August 30, 2013 – The days are getting shorter, Labor Day is approaching and a new academic year is looming. And yesterday, in the CALIT2 Building, there was another irrefutable indication that summer is coming to an end. The 2013 SURF-IT Fellows wrapped up their 10-week researc

August 23, 2013 – Gillian Hayes is determined to create sustainable change – improvements in technology and society that exist after specific research projects are completed. The associate professor of informatics works at the intersection of education, computer science, health

August 15, 2013 – Some of it is intuitive, other aspects are more complex, but knowledge of research regulations and compliance is essential to anyone entering a lab or conducting an experiment. This year’s seven SURF-IT students are a lot more familiar with the topic after this

August 12, 2013 – Spinal cord injuries are among medicine’s most complex challenges. Last week’s speaker at the SURF-IT lunchtime seminar series shared the progress his research team is making into repairing a particularly vexing form of spinal cord damage. Injuries to the lower

August 07, 2013 – Enric Grustan Gutierrez studies propulsion so maybe it’s not surprising that he’s a force of nature himself. The high-energy mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral candidate designs and microfabricates tiny arrays of electric-propelled thrusters that cou

August 07, 2013 – CALIT2 affiliate Andrei Shkel, has been recognized with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Exceptional Public Service by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). For the past four years, Shkel has served as program manager of th

August 01, 2013 – This year’s SURF-IT Fellows have spent five weeks peering into microscopes, writing computer code, analyzing data and synthesizing chemical compounds. For some, this has been their first foray into applied research. This week the seven undergraduates marked a n

July 30, 2013 – A respected collaborator and steadfast friend of CALIT2 passed away last week. Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, UC Irvine professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, and mathematics, died on July 22, 2013, in College Station, Texas, after a long bat

July 26, 2013 – A couple of old pros returned to the SURF-IT program this week to share their school/work/life expertise with the current group of research Fellows. Jordan Sinclair and Johnway Yih, SURF-IT Fellows in 2008 and 2010 respectively, both went on to master’s programs

July 23, 2013 – A very enthusiastic group of would-be engineers in bright yellow t-shirts has been spotted entering the CALIT2 Building every afternoon for the last two weeks. The middle-school students – nine girls and 22 boys, this week – are participating in the inaugural sum