UC Santa Cruz scientists Carol Greider and Daniel Kim to share innovative research using nanopore sequencing at London Calling 2024

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Professional photo of Carol Greider and Daniel Kim side by side

London Calling, a conference showcasing the latest research in nanopore sequencing technology, celebrates its 10th anniversary in May and will feature UC Santa Cruz professor and Nobel Laureate Carol Greider and Assistant Professor Daniel Kim as plenary presenters.

CHI 2024 UCSC Contribution

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CHI 2024, Surfing the World, 11-16 May 2024

The Department of Computational Media at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz will contribute a diverse set of publications to CHI 2024, the flagship annual conference for Human-Computer Interaction and Design.  UCSC Computational Media researchers made a significant impact at CHI 2024. They authored 12 full papers, including a Best Paper Award … Read more

Exploring Generative AI possibilities with Magy Seif El-Nasr, UC Santa Cruz Computational Media Chair

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Portrait of Magy Seif El-Nasr

Many conversations about generative artificial intelligence in higher education are about academic integrity and threats to learning. Those issues are serious and challenging. But there is a generative side to generative AI, and some faculty, like Magy Seif El-Nasr, Professor and Department Chair of Computational Media, are helping both students and their fellow educators explore … Read more

$7.5M MURI grant will support research on tensor networks for high-dimensional computing

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Portrait of Daniele Venturi smiling outside the Baskin engineering building.

Professor of Applied Mathematics Daniele Venturi is part of a project team recently awarded a five-year, $7.5 million from the Department of Defense’s (DoD) highly competitive Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program. The project seeks to develop a new mathematical framework for the modeling and simulation of high-dimensional partial differential equations, which are relevant to … Read more

PBS’s ‘Easter Island Origins’ explores surprising genetic research to help tell the story of the Rapa Nui people

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Five giant stone heads characteristic to Rapa Nui standing in a row with blue sky in the background

Ishaan Bansal, a second-year computer science and engineering student at UC Santa Cruz, won first place in the Interactive Media track at HackMIT, an annual student-run hackathon held in the fall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Erin Busch: Staff

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Graduate Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership, M.Ed.
Undergraduate Institution: California State University, Monterey Bay, Film and Television Production, B.A.
Department: Baskin Engineering Career Success

“My hope by building connections with industry is that it will help create pipelines for students and allow me to gain a deeper understanding of what companies are searching for in their applicants so I can better prepare students.”