May 07, 2010 – From the onset, those who called CALIT2 home knew that when their project’s funding ended, so too did their residency. Space in the building is assigned by project, not by department, and groups aligned with CALIT2’s research interests are given top consideration.

May 06, 2010 – As the moving walkway whisks them though the terminal at Belgium’s Brussels National Airport, travelers wave and gesture at brightly colored renderings of themselves on a 48-ft.-wide display wall. The images wave and gesture back from the bank of monitors mounted

May 06, 2010 – The Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program, administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Technology, stipulates that small technology businesses partner with a research university or other non-profit organization.  CALIT2 has partici

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 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 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