Two Baskin Engineering graduate students advance to 2025 UCSC Grad Slam finale

Ph.D. students Juanita Gomez, Prajna Hebbar, and Associate Dean for Graduate Experience and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Roberto Manduchi

Baskin Engineering graduate students Juanita Gomez and Prajna Hebbar have advanced to the final round of the 2025 UC Santa Cruz Grad Slam. They will compete against finalists from other UCSC academic divisions in the campus-wide Grad Slam finale on March 1.

Students champion equitable research in genomics and cybersecurity with Fellowship for Anti-Racism Research (FARR)

Portraits of Celine Neudorf and David Torres-Mendoza

Two UC Santa Cruz engineering graduate students are pursuing anti-racist research with the support of the Baskin Engineering Fellowship for Anti-Racism Research (FARR). Established in 2021, FARR supports two graduate students each summer with $6,000 in funding to advance research focused on combating racism and bias in technology and engineering.