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    National Postdoc Appreciation Week: Featuring Priya Crosby and Will DeRocco

    September 20, 2023

    National Postdoc Appreciation Week, organized by the National Postdoc Association (NPA) since 2009, takes place this year from September 18-22. This year, the UC Santa Cruz Science Division is highlighting the work of two outstanding postdocs: Priya Crosby and Will DeRocco.

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    UC Santa Cruz now offers graduate degrees in materials science and engineering

    June 1, 2023

    The interdisciplinary program will serve students interested in developing new materials for next-generation technologies.

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    Undergrad Samantha Contreras wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

    April 12, 2023

    Samantha Contreras, a junior majoring in physics at UC Santa Cruz, has been named a 2023 Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

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    Graphene quantum dots show promise as novel magnetic field sensors

    March 6, 2023

    Physicists found that speeding electrons trapped in circular loops in graphene quantum dots are highly sensitive to external magnetic fields.

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    UC Santa Cruz leads DOE program to train computational high-energy physicists

    February 3, 2023

    The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) at UC Santa Cruz is leading a consortium of western research universities and national laboratories in a new program to train the next generation of computational high-energy physicists.

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    Five student teams embark on tech for social good projects

    January 23, 2023

    Five student teams will take on tech for social good projects with funding from the UCSC CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and the UCSC Institute for Social Transformation.

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    Physicist Jairo Velasco Jr. wins $1.25 million award from Moore Foundation

    October 27, 2022

    The Moore Foundation’s Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative supports outstanding U.S. experimental physicists pursuing transformative research.

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    UCSC welcomes 41 outstanding new faculty members

    October 4, 2022

    With the start of the 2022-23 academic year, UC Santa Cruz welcomes 41 new senate faculty members. The research and creative scholarship and expertise brought to our campus by these new faculty colleagues will strengthen existing areas of work and open discovery opportunities.

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