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Baskin Engineering News
Computer scientists awarded $340K NSF grant to support research on quantum networks
The three-year project aims to develop new quantum network models and protocols to enhance computing security.
Engineering professor lands $700K grant to develop advanced sensing technology for vehicles
The three-and-a-half-year project is part of a long-term research initiative to increase the safety of autonomous vehicles.
$250K grant will help computational media researchers use alternate reality games to study resilience
Professors Magy Seif El-Nasr and Elin Carstensdottir will use the funds to examine how college students cope and adapt in unforeseen situations.
Baskin Engineering professor receives $300K in NIH funding to develop new brain imaging technology
The new project, a collaboration between UCSC and UC Davis Health researchers, will build on PET scan imaging tool originally developed at Baskin Engineering
Two Baskin Engineering graduate students awarded inaugural Fellowship for Anti-Racism Research
The new fellowship is designed to advance anti-racism research in technology and engineering, and adds to Baskin Engineering’s expanding portfolio of efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department establishes first external advisory council
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the Baskin School of Engineering recently formed an External Advisory Council (EAC) comprised of four industry and academic leaders who will advise the ECE chair and faculty on long-term strategy for the department’s teaching and research programs.
Invention inspires UCSC-Alisal bio collaboration, taking basic research way beyond basics
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.
Innovative solutions to pressing social, scientific issues pitched at the annual IDEA Hub competition
The top UC Santa Cruz startup teams presented their pitches at the grand finale of the annual IDEA Hub Pitch Contest, hosted by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development.
Leading scientist working to complete the human genome to join UCSC faculty
Karen Miga is a longtime Genomics Institute researcher, named “one to watch” by the journal Nature.
Professor Shiva Abbaszadeh collaborating with Western Digital to advance the engineering of chalcogenide alloys in novel semiconductor devices
The Radiological Instrumentation Laboratory (RIL) directed by Shiva Abbaszadeh, has entered into a research and development agreement with Western Digital, a leading data infrastructure company, to advance optical and electronic properties of chalcogenide alloys.
Baskin Engineering alumnus, dean discuss 21st century leadership at virtual event
Noted author and Baskin Engineering alumnus Michael Lopp joined Dean Alexander Wolf at this month’s University Forum for a virtual conversation on leadership in the 21st century.