Jan. 22, 2016 – This year, 66 MDP Fellows were selected to participate in 13 projects mentored by 41 faculty and graduate students project leads as part of the Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP). MDP engages UCI undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines in fiv

Dec. 16, 2015 –   Near the end of the Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago, man discovered fire. This magical element allowed our early ancestors to warm their homes, cook food and clear vast forests for livestock and agriculture. By the Industrial Age, mankind had mastered the

Nov. 30, 2015 – Augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) are going to be huge, and both will be adopted quickly – even though the average person isn’t familiar with the technology today. This was the message shared by the five speakers featured at the fall 2015 Igniting Tec

Nov. 20, 2015 – Plug load waste is identified as standby power from appliances that continue to draw power even when they are turned off, or appliances that aren’t turned off when they’re not in use. This sort of wasted power – from televisions, lighting, air conditioners, water

Nov. 04, 2015 – In what UCI Provost Enrique Lavernia called a model campus partnership, CALIT2 and Microsemi Corp. joined forces to create the Microsemi Innovation Lab, featuring the latest in semiconductor hardware and software capabilities. A generous donation from Microsemi t

Oct. 07, 2015 – On Sept. 25, the third annual Microbiome Symposium was held at CALIT2 Irvine. About 80 people attended the all-day event, co-hosted by UCI’s Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, CALIT2 and Initiative for Data Science at UC Irvine. The term “microbiome

Aug. 31, 2015 – The 2015 Summer SURF-IoT program concluded Thursday when final presentations were delivered. This was the eleventh consecutive year, the 10-week SURF-IT student summer research program has been held at UC Irvine SURF-IoT – the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow

Aug. 10, 2015 – There are still hurdles, however. “We have closely collaborated with the UCI engineering school, mainly with Professor Gaudiot’s group, to develop cutting-edge technologies on AI and autonomous driving, and we have a series of good results coming out,” says Liu.

Aug. 20, 2015 – Orange County’s life sciences industry has become one of the primary drivers of economic growth in the region. The OC is considered a hub in both the medical device/diagnostics sector and the biopharmaceuticals sector. The device/diagnostics sector has an estimat

Aug. 13, 2015 – Intel is in. Apple, Google, Uber and chipmaker Nvidia are on board, too. Now, a company called PerceptIN, founded by an entrepreneur who earned all of his degrees, including a doctorate, from UC Irvine, is competing in Silicon Valley’s hottest race: to develop an