Month: February 2011
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UCSC announces Baskins’ $1 million engineering gift at Scholarship Benefit Dinner
By Scott Rappaport, UCSC Public Information Office UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal announced a special $1 million gift from Jack and Peggy Downes Baskin for engineering graduate fellowships at the campus’s eighth annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner. Nearly 350 people turned out for UCSC’s annual fundraising gala, which took place Saturday night at the Fairmont Hotel…
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UCSC announces Baskins’ $1 million engineering gift at Scholarship Benefit Dinner
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal announced a special $1 million gift from Jack and Peggy Downes Baskin for engineering graduate fellowships at the campus’s eighth annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner. Nearly 350 people turned out for UCSC’s annual fundraising gala, which took place Saturday night at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. Attendees and sponsors contributed…
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Bioinformatics expert Richard Green wins Sloan Research Fellowship
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship to Richard E. (Ed) Green, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. The prestigious two-year fellowship includes a $50,000 grant to support Green’s research, which focuses on genome analysis…
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Bioinformatics expert Richard Green wins Sloan Research Fellowship
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship to Richard E. (Ed) Green, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. The prestigious two-year fellowship includes a $50,000 grant to support Green’s research, which focuses on genome analysis and the study of ancient DNA. The…
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UCSC’s Richard Green honored for top research paper in Science
UC Santa Cruz bioinformatics expert Richard Green and his coauthors of a landmark paper describing the Neanderthal genome have been chosen to receive the prestigious Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The prize is given annually to the authors of an outstanding paper published in the association’s journal Science. Green, an…
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UCSC’s Richard Green honored for top research paper in Science
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz bioinformatics expert Richard Green and his coauthors of a landmark paper describing the Neanderthal genome have been chosen to receive the prestigious Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The prize is given annually to the authors of an…