May 05, 2010 – Irvine, Calif., May 4, 2010 — In an effort to speed commercialization of university-generated inventions in a moribund economy, UC Irvine is opening a new technology business incubator this week at the campus’s California Institute for Telecommunicatio

May 05, 2010 – “If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s fourth largest,” announces a popular video circulating on YouTube. Titled “Social Media Revolution,” it touts statistics to showcase the growing impact of social media. More and more people are using the vast co

May 05, 2010 – UC Irvine graduate student Jesse Baker had just returned from a grueling nine-month journey to Venezuela. It was his fourth trip in five years to Latin America to research the area’s environmental policies for his doctoral dissertation in the Department of Plannin

May 03, 2010 – CALIT2 academic affiliates are amassing grants, honors and awards. In April, two affiliates got good news. Pediatric neurologist Dr. Ira Lott received a five-year, $2.4 million National Institutes of Health grant to investigate ways to prevent or delay the onset o

April 27, 2010 – Engineering undergraduate Brandon Saller recently won a $3,000 research scholarship from the Microscopy Society of America for his analysis of a titanium alloy and the resulting abstract he submitted to the organization’s upcoming Microscopy & Microanalysis

April 19, 2010 – CALIT2 academic affiliate Abe Lee, a pioneer in micro-  and nano-fluidics technology, and professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical and aerospace engineering at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, has been named the new chair of the Department of B

April 19, 2010 – A program to train scientists to better manage vast, complex datasets, and a center that will transform human mobility through information technology and robotics, have been selected as the first recipients of the Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Research Ignition

April 16, 2010 – U.S. Rep. Grace Napolitano, who represents California’s 38th District, visited UC Irvine April 6 to meet with campus water researchers and participate in an open forum with students who are studying water-related issues. Her visit, an effort to bridge the gap be

April 15, 2010 – A paper written by CALIT2 academic affiliates Homayoun Yousefi’zadeh and Hamid Jafarkhani, professors of electrical engineering and computer science, has received the 2010 Best Paper Award from the IEEE/KICS Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN). “A

April 13, 2010 – More than 120 academics, energy experts, government representatives and members of the business community joined forces at the UC Irvine division of CALIT2 April 1 for a day-long brainstorming session. The focus of the effort was a proposed institute-directed en