June 05, 2014 – Innovation and entrepreneurship: oft-mentioned buzzwords, heard more and more frequently in university settings. UC Irvine is no exception and with good reason. Ongoing programs, new campus-wide initiatives and last week, a standing-room only crowd at CALIT2’s Ig

May 30, 2014 – Orange County business icon Donald Beall held an informal advice session with about 75 UC Irvine Multidisciplinary Design Program students and faculty last week in the CALIT2 auditorium. The entrepreneur, philanthropist and retired Rockwell chairman/CEO urged the

May 30, 2014 – Designing an iPad game that teaches children the basics of the human digestive system doesn’t sound terribly glamorous. But for Cathy Tran, a UC Irvine fourth-year doctoral student in the School of Education, who leads the project under the auspices of UCI’s Multi

May 16, 2014 – The California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) this week hosted its fifth in a series of workshops at CALIT2. Like its predecessors, this daylong event aimed to unite academia, business, government agencies, utilities and other stakeholders in the pursuit of e

May 16, 2014 – It was a nail-biter, 30 days of networking, texting, calling, emailing, tweeting and Facebooking – sharing by any means possible. Launching a Kickstarter campaign is not for the faint of heart. For Michelle Khine and four of her graduate students, it was an all-co

May 16, 2014 – A startup company born at CALIT2 was lauded earlier this month at a University of California event that showcased the university’s technology commercialization efforts. Steve Jenks, co-founder and chief scientist at Hiperwall, Inc., was asked to participate on a p

May 16, 2014 – Said Shokair was supposed to be a doctor. His high school test scores qualified him for medical school, which he entered at age 17 in his native Syria. Six months later, though, after chatting with an uncle who was a pediatric cardiologist at UCLA, he opted to com

May 15, 2014 – Carl-SJR isn’t your typical-looking robot, if, in fact, there is such a thing. It doesn’t have arms and legs, or other human-like features, but it enjoys being touched and rubbed. It’s these traits that may just be what make the robot a winner with its target audi

May 15, 2014 – One wouldn’t expect the leaders of a company specializing in products for stroke patients to be in their mid-20s. But youth is clearly the genius behind Flint Rehabilitation Devices, a startup company headquartered in TechPortal, the CALIT2 technology busine

May 14, 2014 – Asthma sufferers and others with pulmonary disorders are well acquainted with nebulizers. They’re those sometimes bulky gadgets, also known as inhalers, which disperse an aerosol stream of medication directly into the lungs. Unfortunately, though, most commercial