July 03, 2014 – This summer’s 10 SURF-IT Fellows got an inside look at the life and research efforts of one of the program’s mentors this week during SURF-IT’s first lunchtime seminar. Postdoc researcher Birgit Penzenstadler works with computer science professors Bill Tomlinson

June 26, 2014 – Another season of undergraduate research is now officially underway at CALIT2. The 10th consecutive Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology (SURF-IT) program kicked off yesterday with a lunchtime orientation session. SURF-IT, co-sponsor

June 16, 2014 – Design. Test. Adapt. Repeat. For many years, trial and error guided product development. Engineers designed on paper, built a prototype, tested it in the lab, and made changes based on test results. They repeated the process an untold number of times, until the p

June 11, 2014 – It’s almost summer, and at CALIT2, that means jumping into the SURF-IT. For the 10th consecutive year, the institute’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology is poised to immerse a group of high-achieving undergraduates in mentor-guide

June 10, 2014 – CALIT2 academic affiliate Gillian Hayes, associate professor of informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, has been named the first holder of the Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Chair in Informatics. The Regents of the University

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