February 22, 2011 – Drew Senyei, M.D. knows a little something about healthcare. For more than 25 years, the physician and venture capitalist has built emerging life science and healthcare companies and holds 25 patents of his own. He invented the first FDA-approved test to pred

February 16, 2011 – Lean is an oft-repeated buzzword and a desired result in cuisine, muscle mass and manufacturing. It’s also a key concept in the evolving startup environment, as would-be entrepreneurs learned at this month’s TechPortal Entrepreneurs Series from business devel

February 15, 2011 – The storms that showered Orange County in late 2010 have provided a healthy start to an innovative UC Irvine pilot project on how local and imported plants affect each other – and how to help restore the more delicate native plants. The Hiperwall in CALIT2

February 09, 2011 – The U.S. Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research has one paramount goal: to make even the “gee-whiz” technologies of today obsolete. In order to accomplish that ambitious agenda, it is reaching out to universities and research laboratories around the world

February 08, 2011 – This summer CALIT2 and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program will again offer UCI faculty members an opportunity to have undergraduate researchers assist them in mentored projects. The projects may be in any discipline, but they should have a subst

February 08, 2011 – CALIT2 affiliate Bill Tomlinson, informatics associate professor, delivered a plenary address last week in Washington, D.C. at a workshop that explored research challenges facing worldwide sustainability. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the C

January 18, 2011 – Hamid Jafarkhani, Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a CALIT2 academic participant, is one of four UC Irvine professors recently elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The four were h

January 12, 2011 – A program launched recently by CALIT2 and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program now offers UCI undergraduate students another way to experience hands-on multidisciplinary research. The Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP) will engage undergraduate

January 10, 2011 – In a novel cross-disciplinary endeavor, a social scientist, an electrical engineer and a computer scientist with a bent for biology have entered into a collaboration that could open the door to novel advances in network analysis. Project PI Athina Markopoulou

January 05, 2011 – CALIT2 academic affiliate Stephen Ritchie, director of UC Irvine’s Institute of Transportation Studies, received the prestigious 2010 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers in October at the society’s ann