June 26, 2012 – It’s the first full week of summer, and for the eighth consecutive year, a group of wide-eyed UC Irvine undergraduates is spending it – and nine more to follow – immersed in hands-on research inside an assortment of campus laboratories. For many of the 11 student

June 15, 2012 – Biomedical engineering graduate student Nizan Friedman was one of 12 student finalists from around the world invited to present his research last week at the inaugural Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition. Held at the Irvine Hyatt Regency hotel dur

June 12, 2012 – As another academic year draws to a close, so too does a novel program that gives undergraduates the opportunity to collaborate with their peers across disciplines. The Multidisciplinary Design Program, which began its second season in March with 90 students, is

June 01, 2012 – Progress was evident as team after team of undergraduate students – 14 teams to be exact – provided research updates to a CALIT2 audience in May. The students are part of the Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP), co-supported by CALIT2 and UCI’s Undergraduate R

May 30, 2012 – David Jankowski, intellectual property attorney and partner at event sponsor Knobbe, Martens, Olson and Bear, opened CALIT2’s 15th Igniting Technology presentation last week by laying down the law. First, Moore’s Law: the number of transistors that can be placed i

May 24, 2012 – Nineteen-ninety-seven marked the beginning of a long national nightmare for a wide swath of southern Australia. The area, which includes the city of Melbourne, experienced the last significant rainfall it would see for more than a decade. The parched region sweate

May 22, 2012 – U.S. Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, who represents California’s 47th congressional district, sponsored a standing-room-only federal grants workshop at CALIT2 yesterday.  Focused on obtaining funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the worksh

May 18, 2012 – Update 05.23.12: Yesterday, Wotz was awarded the $15,000 grand prize in the student category by the competition’s expert panel of judges. Voting for the popular choice award continues through May 31 at http://appsforenergy.challenge.gov/submissions/7998-wotz

May 17, 2012 – Working at the micro- and nanoscale, graduate students in UC Irvine’s LifeChips program combine elements of biology, engineering, physical sciences and medicine to produce pioneering healthcare technologies.  The program is funded by the National Science Foundatio

May 16, 2012 – CALIT2’s Green IT Lab has gone gold. Lab director Bill Tomlinson and his doctoral student Joel Ross were both recognized by UC Irvine’s Academic Senate Council on Student Experience for outstanding accomplishments in undergraduate education. Tomlinson, associate p