Elizabeth Ayers, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley, Conditional Subspace Clustering of Skill Mastery: Identifying Skills that Separate Students, Monday, March 29, 4:00 pm, Engineering 2, room 180

Josh Bloom, Abstracting Traditional Roles in Scientific Discovery and Inference: Application to Real-Time Astronomy, Wednesday, March 31, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 506

Deirdre Mulligan, Legal issues in Energy Policies and Climate Change, Friday, April 2, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 506

Jean-luc Doumont, Making the Most of your Presentation, Friday, April 2, 12:30 pm, Engineering 2, Room 180

Persi Diaconis, Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford, Approximate Exchangeability, Monday, April 5, 4:00 pm, Engineering 2, room 180

Ian Burbulis, Molecule Counting Technology for Personalized Healthcare, Wednesday, April 7, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 506

John Goodin, CAISO: What it is & What Does it Do Now and in the Future, Friday, April 9, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 506

Craig Peters, Risk Measurement Alternatives For Event Driven Processes: The Search For VaR's Takeout, Monday, April 12, 4:00 pm, Engineering 2, room 180

Baskin in the News: UC Santa Cruz engineering students host robot shootout

High-tech robots went head-to-head in an old-fashioned shootout Friday night in which UC Santa Cruz Mechatronics students transformed the Engineering Lecture Hall into the OK Corral.  More

Baskin School of Engineering sponsors award for girls in computing

The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz is helping to sponsor a new award for young women in the greater San Francisco Bay Area who are interested in computing and technology.  More

UCSC in the News: Forbes: The World's Most Beautiful College Campuses

The UCSC campus was recently listed in Forbes Magazine's "The World's Most Beautiful College Campuses" list.  More

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