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

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

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

CITRIS / BSAC Workshop Sensors for Power Distribution: Operation, Fault Detection, and Maintenance, Tuesday, March 9, 8:00 am, Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

Student competition at CITRIS: $30K in prizes (LAST DAY!), Friday, March 19, 12:00 pm,

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

Grad program offers opportunities in biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics

The Department of Biomolecular Engineering in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering has changed the name of its M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs from Bioinformatics to Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics.   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 Engineering in the News: Three Professor Profiled

Baskin Engineering professors Wentai Liu, Michael Mateas, and Joshua Stuart are profiled as "The Visionary", "The Player", and "The Dream Team" for their work on the artificial retina project, intelligent game design, and the UCSC cancer genome browser.   More

UCSC Genome Browser lauched for mobiles

Researchers at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research have release an iPhone-based version of the UCSC Genome Browser.  The GenomePad application is available for free download and connects to servers at the Baskin School of Engineering.   More

Baskin Engineering in the News: Ed Green highlighted by Genome Technology

New professor of biomolecular engineering Ed Green is the first profiled researcher in  Genome Technology's annual "PIs of Tomorrow" issue.  Dr. Green was a leader in the sequencing and understanding of the Neandertal genome.  His talk last year at UCSC drew a diverse audience from engineering, the sciences, anthropology, and philosophy.  He joins the Baskin School of Engineering's Department of Biomolecular Engineering in January 2010.  More

Scientists propose a "genome zoo" of 10,000 vertebrate species

In the most comprehensive study of animal evolution ever attempted, an international consortium of scientists plans to assemble a genomic zoo--a collection of DNA sequences for 10,000 vertebrate species, approximately one for every vertebrate genus.  More