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Campus team a finalist in Amazon’s Alexa challenge
UC Santa Cruz’s Team Athena is one of five teams remaining in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge from a field of 375 applicants from around the world.
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Girls Who Code program seeks to increase retention of women in tech
When the nonprofit Girls Who Code started a new “College Loops” program last year, students at UC Santa Cruz were quick to establish a branch.
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Student team creates Stumpjumper videogame for Specialized bicycle company
‘Stumpjumper: The Videogame’, developed by a team of UCSC game design students, was released October 11.
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Sammy Showcase features VR and video games from UCSC game design students
The public is invited to a fun, family-friendly game festival on Saturday, June 9, at the UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus in Santa Clara.
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Structure of human astrovirus could lead to antiviral therapies, vaccines
Research led by structural biologist Rebecca DuBois is laying the foundation for new antiviral therapies and vaccines for human astroviruses.
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Student robotics competition on Dec. 12 features “Game of Thrones” theme
Small autonomous robots built by UC Santa Cruz engineering students will face off in “Game of Drones” competition.
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Student robotics competition on March 13 features Star Trek theme
Robotic “starships” built by UCSC engineering students will face off in a free public demonstration on Wednesday, March 13.
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Overcoming the odds: Student learned English by playing video games
The son of migrant workers, Juan Morales’s path to UC Santa Cruz was anything but typical.
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Microscopes borrow tricks from astronomy to see deep into living tissues
UCSC researchers are developing new microscope technologies to enable biologists to see deep within living tissues.
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Undergrad’s “crazy idea” leads to a promising biotech device
In Nader Pourmand’s bioinstrumentation class, students are encouraged to come up with their own ideas for new biotechnology devices and applications. Sometimes, their “crazy ideas” turn into important research projects.
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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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UC Santa Cruz engineering students develop a coral reef monitoring system
Five senior engineering students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are trying to push the limits of low-power wireless transmission to facilitate the monitoring of remote natural environments. The apparatus they are building will track conditions on coral reefs in distant locations and beam information back in real time to a land-based station. The…