Engineering
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Sun Microsystems creates OpenSPARC Center of Excellence at UCSC
Sun Microsystems has established a Center of Excellence at UCSC that will focus on the OpenSPARC initiative, a true “open-source” approach to high-speed microprocessor technology.
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Sloan Research Fellowships awarded to three UC Santa Cruz faculty
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has selected three UCSC faculty members to receive 2007 Sloan Research Fellowships.
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$1 million gift from Jack Baskin establishes endowed chairs in engineering and humanities at UCSC
Philanthropist Jack Baskin has continued his remarkable record of support for the University of California, Santa Cruz, with two $500,000 gifts establishing endowed chairs, one in the Humanities Division that honors his wife, Peggy Downes Baskin, and anot
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UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering celebrates 10 years of innovation
The Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is celebrating its 10th anniversary and its emergence as a vibrant and innovative center for research and education.
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UCSC offers new major in bioengineering
UCSC has approved a new major in bioengineering, an interdisciplinary program focusing on the applications of engineering to medicine and the biological sciences.
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New course teaches UCSC students about disability
UCSC is offering a new general education course on universal access and assistive technology, enabling students from all majors to learn more about disability and the issues that surround it.
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UCSC recognized for high percentage of engineering master’s degrees awarded to women
A survey of master’s degrees awarded by U.S. engineering schools shows that UC Santa Cruz ranks third in the percentage of degrees awarded to women.
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UCSC engineering dean Steve Kang awarded Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award
The Asian Pacific Fund today announced the recipients of its first annual Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Awards, recognizing Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang, dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Belle W. Y. W
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New statistical approach could improve hospital care for sick newborns
The movement to computerize patient records in a growing number of hospitals is paving the way for the use of sophisticated statistical methods to assist doctors’ decision making. The National Institutes of Health has provided $1.35 million to a team of researchers working to develop new statistical approaches that could dramatically improve the care for…
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ARCS Foundation scholarships support ten UCSC graduate students
Ten UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $100,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation for the 2006-07 academic year. The Northern California chapter of the ARCS Foundation is the most generous provider of annual private awards to the UCSC campus and has provided more than $1…
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NIH award supports research on nanopore DNA sequencer
William Dunbar, an assistant professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has received a career development award from the National Institutes of Health. The Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award is designed to encourage researchers with backgrounds in quantitative science and engineering to focus on questions relating to health and disease. William Dunbar Dunbar,…
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Researchers tackle problem of data storage for next-generation supercomputers
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a five-year, $11 million grant to researchers at three universities and five national laboratories to find new ways of managing the torrent of data that will be produced by the coming generation of supercomputers. The Petascale Data Storage Institute includes researchers at the University of California, Santa…