Promoting student success and inclusive pedagogy at the Baskin School of Engineering
Student-centered programming and professional teaching development workshops support inclusive learning and teaching in STEM classrooms.
Graduate Student
NIH grant supplement will support mentorship within biomedical research at UCSC
UC Santa Cruz Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Rebecca DuBois has won a grant supplement from the NIH to enhance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) in her lab and at UCSC.
Inaugural dissertation prize in experimental engineering awarded to BME Ph.D. candidate Alison Tang
The prize recognizes Alison Tang’s dissertation research on using nanopore sequencing technology to discover cancer-associated RNA variations.
Baskin Engineering Ph.D. candidates recognized for outstanding academic achievements
Seven Ph.D. candidates from five departments received 2022 fellowships, totaling $171K in stipend money to support their dissertation research.
How mentorship and a transformative graduate experience inspired alumnus Brian Levine to build a legacy of socially responsible innovation
Baskin Engineering’s 2022 distinguished graduate student alumnus Brian Levine credits his time at UC Santa Cruz for giving him the tools to become a life-long educator and socially impactful researcher.
New awards launched for applied mathematics students
Three new awards have been established at Baskin Engineering to support students pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies in applied mathematics.
CROSS-sponsored project merges with major open source software framework Apache Arrow
The Skyhook Data Management incubator project was created by researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) as a solution to cut down on client workload in filtering and decoding large datasets in storage systems.
Selin Ovali: Graduate Student
Degree Program: Human Computer Interaction, M.S.
Undergraduate Institution: Purdue University, Computer Science B.S.
Department: Computational Media
“I specifically chose this program because I really liked the people involved and the research currently being done at Baskin Engineering in the HCI field.”
Justin Grant: Graduate Student
Degree Program: Human Computer Interaction, M.S.
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Los Angeles, Philosophy, B.A.
Department: Computational Media
“My goal is to build on my undergraduate philosophy degree to develop technology that is useful and accessible to everyone.”
Researchers develop ‘clever’ sensor system to detect and control the complex movements of soft robotic devices
A sensing system developed by researchers at the Baskin School of Engineering provides a simplified and reliable approach for state awareness and motion detection in soft robotics.
Harika Dechiraju: Ph.D. Candidate
Degree Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution: National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (India), Instrumentation and Control Engineering, B.S.
Advisor: Marco Rolandi
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
“I’ve been working on developing bioelectronic devices for wound healing applications and tissue regeneration.”
Baskin Engineering student team places second at National Cybersecurity Competition
Students from Computer Science and Engineering placed second out of 120 university teams from around the country.