11 steps we’ve taken to promote diversity at Hack UCSC 2015
By Brent M. Haddad Director, UCSC Center for Entrepreneurship & Hack UCSC 2015 Organizer January 4, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA It was Saturday morning,..
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Sponsors bring technology & project ideas to Hack UCSC
by Doug Erickson and Janneke Lang Hack UCSC 2015 When over 350 programmers, designers, and entrepreneurs gather on January 9-11, 2015 for HACK UCSC 2015, there..
UC Santa Cruz hosts expanded hackathon Jan 9 – 11
by Tim Stevens UC Santa Cruz HACK UCSC 2015 is open to students throughout the Monterey Bay region Themes are technology, environmental stewardship, and social..
Baskin Engineering 2014 year end review
(Source) BSOE’s top stories from 2014 BSOE’s new Department of Computational Media builds on the success of the campus’s pathbreaking..
Scientists reconstruct genome of common ancestor of crocodiles, birds, dinosaurs
By Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz [Image above: This phylogenetic diagram shows the inferred evolutionary relationships among birds, reptiles, and mammals. Colors..
Engineering a Microbe to Produce Biofuel from Cellulose
By Melissae Fellet UC Santa Cruz [Photo above: UC Santa Cruz iGEM team members posed with their poster at the iGEM Giant Jamboree in Boston, where they won a..
From smart grids to flying robots, engineer finds many applications for theory
By Melissae Fellet UC Santa Cruz (Photo above: Ricardo Sanfelice, associate professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Photo credit: C. Lagattuta) UC..
NCI Cloud Pilot program to boost cancer genomics data sharing, accessibility
By Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz (Photo above: David Haussler, Director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. Photo contributed.) UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley..
UCSC offers “Genome Browser in a Box” for local installations
by Melissae Fellet UC Santa Cruz (Photo above: Members of the UCSC Genome Browser team (left to right): Kate Rosenbloom, Galt Barber, Jim Kent, Bob Kuhn,..
How to sequence a banana slug genome
by Kevin Karplus Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz crowd-funds a $20K project to sequence mascot’s genome..