Bernt Wahl, Search, Public Health and Real Estate, Wednesday, February 10, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 506

Micro-robots to help recovery from natural disasters, and creating games to engage people with serious issues, Friday, February 12, 4:00 pm, Online

Ting Xu, Assemble Styrofoam for Nanodevices, Wednesday, February 17, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 506

Peter Meehan, KoAnn Skrzyniarz, Joshua Levine & Sandy Skees, Sustainability and Social Innovation: Doing Well by Doing Good, Thursday, February 18, 7:00 pm, Kuumbwa Jazz Center in downtown Santa Cruz

Josh Bloom, Abstracting Traditional Roles in Scientific Discovery and Inference: Application to Real-Time Astronomy, Wednesday, February 24, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 506

CITRIS / BSAC Workshop Sensors for Power Distribution: Operation, Fault Detection, and Maintenance, Tuesday, March 9, 8:00 am, Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

Student competition at CITRIS: $30K in prizes (LAST DAY!), Friday, March 19, 12:00 pm,

UCSC Scholarship Benefit Dinner raises more than $160,000 to support students

More than 300 people turned out for the seventh annual UC Santa Cruz Scholarship Benefit Dinner that took place Saturday night at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose.  More

New UCSC training program fosters ethics and justice discourse in science and engineering

This spring, the University of California, Santa Cruz, will launch a unique graduate-level training program funded by a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to cross-train scientists and engineers in humanities and social sciences, and vice versa.  More

7th annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner to support UCSC students--Feb. 6 at Tech Museum in San Jose

UC Santa Cruz will host its seventh annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner on Saturday, February 6, at the Tech Museum in San Jose.  More

Baskin School of Engineering will showcase groundbreaking research on Thursday, October 22

Groundbreaking research being pursued at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz will be showcased at the school's Research Review Day on Thursday, October 22. The event will include faculty research presentations and graduate student posters, providing a broad overview of exciting research in areas such as bioengineering, nanotechnology, software service engineering, cyber-infrastructure, biostatistics, and systems design.  More

An interview with engineering dean Arthur Ramirez

Arthur Ramirez, dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, came to UCSC from Bell Labs, a legendary center for science and engineering. He brings a true passion for using fundamental and applied research to solve real-world problems. In the interview that follows, he discusses the importance of developing deeper partnerships in Silicon Valley, and he describes the qualities that make the Baskin School of Engineering uniquely positioned to contribute to the rapidly changing technologies of the 21st century.   More

Summer programs focus on renewable energy research and education

The Bio-Info-Nano Research and Development Institute (BIN-RDI) of the University of California, Santa Cruz, is sponsoring four programs in renewable energy through the summer of 2009. The goal of these initiatives is to foster global collaborative study and research that yields useful alternative energy solutions.  More

Bio-Info-Nano Research and Development Institute holds workshops on local electric microgrids

More than 30 participants spent one day of intense interaction at the UCSC Silicon Valley Center in the NASA Ames Research Park at Moffett Field, California. The sessions, which included formal presentations and discussion, addressed many key challenges of renewable energy, including:  More

2008-2009 undergraduate student awards and scholarships

The Jack Baskin School of Engineering announced recipients and scholars for the undergraduate awards and scholarships, recognizing their outstanding commitment to engineering, academic achievements, and leadership.  More