Veteran teacher shows how achievement gaps in STEM classes can be eliminated
For the first time in Professor Tracy Larrabee’s 29 years of teaching, after five quarters of steady improvement and constant experimentation with teaching methods, the gap between the grades of her underrepresented minority and first-generation college students and the rest of the class vanished.
Jared Duval: Graduate Student
Degree Program: Ph.D., Computational Media
Graduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: Western New England University
Department: Computational Media
Hometown: Dudley, Massachusetts
“SpokeIt is a big team project I’m working on. It’s a game with this overarching narrative and within that game there are a bunch of therapeutic mini games that focus on different kinds of speech therapy.”
Dean Alex Wolf leads growing engineering school in era of technological change
As he begins his second full academic year as dean, we sat down with Dean Wolf to discuss his first year and his plans for the future of the engineering school.
Philanthropist Jack Baskin chosen for Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame
Jack Baskin, whose steadfast support led to the establishment and rapid growth of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been selected for induction into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.
New Engineering 2 Building offers state-of-the-art facilities for research and teaching
Completion of the Engineering 2 Building this summer has added 150,000 square feet of new office, laboratory, and classroom space on campus, primarily for the Baskin School of Engineering.
UC Santa Cruz launches the Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Focus will be on the high-technology needs of the region and the state in the next century.