Bernt Wahl, Search, Public Health and Real Estate, Wednesday, February 10, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 506

Andreas Tobler, Ph.D, Epigenetic Applications on the SOLiD system, Thursday, February 11, 12:00 pm, Physical Science Building Room 240

Prof. Michael Neff, UCDavis, Animating the Gesture Style of Particular Individuals, Friday, February 12, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 599

Micro-robots to help recovery from natural disasters, and creating games to engage people with serious issues, Friday, February 12, 4:00 pm, Online

Ting Xu, Assemble Styrofoam for Nanodevices, Wednesday, February 17, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 506

Peter Meehan, KoAnn Skrzyniarz, Joshua Levine & Sandy Skees, Sustainability and Social Innovation: Doing Well by Doing Good, Thursday, February 18, 7:00 pm, Kuumbwa Jazz Center in downtown Santa Cruz

Prof. Phil Marcus - Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley, The Roles of Vortices and Waves in the Fluid and Particle Dynamics of Planet and Star Formation, Monday, February 22, 4:00 pm, Engineering 2 Building, room 180

Josh Bloom, Abstracting Traditional Roles in Scientific Discovery and Inference: Application to Real-Time Astronomy, Wednesday, February 24, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 506

UCSC Scholarship Benefit Dinner raises more than $160,000 to support students

More than 300 people turned out for the seventh annual UC Santa Cruz Scholarship Benefit Dinner that took place Saturday night at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose.  More

New UCSC training program fosters ethics and justice discourse in science and engineering

This spring, the University of California, Santa Cruz, will launch a unique graduate-level training program funded by a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to cross-train scientists and engineers in humanities and social sciences, and vice versa.  More

7th annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner to support UCSC students--Feb. 6 at Tech Museum in San Jose

UC Santa Cruz will host its seventh annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner on Saturday, February 6, at the Tech Museum in San Jose.  More

Baskin School of Engineering will showcase groundbreaking research on Thursday, October 22

Groundbreaking research being pursued at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz will be showcased at the school's Research Review Day on Thursday, October 22. The event will include faculty research presentations and graduate student posters, providing a broad overview of exciting research in areas such as bioengineering, nanotechnology, software service engineering, cyber-infrastructure, biostatistics, and systems design.  More

An interview with engineering dean Arthur Ramirez

Arthur Ramirez, dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, came to UCSC from Bell Labs, a legendary center for science and engineering. He brings a true passion for using fundamental and applied research to solve real-world problems. In the interview that follows, he discusses the importance of developing deeper partnerships in Silicon Valley, and he describes the qualities that make the Baskin School of Engineering uniquely positioned to contribute to the rapidly changing technologies of the 21st century.   More

Five faculty members win 2009 NSF CAREER awards

Five UC Santa Cruz faculty members have won prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2009. Three of the recipients are faculty in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering: William Dunbar, assistant professor of computer engineering; Pascale Garaud, assistant professor of applied mathematics and statistics; and Joshua Stuart, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering. The others are Yat Li, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics, both in the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.  More

3rd annual UCSC 'Founders Day' gala dinner at Cocoanut Grove to honor five exceptional individuals

UC Santa Cruz will host its third annual Founders Day gala dinner at the Cocoanut Grove on Friday, October 23, beginning at 6:30 p.m.  More

Tracy Larrabee appointed Associate Vice Provost for Silicon Valley Initiatives

Computer Engineering Professor Tracy Larrabee of the Baskin School of Engineering will oversee UCSC's research collaborations at the Silicon Valley Center, building connections among Santa Cruz faculty, Silicon Valley companies, and NASA researchers.  More