Ready, Aim, Record!

November 23, 2010 – CALIT2 faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students and staff are invited to participate in a unique video project in honor of the institute’s upcoming 10th anniversary celebration. The experimental, participatory 4K cinema project will capture the diversity o
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Professor Claims International Water Prize

November 22, 2010 – UCI professor Soroosh Sorooshian, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, recently garnered prestigious international acclaim.  The director of UCI’s Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, and CALIT2 a
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Power to the People

November 18, 2010 – An overflow crowd attended this month’s Igniting Technology event in the CALIT2 Building, discovering the latest in energy efficiency research, policy, building codes, incentives and feedback mechanisms. The semiannual event is sponsored by intellectual prope
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Raising Resources

November 10, 2010 – Raising capital to fund a new business is not something most researchers relish. But it’s a necessary evil, and last week researchers and entrepreneurial hopefuls got some useful tips from seasoned experts when they attended the second event in the CALIT2/Tec
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Green IT Blooms

November 02, 2010 – By 2012, Southern California Edison will have installed 5 million “smart” electricity meters in homes and small businesses throughout its 50,000-square-mile territory. The devices, which provide hourly data and can be accessed wirelessly, will enable consumer
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Hemminger Named Research Vice Chancellor

October 28, 2010 – CALIT2 collaborator John C. Hemminger has been named UCI vice chancellor for research, effective Nov. 1, 2010. Hemminger has been dean of the School of Physical Sciences since August 2006. A UCI alumnus in chemistry, Hemminger received his Ph.D. in chemical ph
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Research: A Bird’s Eye View

October 26, 2010 – Nine UCI undergraduate students recount their SURF-IT summer research experiences. Ana Maria Sanchez: I am especially interested in what role online game worlds play in children’s lives and the benefits there may be for spending a lot of time there. I like to
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Wanted: Energy Efficiency Proposals

October 20, 2010 – In conjunction with its effort to establish a center for applied research on energy efficiency in plug-load appliances, CALIT2 is seeking proposals for evaluation by the California Energy Commission. Proposals should focus on energy efficiency in electronic de
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UROP Fall Call for Proposals

October 19, 2010 – UC Irvine’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), a CALIT2 partner, has issued its fall call for proposals. UCI undergraduates from all disciplines who are conducting research projects or creative activities under the guidance of faculty a
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Campus Collaboration Aids Critical Purchase

October 18, 2010 – UCI chemists, physicists, materials scientists, biologists and medical researchers heaved a collective sigh of relief last week as a new scanning electron microscope/focused ion beam was installed in the microscopy lab at CALIT2. The Quanta 3D FEG 600, manufac
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