Technical innovation is the future, as President Obama constantly reminds us. UCSC will play a big part in that future, thanks to a $1 million gift by Jack and Peggy Downes Baskin to the School of Engineering—a school, it should be noted, which already bears Jack Baskin’s name. The endowment will allow graduate students to go for a PhD in engineering at the school. It will cover the costs of two students per year, says Dean Arthur Ramirez.
Technical innovation is the future, as President Obama constantly reminds us. UCSC will play a big part in that future, thanks to a $1 million gift by Jack and Peggy Downes Baskin to the School of Engineering—a school, it should be noted, which already bears Jack Baskin’s name. The endowment will allow graduate students to go for a PhD in engineering at the school. It will cover the costs of two students per year, says Dean Arthur Ramirez.
The school is hopeful that women, who are currently underrepresented in the engineering school, will apply for the grants. “Technically speaking we can’t restrict the fellowship to women,” says Ramirez, “but we are allowed to consider it as a tool to bring underrepresented groups into engineering.” Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
