Milestone for MDP Students

April 05, 2013 – Two UC Irvine undergraduate students have achieved a rare educational triumph: they are the lead authors of a paper accepted at a major research and design conference. English and global cultures major Christine Bediones and psychology major Camille Macalinao, b
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Research Rewarded

March 15, 2013 – Two CALIT2 academic affiliates and a graduate student received encouraging news recently about their research efforts. Matt Law, assistant professor of chemistry and faculty director of LEXI – the Laboratory for Electron and X-ray Instrumentation – is one of thr
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Token of Appreciation

March 13, 2013 – Spinoff success story Hiperwall Inc.’s CEO wanted to say “thank you” to CALIT2 for the institute’s many years of nurturing and support. So the company, which had incubated in the CALIT2 Building from the time it incorporated in 2008 until its move last December
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Principles of Design – Past, Present and Future

February 20, 2013 – He was nursing a sore throat but that didn’t stop UC Irvine professor Sanjoy Mazumdar from sharing his passion for design with students in CALIT2/UROP’s Multidisciplinary Design Program. Mazumdar, professor of planning, policy and design, is co-mentoring a gr
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Highlighting Research Results

February 15, 2013 – Microfabrication and metal plating technologies – mainstays of electronic and biomedical devices – are rapidly advancing in complexity and sophistication. Both became a bit more transparent yesterday to an overflow audience at CALIT2 during a technology showc
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Tiny Test Tubes

January 25, 2013 – Startup company Biopico Systems is pushing the boundaries of the “lab on a chip” concept to picoliter scale. Founder John Collins and his staff are tapping the pumping and mixing capabilities of biofluidics to engineer a tiny chip that can process millions of
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Design and Discovery

January 14, 2013 – As winter quarter at UC Irvine begins, 100 undergraduates from diverse majors are embarking on a cross-disciplinary experience that has the potential to benefit them long after the school year ends. They have been selected as Fellows in the Multidisciplinary D
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Rehab Rebooted

January 04, 2013 – The company may not be completely moved into its new headquarters but TechPortal’s most recent tenant already feels right at home in the CALIT2 Building. Flint Rehabilitation Devices – a partnership among two UC Irvine graduate students and their faculty advis
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Social Services

December 19, 2012 – Sandwiched between the room-sized computers of the 1940s and the smart phones currently in millions of pockets worldwide is an era of unprecedented technological advancement. Equally significant is the accompanying social revolution. A new multidisciplinary c
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Moving On

December 14, 2012 – In a high-definition example of successful startup strategy and implementation, Hiperwall Inc. is leaving the nest. The spinoff company, which grew out of NSF-funded visualization research conducted in the CALIT2 Building, is moving into its own Irvine facili
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