Engineering
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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…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UC Santa Cruz and community colleges will launch new program for engineering students with a reception at NASA Ames on May 5
The Collaborative for Higher Education, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Foothill-De Anza Community College District will hold a reception to celebrate the launch of their new program to help students prepare for careers in engineering. Reporters are invited to attend this event Funded by a $2 million grant from the National Science…
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Haussler honored by computer science group as an innovator who changed the scientific world
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named David Haussler, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz and director of UCSC’s Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), a corecipient of the 2003 Allen Newell Award. Haussler was recognized along with UCLA computer scientist Judea Pearl for separate groundbreaking contributions that have changed the…
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$2 million grant funds joint effort by UCSC and Silicon Valley community colleges to support engineering students
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has joined with two prominent Silicon Valley community colleges–Foothill College and De Anza College–to launch a new program that will help students prepare for careers in engineering. Funded by a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Developing Effective Engineering Pathways (DEEP) program gives community college…
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Major grant supports research on next-generation Internet technology
While fiberoptic cables carry data at the speed of light over the Internet backbone, the equipment that directs Internet traffic–the switches and routers that get data to the right places–still requires inefficient conversions of optical signals to electrical signals and back again. Keeping data in the optical domain during routing and packet switching would remove…
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UCSC forms new Department of Biomolecular Engineering
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has established a new Department of Biomolecular Engineering within the Baskin School of Engineering. The department is the new home for UCSC’s renowned programs in bioinformatics, and includes faculty and researchers with interests in nanotechnology, protein engineering, and DNA microarrays (also known as “gene chips”). The department’s unique interdisciplinary…
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$1 million gift to scholarship fund will support women in engineering at UCSC
Women studying engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be the beneficiaries of a $1 million contribution to the Amy Beth Snader Memorial Scholarship Fund from the estate of Barbara Snader. The scholarship fund was established in 1997 in memory of Barbara Snader’s daughter, Amy, a UCSC alumna who died in a hiking…