Month: February 2010
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Nader Pourmand and Ion Torrent
By Richard Hughey, Computer Engineering Dept, UCSC Biomolecular engineering’s Nader Pourmand is profiled in a Bio-IT world article discussing the third-generation sequencing company ION Torrent Systems. Inventions of Pourmand, Stanford professor Ron Davis, and colleagues have led to a method of sequencing genomes with a CMOS chip, a technology that, as with computers, could lead to extraordinarily inexpensive…
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New UCSC training program fosters ethics and justice discourse in science and engineering
By Branwyn Wagman 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. Science and engineering students will work alongside social science and humanities students to identify…