March 10, 2009 – Two UCI students working in CALIT2’s Carl Zeiss Center of Excellence won awards at this year’s Southern California Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis Symposium held at UCLA. The awards were given for the best student platform presentation and the bes

February 27, 2009 – This summer CALIT2 will again offer faculty members an opportunity to have undergraduate researchers in mentored projects. The SURF-IT program (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Information Technologies) will award as many as 10 UCI students a $3,5

January 28, 2009 – Researchers at UC Irvine’s Institute of Transportation Studies are basking in the glow of recent media attention that validates something they’ve known all along. Several online publications, including PhysOrg, Slashdot, Network World, Science Daily and Scienc

January 09, 2009 – CALIT2@UCI celebrated the opening of its newest lab, BiON, yesterday with an Open House attended by more than 125 people from the campus and surrounding business community. BiON, the Bio-Organic Nanofabrication Facility, is a 4,000-square-foot, class-1,000 cle

January 06, 2009 – Since 2005, the Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall (HIPerWall) in CALIT2’s Visualization Lab has transformed enormous research datasets into super-high-resolution images. Now, a licensing agreement makes the custom display-wall software available to

December 15, 2008 – Irvine, Calif., Dec. 15, 2008 — CALIT2 researchers want to help doctors make house calls again, with one small, 21st-century modification. The doctor’s familiar black bag is being replaced with a software package that brings healthcare providers into pa

December 12, 2008 – Irvine, Calif., Nov. 12, 2008 — To some, a mile is simply a measurement. To Joanne Tawfilis, it represents an attempt to bring people in the world closer to one another. Tawfilis, a former U.N. executive, founded and directs the Art Miles Mural Project,

November 24, 2008 – If you can’t make it on “Dancing with the Stars,” try dancing with technology. Visitors to the UC Irvine division of CALIT2 had the opportunity to move to the beat with performers projected on video screens – or create their own choreography – during Dance-IT

November 20, 2008 – Irvine, Calif., Nov. 20, 2008 — Most of the 125 people who attended H2Ology, the Igniting Technology event held this week at the UC Irvine division of CALIT2, might have been aware that a serious global water crisis is afoot. After watching the 15-minut

November 13, 2008 – On a visit sponsored by the British Consulate, materials scientist Valerie Randle spent three days at CALIT2 working with graduate students to enhance their understanding of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). She concluded the visit by giving a public s