Engineering
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Tech industry pioneer Lee S. Ting will speak at UCSC Foundation Forum on Friday, November 5
Lee S. Ting, advisory director at W. R. Hambrecht and former vice president and managing director of geographic operations at Hewlett-Packard, will speak at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Friday, November 5. Ting will speak on “Innovation Leadership in the Global Economy” for the fall UCSC Foundation Forum at 4:30 p.m. in the…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Media tours and interviews available prior to dedication ceremonies for Engineering 2 Building
The Engineering 2 Building on the UC Santa Cruz campus will be dedicated on the afternoon of Friday, November 5, with ceremonies including UC President Robert C. Dynes and State Senator Bruce McPherson starting at 3 p.m. Tours of the building and interview opportunities for reporters have been scheduled for earlier in the day. When:…
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Genome researchers publish analysis of finished human genome sequence, plan next steps to figure out what it all means
A pair of papers published this week in the two leading scientific journals mark the completion of the Human Genome Project and the start of a new project to find all of the functional elements in human DNA. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are involved in both projects. In the October 21…
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Researchers guide light through liquids and gases on a chip, a major step forward for optical sensing technology
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have reported the first demonstration of integrated optical waveguides with liquid cores, a technology that enables light propagation through small volumes of liquids on a chip. The new technology has a wide range of potential applications, including chemical and biological sensors with single-molecule sensitivity. “It is an…
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UCSC researchers join in new partnership to speed development of an ‘artificial retina’ to restore sight
CHICAGO, IL–In an effort to speed the design and development of an artificial retina that could potentially help millions of people blinded by retinal diseases, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced today that five Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, a private company, and three universities–including UC Santa Cruz–have signed agreements to form a research…
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UCSC builds on landmark NASA contract to expand UC presence in Silicon Valley
With over 100 employees and funding for current research tasks at about $18 million, the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) at Moffett Field has quickly become a dynamic center of activity for the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Managed by UC Santa Cruz in partnership with NASA Ames Research…
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NIH training grants provide more than $1.5 million to support graduate students at UCSC
Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are receiving increased support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through training grants to two campus departments. The prestigious NIH training grants provide support for graduate students in specified areas of biomedical research. The agency has awarded a new NIH training grant in bioinformatics to…
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Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen to address 2004 graduates at UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering commencement; other UCSC celebrations begin on Thursday
Bruce Chizen, president and CEO of Adobe Systems, Incorporated, will be the keynote speaker this year at the commencement exercises for UC Santa Cruz’s Baskin School of Engineering. The event will take place on Sunday, June 13, at 3:30 p.m. at the Lower West Field, Oakes College, on the UCSC campus. In addition to the…
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NASA Ames research director G. Scott Hubbard to speak at UCSC
NASA Ames Research Center Director G. Scott Hubbard, who was the first NASA Mars program director and served as the sole NASA representative on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, will speak at UC Santa Cruz on June 3. Hubbard will speak on “Space Exploration: The Moon and Mars–A Vision of the Future,” for the spring…
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Surprising ‘ultra-conserved’ regions discovered in human genome
Researchers comparing the human genome with the genomes of other species have discovered a surprising number of matching DNA sequences in a variety of vertebrate species, including the mouse, rat, dog, and chicken. The fact that these sequences have remained unchanged over long periods of evolutionary history indicates that they are biologically important, but for…