The Baskin Engineering Dean’s Awards celebrate achievements in engineering research, honoring 10 distinguished undergraduate projects that demonstrate excellence and innovation in a range of fields, including biomedical research, machine learning, agricultural technology, and cybersecurity.
At the 2025 Santa Cruz (SC) Launchpad event, University of California, Santa Cruz students competed in an exciting business pitch competition for $40,000 in cash prizes. Notably, Baskin Engineering students contributed to four of the five winning teams.
Second-year Baskin Engineering student Siddharth Prothia (B.S., Computer Science; Electrical Engineering minor) is on a mission to enhance learning with RoboGrade—an AI-powered tool he developed to streamline grading and support for both students and educators.
The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz hosted the inaugural Baskin Engineering Climate Week April 21-25, 2025, focused on making connections between climate issues and the impact of sustainability research and teaching. The event brought together students, faculty, staff, alumni, campus partners, and the local community to highlight groundbreaking research and educational initiatives aimed at addressing the climate crisis.
The UC Santa Cruz student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is more than a Baskin Engineering student organization—it’s a hub for students to learn, collaborate, and prepare for future careers.
Two UC Santa Cruz engineering graduate students are advancing anti-racist research with the support of the Baskin Engineering Fellowship for Anti-Racism Research (FARR). Each year, FARR supports two graduate students with $6,000 in funding to pursue research focused on making engineering and technology more inclusive.
The Department of Computational Media at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz will contribute a wide range of publications to CHI 2025, the flagship annual conference for human-computer interaction and design. Researchers from UCSC’s Computational Media Department have made a significant impact at CHI 2025. They authored nine full papers, including one … Read more
In every direction, we face the urgency of climate change. In addition to the obvious empirical impacts, shifting policies and funding add to a growing sense of concern expressed by our students. But there is real momentum – that is why I am launching the first Baskin Engineering Climate Week, April 21-25, 2025.
The Baskin School of Engineering recognized Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Rebecca DuBois as the 2024-25 recipient of the Sung-Mo Steve Kang DEI Award. This annual award recognizes a faculty member who is making meaningful strides toward more inclusive teaching and education at Baskin Engineering.
UC Santa Cruz undergraduate students and siblings Guy Haiby (B.S., Computer Game Design) and Roee Haiby (B.S., Computer Science) received an honorable mention in the competitive National Football League (NFL) Big Data Bowl undergraduate category for their project Decoding Audibles: Leveraging Pre-Snap Signals.
Kate Compton (Ph.D. ’19, computer science) came to UC Santa Cruz to explore how to build better tools for human creativity.
In an article published in Wired, author James Fallows argues that despite facing numerous challenges and often being portrayed negatively in the rest of the country, California persists as a leader in innovation and progress, setting examples for the rest of the U.S. and the world.