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A Big Congratulations to Our Dean's & Chancellor Awards Winners!

Please join us in congratulating the following students who were selected to receive either a Dean's or Chancellor award for their outstanding research projects. 

Dean's Award

• Bell Jar: A Semi-Automated Registration and Cell Counting Tool for Mouse Neurohistology Analysis
  Alec Leon Ray Soronow (Merrill)
• CRISPy Lettuce
  Meghan Marthenia Mathers (Eight)
  Meghan Anne Burr (Cowell)
  Samuel Nicholas Magdaleno (Eight)
  Aiden Michael Mcfadden (Eight)
• Engineering Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Using CRISPR Activation
  Sayaka Kozuki (Nine)
• Inferring non-additive multi-locus selection in introgressed populations using hidden Markov models
  Nicolas Maggiani Ayala (Crown)
• Organoid-Ion Pump Integration
  Elana M Muzzy (Nine)
• Quantum Circuit Superoptimization
  Alan Arthur Brilliant (Nine)
• Towards a Gaze-Based Immersive Virtual Reality Game for Improving Visual Acuity with Amblyopia
  Rohan Jhangiani (Stevenson)
  Adrian Parrales (Ten)

Chancellor's Award

• Hardware Acceleration For Multi-Scalar Multiplication In Zero-Knowledge Proofs
  Connor Curran Masterson (Eight)
• Labelled Control Improvisation
  Eric Elijah Vin (Oakes)
• Progenie: Programmable Gene Disruption in Pathogenic Bacteria
  Torrey Delphine Brownell (Porter)
  Franklin Zheng (Ten)
  Tobin Lior Berger-Cahn (Porter)
  Denise Rosalinda Calderon (Kresge)
  Yi-Chi Chu (Merrill)
  Rose M Delvillar (Eight)
  Alfonso Cazarez Gamino (Merrill)
  Tarabryn Shepherd Grismer (Cowell)
  Emily Marie Hallamasek (Eight)
  Julia Andrianna Howard (Crown)
  Stephen Jen-Der Hwang (Merrill)
  Tanya Elise Ivanov (Crown)
  Rhea Rajesh Kamath (Ten)
  David James Kelaita (Porter)
  Natasha Amy Liu (Eight)
  Nabil Mohammed (Ten)

Weekend of Volunteering & Fun 6/18-6/19

Join us for an awesome weekend of volunteering and fun on Saturday and Sunday, June 18-19, from 8:30am to 1pm in Arana Gulch. 

When: Saturday and Sunday, June 18-19, 

Time: 8:30am to 1pm

Where: Arana Gulch, Agnes Street Entrance

About: We're looking forward to a fun day of watershed education and community action, including invasive species removal, family friendly fish printing, other salmon related crafts, and lots of locally donated snacks and coffee! We would love for anyone to join for one or both days. A flyer with more information is attached. 

Hosts: This event is co-hosted by the City of Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation department and Isabelle Tang and Noël Clark, corps members with the Watershed Stewards Program and members of the NOAA SWFSC Scott Creek team. 

More info about the event and link to RSVP here. 

The Grainger College of Engineering Announces MERGE 2022 Campus Visit Program

The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We would like to invite qualifying juniors and seniors in your undergraduate engineering programs to apply for our 2022 Multicultural Engineering Recruitment for Graduate Education (MERGE) Campus Visit Program. This year's live virtual visit event is scheduled for Friday, September 23, 2022, 2:00 - 5:30 pm central time.

UC Undergraduate Experience Survey

The UC Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES) is one key way for students to give feedback that faculty, leadership, and staff within Baskin Engineering and throughout UC Santa Cruz will rely on to impact academic programs and student services. 

The survey will be open through spring and early summer, through the end of June, and there are many prize drawings for giftcard prizes ranging from $50 to $200.

Complete the survey by going directly to https://relay.ucsc.edu/r/e3220 or read more about the survey at ucues.ucsc.edu.

Internship Finding Tool for UCSC Students

Don’t know where to look for jobs & internships? Hate filling out job applications? Simplify is a free browser extension that helps you autofill job & internship applications anywhere on the web – think of it like Honey for jobs. The platform also has a database of over 100,000 open positions and includes cool job lists like Tech Internships at Unicorns and Business Roles at Top Startups.

The founders are super excited to help UCSC students get hired so they made a dedicated email for UCSC students to directly contact them at ucsc@simplify.jobs. Great resource now that recruiting season is kicking into full swing! 

