Baskin Engineering welcomes new director of the Office of Student Success 

Portrait of Lynell Spencer

The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz has hired Lynell Spencer to lead the Office of Student Success, expanding efforts to close equity gaps and promote a thriving engineering community.  Baskin Engineering, as a high-performing professional school within the fast-paced environment of a research one university, has a wide range of opportunities for … Read more

Sri Kurniawan appointed next Baskin Engineering Associate Dean for Research

Portrait of Sri Kurniawan

Sri Kurniawan, professor of Computational Media who serves many mentorship and leadership roles across UC Santa Cruz, has been appointed the Baskin School of Engineering’s next Associate Dean for Research. In this role, which begins July 1, 2024, Kurniawan will support the highly impactful research of faculty across the six engineering departments. Kurniawan plans to … Read more

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

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