August 20, 2009 – The last SURF-IT lunchtime seminar of the summer featured the program’s two remaining student-staffed research projects. First, education professor Mark Warschauer and doctoral student Paul Rama discussed their efforts to determine whether popular video games p

August 19, 2009 – After a big earthquake, it’s key to keep the water system afloat. Water is necessary for life, and it fights the fires that often accompany such disasters. UC Irvine engineers plan to outfit the local water system with sensors that will alert officials wh

August 17, 2009 – A lunchtime audience last week became acquainted with two more SURF-IT research projects as the summer seminar series continued. Dmitri Kalashnikov, assistant adjunct professor of computer science and researcher on the NSF-funded ResCUE emergency management pro

August 05, 2009 – Information technology was front and center this week in the SURF-IT Summer Lunchtime Seminar Series presentations. From online research resources to Web 2.0-powered healthcare-delivery systems, presenters Julia Gelfand and Mark Bachman demonstrated the higher

July 31, 2009 – Biomedical engineering student Bryce Kubo is creating microfluidic platforms for biomedical testing on plastic CDs, moving tiny particles around using valving, metering and dielectrophoresis techniques. Isaac Mahgrefteh, computer science major, is developing tool

July 29, 2009 – The CALIT2 Advisory Board welcomed new members last week when the group came together for its semi-annual meeting. The 16-person board meets by way of teleconference in January and in person at the end of July, alternating between the two division locations. This

July 22, 2009 – Ten million people around the world compete online in World of Warcraft, the extraordinarily popular, multiplayer role-playing fantasy game developed by local company Blizzard Entertainment. Fifteen years after its debut, the game’s reach extends far beyond the W

July 16, 2009 – Did you know: • The first international guidelines to address the protection of human research subjects were developed in response to crimes committed by the Nazis during World War II? • Fractals – geometrical structures whose shape appears the same regardless of

July 09, 2009 – A new study published in The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review challenges the traditional view that patents foster innovation, suggesting instead that patents may harm new technology, economic activity and societal wealth.  These results may have importa

July 08, 2009 – A SURF-IT faculty mentor joined the program’s co-director in leading off the research program’s summer lunchtime seminar series this week. The seminars, presented weekly or biweekly during the 10-weeks of the multidisciplinary research fellowship program, give pa