July 03, 2013 – Alcohol consumption is a costly problem in the United States, in terms of both dollars and cents, and the resulting health impacts. In California alone, alcohol-related injuries, illnesses and trauma tops $38 billion annually – the equivalent of $1,000 per reside

June 28, 2013 – A delegation from Taiwan’s National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs) visited CALIT2 yesterday on a fact-finding mission. Irvine division director G.P. Li escorted five research scientists and the group’s international affairs coordinator through CalPlug, t

June 28, 2013 – As doctors and nurses rush through the busy emergency department in a large Southern California hospital, they probably don’t notice the petite young woman with the dark hair and wire-framed glasses standing to the side, scrawling in her notebook. And that’s fine

June 28, 2013 – G.P. Li vividly remembers his family being the first in his Taiwanese neighborhood to buy a television set so they could watch the Americans land on the moon. At 13, he was impressed and inspired. “America was the land of opportunity, so far ahead than any other

June 28, 2013 – Irvine, Calif., June 25, 2013 – SRCH2 Inc., a search-software company founded by UC Irvine computer science professor Chen Li, has launched a “Pay It Forward” program under which its products and services are free or deeply discounted for nonprofit and higher edu

June 27, 2013 – On university campuses, summer is often a pretty quiet time. Not so at CALIT2, where two orientations for student summer programs took place on the same day this week. SURF-IT, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology, is now in its

June 24, 2013 – Update: Twitter has matured, its 140 characters morphing from trivial musings into a go-to source for updated emergency info and messaging during disaster events. For the second consecutive year, wildfire rages through Colorado, leaving devastation in its wake. S

June 13, 2013 – Academics, innovators, entrepreneurs and would-be moguls crowded into the CALIT2 Auditorium last week to hear five seasoned pros divulge the finer points of creating  prosperous companies from startup ventures. Now in its eighth year, the semiannual CALIT2 Igniti

May 24, 2013 – Knowledge is power. For researchers at the California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) at CALIT2, knowledge can save power, too. That’s why the center is about to launch a large-scale online survey at UC Irvine. Researchers are hoping to learn more about the be

May 22, 2013 – When it comes to conserving energy and preserving the environment, most of us have good intentions. Our actions, however, often fall short. We’re busy and we don’t like being inconvenienced. The California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) located in the CALIT2