April 13, 2012 – How can UC Irvine students help California improve energy efficiency while earning class credit? By participating in a research team for CalPlug – the California Plug Load Research Center – housed in the CALIT2 Building. A group of about 20 interested students a

April 02, 2012 – A state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction (XRD) system installed last week in CALIT2’s Microscopy Center (part of LEXI, the Laboratory for Electron and X-ray Instrumentation), continues UCI’s march toward first-class materials characterization capabilities. The Rigak

March 29, 2012 – Drinking water standards, regulatory processes, treatment technologies and detection of carcinogens are just a few of the topics discussed today as almost 150 environmental chemists and others with an interest in drinking water gathered in the CALIT2 Auditorium

February 16, 2012 – At the age of 19, Amy Purdy lost the lower half of both legs due to a near-death battle with bacterial meningitis.  Now, eleven years later, the double amputee has conquered professional snowboarding with back-to-back world cup adaptive female champion titles

February 13, 2012 – CALIT2, in partnership with UCI’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, announces the availability of undergraduate research stipends through SURF-IT, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Information Technology. Planning is underway for th

February 13, 2012 – Improved health and well-being took center stage last week at the 3rd International Symposium on LifeChips.  More than 100 people from academia and industry gathered in the CALIT2 auditorium to exchange perspectives and progress in the converging field of eng

February 09, 2012 – The California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) attracted nearly 60 industry, government and academic experts to its inaugural workshop last week in the CALIT2 Building. The one-day workshop sought to build collaborations aimed at the improvement and adopt

February 08, 2012 – Garnet Hertz’s OutRun video-gaming vehicle has made quite the journey – from a lab in the CALIT2 Building to the pages of this month’s Popular Science magazine. CALIT2 academic associate Hertz, an artist in residence and research scientist in the Department o

February 06, 2012 – A new ”extreme high resolution” scanning electron microscope (SEM) that provides sub-nanometer imaging capability was installed last month in the CALIT2 Microscopy Center. The center is part of UCI’s materials characterization user facility, the Laboratory fo

January 31, 2012 – Results of a new study by researchers from the University of California, Irvine and the University of Kansas suggest that, contrary to popular belief, greater amounts of innovation, productivity and social wealth may occur when infringers are simply required t