Get started here: https://simplify.jobs

Learning Support Services is Hiring!

­ ­ ­ ­ Learning Support Services is Hiring! Join Our Team! ­ Are you interested in expanding your resume with a competitively paying campus job? Apply to be a Tutor for Fall 2022!    Tutors facilitate interactive learning sessions to deepen students’ knowledge and practice course material.They gain essential skills in facilitation, receiving feedback and communication, all while building relationships with UCSC staff and faculty! ­ ­ What positions is LSS hiring for? Large Group Tutor  Small Group Tutor (SGT)   Writing Individual Tutor  ­ ­ Apply Now!  ­ ­ We encourage you to apply early! All applications will be reviewed throughout Summer. The last day to apply is August 1st, 2021.   Please browse our position descriptions and the open positions page in the meantime.  ­ ­ ­ LSS is also hiring Student Office Assistants! If interested please use the instructions below to apply!  ­ ­ ­ How to Apply to the Student Office Assistant Position  You must have Work-study for this LSS Position After, go to the UCSC Career Center website, and fill out an application for job #0529 to be considered. Fill out the questionnaire in the automated response you receive after submitting your application on the ER system ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ If you have any questions about the positions, please feel free to contact Learning Support Services at lss@ucsc.edu. You can also stop by our Front Desk Zoom ­

AccessComputing: an NSF-funded project to increase students with disabilities in computing

           

 Are you a computing student with a disability?  

 

Looking for an internship?  Want to connect with peers and mentors with disabilities?  AccessComputing can help you do that. 

AccessComputing, a National Science Foundation funded Broadening Participation in Computing Alliance, provides mentoring and funding for career development activities for students with disabilities in computing-related fields. This includes:

MENTORING: Through our online community, students and mentors discuss a variety of topics. It is a place to connect with others to share your successes, ask for suggestions regarding any issues that may arise for you related to your disability, education or employment, and to support other team members when they need help brainstorming solutions.

 

TUTORS: Struggling with a computing course? Please contact us about tutor support. Each term, AccessComputing can fund a limited number of tutors for project participants.

CONFERENCES: Interested in attending a conference related to computing, diversity, or professional development?  AccessComputing may be able to provide funding for travel, registration, or accessibility-related costs.  While we can't send every student to every event, we do fund many students each year to attend events like Grace Hopper, the Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, SIGCSE, and the Computing Research Association's Widening Participation events, among others. 

RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS: Every year AccessComputing funds students with disabilities to participate in the Computing Research Association's Distributed Research Experience for Undergraduates Program.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

Age: Participants should be 18+.

Disability: At AccessComputing, we recognize that not all students with disabilities register with their campus disability/accessibility office and that they have a variety of reasons for not doing so. For that reason, we do not require our participants to be registered with their campus disability office, or to provide medical documentation of a disability as a condition of eligibility. We do require a self-report from you, discussing your disability and the ways in which it creates barriers for you. All information provided on the application is confidential and is only ever reported to the National Science Foundation in an aggregate manner.  

Academics: Participants should be in a computing-related field.

 

WHEN CAN YOU APPLY?

AccessComputing does not have an application deadline; because of the way our funding is designed, we can accept applications at any time throughout the life of the AccessComputing program - and guess what? We've been around for more than 15 years and have been successful enough that we're on our fifth consecutive NSF grant!

Find the application and more information online.

 

 

 

Jobs

Entry Level Specialist Position at SCIPP

We're looking for a junior level staff person to join the Fast Sensors group here at SCIPP. It's not impossible that this would turn into a career position (Specialist track), as it has for one or two of your prior students. Although the person would likely grow into more sophisticated technical roles, for now we seek someone that has experience (or perhaps even just interest) in:

• Provide support for runs at both domestic and international accelerator laboratories, including designing and assembling mechanical supports and developing data acquisition approaches and utilities
• Load PC boards that implement and support various microelectronic designs, including ASICs and high-speed compact signal paths, and carry out characterization studies
• Have experience in, or interest in learning, the design of PC boards and associated servicing functions for precision timing and high frame rate signal applications
• Be responsible for several laboratory operational functions, including purchasing and shipping
• Oversee general laboratory organization and hygiene

Beyond this, and into future years, opportunities may exist in high-speed PC board design and layout, TCAD-simulation-base design of solid state sensors, ASIC design, and automated electromechanical assembly and prototyping.

Anyone interested in learning more about the position should contact:

Bruce Schumm

baschumm@ucsc.edu