Friis Arne Petersen [Danish Ambassador to the United States], CITRIS: EU as a Rising Superpower, Friday, December 5, 2:00 pm, Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley campus

Daniel Sperling [Founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis], CITRIS Distinguished Speaker Series: Two Billion Cars and California Climate Policy, Monday, December 8, 4:00 pm, 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley

Dr. Yue-Loong Hsin - Chief of Neurology of Tzu Chi Medical Center, Taiwan, Neurophysiology of Epilepsy:from basic research to therapeutic approach, Tuesday, December 9, 3:00 pm, Engineering 2 Building, Room 215

UCSC to host international renewable energy program

Last summer, U.S. and Danish students learned firsthand about renewable energy technologies being implemented in Denmark through a program organized by faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Next year, UCSC will host the four-week summer program, along with NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.  More

Magnetic nanotags allow sensitive detection of cancer biomarkers

The detection of cancer-associated proteins, or biomarkers, in blood samples is a potentially powerful tool for early diagnosis of cancer and monitoring of cancer treatment. A team led by researchers at Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, has developed a compact prototype detector that uses magnetic nanotechnology to spot cancer-associated proteins in a human blood serum sample with much higher sensitivity than current detectors.  More

A team of SOE researchers receive IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Award for Best Unclassified Paper at 2008 Milcom conference

A paper by a team of researchers in the Baskin School of Engineering was selected to receive the IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Award for Best Unclassified Paper at the 2008 Milcom conference in San Diego. The authors of the paper are graduate student Zheng Wang; postdoctoral fellow Shirish Karande; Hamid Sadjadpour, associate professor of electrical engineering; and J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Baskin professor of computer engineering. They will be honored for their paper "On the capacity improvement of multicast traffic with network coding." The researchers will receive the award in a ceremony during the Chairman's Gala at the conference on November 18.  More

Expert on origins of life to give free public lecture November 13 at UCSC

Biochemist David Deamer will discuss the origins of life in a free public lecture on Thursday, November 13, at UC Santa Cruz.   More

Sun Microsystems Renews OpenSPARC Center of Excellence at UCSC

Sun Microsystems has renewed the OpenSPARC Center of Excellence at UCSC. Sun created the first ever OpenSPARC center of excellence in UCSC as a renewable 3 year project. The Center of Excellence establishes a collaborative partnership between Sun and UCSC faculty (Assistant Prof Renau and Guthaus) who are working with the OpenSPARC community and promoting OpenSPARC in academia and research. This second Year, Sun donated a $100K gift to provide additional support to the MASC group and sponsor a new "Distinguished OpenSPARC Guest Talk" seminar.  More