2025 awards and accolades
An ongoing list of fall 2025 accolades and research awards given to Baskin Engineering faculty, students, and staff.
Baskin Engineering News
Students champion equitable research in genomics and cybersecurity with Fellowship for Anti-Racism Research (FARR)
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.
Computer Engineering Ph.D. student wins prestigious high performance computing fellowship
Jessica Dagostini, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering, was awarded the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) Computational and Data Science fellowship. Dagostini is one of two recipients of this prestigious fellowship, which is highly competitive and awarded after a rigorous merit review. It is intended … Read more
Baskin Engineering postdoc receives the 2024 GitHub Empowering Educator Award
Double UC Santa Cruz alumna and Baskin Engineering postdoctoral fellow Emily Lovell, was awarded the 2024 GitHub Empowering Educator Award for her efforts to support computer science students and foster an inclusive computing community at UCSC.
Inaugural meeting of the NSF PLUS Alliance Western Regional Hub sets path for diversity and success in engineering
The UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering hosted the inaugural meeting of the NSF PLUS Alliance Western Regional Hub at the 2024 Society for Advancement of Chicanos & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference in Phoenix, Arizona. This gathering brought together representatives from 13 institutions—spanning research labs, community colleges, and four-year universities—all committed to … Read more
Continuing leadership in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in engineering
Across the country, many states have begun to restrict the ability of their colleges and universities to mount programming meant to support access, inclusion, and diversity efforts. We can expect this trend to continue.
Marc Mangel selected as Fellow of the Society for Mathematical Biology
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics Marc Mangel has devoted much of his research career to understanding biological challenges, particularly species conservation and fisheries management, through mathematics. Now, the prestigious Society for Mathematical Biology has recognized Mangel’s contributions to this field by selecting him as a Fellow. Read on for a brief Q&A about Mangel’s … Read more
Ph.D. student wins major fluid dynamics research award
Anuj Kumar, who completed his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in June 2023 with Professor Pascale Garaud and is currently the Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, was awarded the Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Mechanics of the American Physical Society.
Applied Mathematics Ph.D. student wins Best Poster award at SIAM meeting
Nicholas Rondoni, a Ph.D. student in Applied Mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, won the Best Poster award at the Northern and Central California section meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Rondoni’s research focuses on the accurate inference of neuronal spiking activity — the electrical activity within the brain that neurons use … Read more
Baskin Engineering welcomes new engineering students at first in-person undergrad orientation
The Baskin School of Engineering held their first in-person Fall Orientation on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, hosting 1,300 newly admitted first-year and transfer students.
New faculty join Baskin Engineering with expertise in AI, sustainability, health engineering, and more
The Baskin School of Engineering welcomes a cohort of 12 new faculty members to the 2024-25 academic year.
Building connections between Summer Edge and Baskin Engineering: A welcome to engineering at UCSC
Baskin School of Engineering hosted its 3rd annual Meet and Greet for incoming first year and transfer students with proposed engineering majors. The event was an annual collaboration as part of UCSC’s Early Start Program, Summer Edge.