From consideration to commitment: Baskin student ambassadors provide insight, support to prospective students

Baskin Engineering Student Ambassadors

As they consider the UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering, prospective and newly admitted students get a unique look into the Baskin experience through peer-led tours.

Industry leader Alexandra Navarro addresses overcoming imposter syndrome and finding belonging and inclusion in tech

The 2022 Diverse Voices speaker series kicked off on April 20 with Paystand Chief of Staff Alexandra Navarro discussing the importance of building self-confidence, maintaining a support system, and setting actionable goals to succeed personally and professionally.

Baskin Engineering Professor Kate Ringland awarded inaugural 2022-23 Sung-Mo Steve Kang DEI Award

Kate Ringland

The Baskin School of Engineering recognized Assistant Professor of Computational Media Kate Ringland as the inaugural recipient of the Sung-Mo Steve Kang Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. This annual award recognizes a faculty member who is making meaningful strides toward more inclusive teaching and education at Baskin Engineering.

Baskin Engineering fosters student opportunities through corporate partnerships

CSSPP Student Job Fair Spring 2022

On April 13, nearly 500 students connected with companies and campus organizations for an afternoon of networking and recruitment for summer internships and full-time career opportunities.

UC Santa Cruz trailblazers featured in Santa Cruz Works 2022 Titans of Tech

2022 Titans of Tech

Alexander Wolf, Baskin Engineering dean, and Becca Fenwick, director of the CITRIS Initiative on Drone Education and Research, are two of the 11 tech professionals selected to be a part of the Santa Cruz Works 2022 Titans of Tech.

CruzHacks 2022: Sparking innovation and embracing inclusion in tech

Cruzhacks 2022 banner

The annual UCSC hackathon brought together over 400 students worldwide to learn new skills and develop innovative technological solutions to real-world challenges.

Gerrald Lodewijk: Postdoctoral Scholar

Gerrald Lodewijk: Postdoctoral Scholar

Graduate Institution: Utrecht University, Neuroscience and Cognition, M.S., and University of Amsterdam, Molecular Neuroscience, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution: Utrecht University, Biomedical Sciences, B.S.
Advisor: Ali Shariati
Department: Biomolecular Engineering

“It’s been nice to establish a research network at UCSC and outside of the UCSC research community, which has allowed me to secure new project collaborations and expand my research scope.”

Invention inspires UCSC-Alisal bio collaboration, taking basic research way beyond basics

Students looking through microscopes

Fall quarter 2020, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s Scientific Director David Haussler had an inspiration: “Let’s use our Picroscope to introduce Alisal High students to research!” With that, the Genomics Institute Office of Diversity was on its way to piloting a remote teaching project in an Advanced Placement® (AP) biology class at Alisal High School in Salinas, California, located about an hour’s drive south of Santa Cruz.