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
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.
The Baskin School of Engineering welcomes a cohort of 12 new faculty members to the 2024-25 academic year.
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.
This summer, QB3 at UC Santa Cruz launched the QB3 Biotech Undergraduate Summer Internships program, designed to give students work experience in the biotechnology field.
This summer, an inaugural cohort of 34 community college students participated in a unique program focused on data science and AI education at UC Santa Cruz.
For the third time, Baskin Engineering professor Lindsey Kuper co-hosted the !!Con (pronounced “bang bang con”) tech conference at UC Santa Cruz, bringing together 200+ attendees to celebrate the joys and surprises of computing.
The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz has hired Lynell Spencer to lead the Office of Student Success, expanding efforts to close equity gaps and promote a thriving engineering community. Baskin Engineering, as a high-performing professional school within the fast-paced environment of a research one university, has a wide range of opportunities for … Read more
The Santa Cruz (SC) Launchpad event on May 29, 2024 was an exciting opportunity for UC Santa Cruz students to compete in a business plan competition for $40,000 in cash prizes. Notably, Baskin Engineering students or alumni were on each of the winning teams.
Sri Kurniawan, professor of Computational Media who serves many mentorship and leadership roles across UC Santa Cruz, has been appointed the Baskin School of Engineering’s next Associate Dean for Research. In this role, which begins July 1, 2024, Kurniawan will support the highly impactful research of faculty across the six engineering departments. Kurniawan plans to … Read more
Scientists play a crucial role in understanding the climate crisis by researching its causes and predicting its impacts. For decades, our colleagues in the physical, natural and social sciences have sounded the alarm about the consequences of global warming, warnings that have largely been ignored among those for whom this crisis constitutes an “inconvenient truth.”
Dean’s Awards recognize 10 outstanding Baskin Engineering student-research projects.