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.

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

Inaugural meeting of the NSF PLUS Alliance Western Regional Hub sets path for diversity and success in engineering

Stage with musicians at the SACNAS conference

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

Marc Mangel selected as Fellow of the Society for Mathematical Biology

Portrait of Marc Mangel

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

Applied Mathematics Ph.D. student wins Best Poster award at SIAM meeting

Portrait of Nick Rondoni

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