Associate Professor Dino Karabeg - Dept. Informatics, University of Oslo, POLYSCOPY - a prototype methodology for synthesizing general insights across disciplines and traditions, Monday, November 23, 4:00 pm, Engineering 2, room 180

Angela Pignotti, DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Validation of Lateral Boundary Conditions for Regional Climate Models, Tuesday, November 24, 10:00 am, Engineering 2 Room 399

Jing Chang, ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Topics in model selection: choosing the number of nodes for a neural network and choosing the inputs for a computer simulator, Wednesday, November 25, 1:30 pm, Engineering 2 Room 280

Chris Wilmers - UCSC, Environmental Studies, Exploring the consequences of climate change on ecological communities with stochastic population models, Monday, November 30, 4:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 180

Kassie Fronczyk, ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling and Risk Assessment for Dose-Response Studies, Wednesday, December 2, 10:30 am, Baskin Engineering Room 330

West Hays and Alayna Johnson, Due Processing: Incarceration and the Digital Divide, Wednesday, December 2, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2 Room 506

Gary Lopez, Improving Access to Education, Wednesday, December 9, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2 Room 506

Professor Eric Darve - Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, AMS Seminar, Monday, January 11, 4:00 pm, Engineering 2 Building, room 180

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

Five faculty members win 2009 NSF CAREER awards

Five UC Santa Cruz faculty members have won prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2009. Three of the recipients are faculty in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering: William Dunbar, assistant professor of computer engineering; Pascale Garaud, assistant professor of applied mathematics and statistics; and Joshua Stuart, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering. The others are Yat Li, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics, both in the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.  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

Baskin Engineering in the news: Santa Cruz Interactive MultiTouch Platform wins senior design competition

From the article published Sunday, June 14, 2009, in SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL and SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS  More

Philippe Kahn, serial entrepreneur, talks startups

The UCSC Business Plan Competition finals were held May 29, 2009.  Before announcing the winners - Sustainabites, Sky Is the Limit, Lingua Earth and Pherica - Philippe Kahn spoke to the competitors and their guests about the true nature of success.  More