cruz was officially installed as the California Alpha Delta Chapter of Tau Beta Pi in a ceremony held on Saturday, March 8, at UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering.
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UCSC project aims to provide a virtual speech therapist via cell phone
UCSC researchers have received funding from Microsoft Research to develop a virtual speech therapist, accessible on a cell phone, to aid stroke survivors in Malaysia.
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Nobuhiko Kobayashi wins Best Paper Award from International Association of Engineers
A research paper by Nobuhiko Kobayashi, an associate professor of electrical engineering, was selected for the Best Paper Award of the International Conference on Chemical Engineering 2007.
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Computer security expert Martín Abadi garners Outstanding Innovation Award
Martín Abadi, professor of computer science, has received the SIGSAC Outstanding Innovations Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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Losses of long-established genes contributed to human evolution, scientists find
The evolution of new genes is not the only way for a species to change. UCSC scientists have now carried out the first systematic computational analysis to identify long-established genes that were lost during human evolution.
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UCSC faculty receive $4.5 million in new grants for stem cell research
Two UCSC faculty members have received major grants totalling $4.5 million for stem cell research from the California Insitute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).
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Ancient retroviruses spurred evolution of gene regulatory networks in primates
Ancient retroviruses helped a gene called p53 become an important “master gene regulator” in primates, according to a new study.
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Avant-garde video-game blog earns art exhibition at UC Irvine’s Beall Center
UCSC computer scientist Michael Mateas presents four works of artificial intelligence and empathy at a new art exhibit.
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HP’s Stanley Williams to discuss nanoscale computing at UCSC’s Silicon Valley Center on October 25
R. Stanley Williams, a senior fellow at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and founding director of HP’s Quantum Science Research group, will discuss nanoscale computing in a free public lecture on Thursday, October 25.
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UCSC awarded $5 million grant for genome research
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) announced a $5 million grant to UCSC as part of a four-year project to build a “parts list” of biologically functional elements in the human genome.