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July 15, 2025 Samueli School Dean Magnus Egerstedt announced that the Engineering+ Society Institute will focus on “Engineering AI for Society” with Athina Markopoulou as the institute’s inaugural director. Markopoulou is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and

July 10, 2025 By examining squid skin cells three-dimensionally, a University of California, Irvine-led team has unveiled the structures responsible for the creatures’ ability to dynamically change their appearance from transparent to arbitrarily colored states. The group of scientist

July 9, 2025 Most AI chatbots feel like a goldfish. You have a conversation, maybe even a deep one, and the next time you interact, it’s as if you never met. No memory, no continuity, just a blank slate. Bill Tomlinson, a professor at UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and

Professor Athina Markopoulou has been selected as the next director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at UC Irvine effective July 1.

What if your smartwatch could send an alert when you’ve had too much to drink, warning you not to get behind the wheel of a car and drive? This is exactly the type of application researchers from UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) are working to

From heat pump adoption to clean hydrogen to net zero energy accessory dwelling units, the CalPlug/ITAC Earth Day workshop ran the gamut of energy efficiency solutions. The April 22 event grabbed the interest of 60 plus registrants with interactions between the speakers and audience m

Last week, a ribbon-cutting ceremony and luncheon celebrated two long-awaited milestones for UC Irvine’s Connected Learning Lab (CLL): approval as a full Organized Research Unit (ORU) and completion of a new 1250 square-foot collaborative workspace in the CALIT2 Building.

Technological changes are coming sooner rather than later, and in the near future, according to the quantum technology education organization called Qureca, society will begin to see the effects of the quantum revolution.

The UC Irvine SMART Industrial Training and Assessment Center has been busy this year.

October brought the 24th installment of the semiannual CalPlug Workshop.

UC Irvine just launched a new class that gives undergraduate engineering students a rare opportunity to learn clean room skills.

Recently, student participants in CALIT2’s Make a Difference Opportunity (MADO) program ended their experiences by sharing with others what they gained from participating in the two-quarter opportunity.