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Feb. 06, 2017 – The University of California, Irvine, in collaboration with the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has launched the Reducing Embodied-Energy & Decreasing Emissions Institute to improve the efficiency and competitiveness

Dec. 14, 2016 – UC Irvine graduate, Austin Marron was the feature speaker at CALIT2’s Fall IoT seminar, held last Wednesday at CALIT2. In his presentation, “Making Blindness Less Blinding with Realtime Video in the IoT,” Marron highlighted a few of the more successful applicatio

Nov. 30, 2016 – In collaboration with UCI department of Urology, CALIT2 has  developed a training tool to improve surgical technique. Minimally invasive surgery has been a major revolution in medicine, but it is not without its own set of risks. In urological procedures an acces

November 25, 2014 – Siblings Gina and Jenae Heitkamp, winners of the 2014 Merage Business Plan Competition, are breaking glass ceilings: first all-female team to win, first sister team to make the finals and first toy idea to take the 11-year-old contest. Their company, iBesties

Nov. 21, 2016 – CalPlug Semiannual Workshop #10 was held Nov. 9, at CALIT2. The California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) was established to improve energy efficiency in the use and design of appliances and consumer electronic devices. This semiannual workshop was created t

Nov. 21, 2016 – Hundreds of brutal, efficient killers crowd Carter Butts’ home, bringing grim death to any unwise enough to venture into range. But fear not. These are magnificent bug-eating plants that populate nearly every continent. Drosera capensis, commonly known as the cap

Nov. 21, 2016 – Tucked into an inconspicuous space in one of UC Irvine’s arts buildings is a potential game-changer: a why-didn’t-I-think-of-that model that its creators hope will redefine environmental awareness and help reduce the world’s surfeit of plastic waste. The ambitiou

Nov. 16, 2016 – According to a report by the Orange County Healthy Aging Initiative, the OC is home to more than 3.1 million people and is the sixth most populous county in the nation. Today, 13.5% of the county’s population is 65 year old and older. This number is projected to

Nov. 15, 2016 – Growing up in rural China, Jian-Guo Zheng’s life was less than idyllic. His beloved father, a well-liked village tailor, died when Jian-Guo was only eight. His mother, a peasant farmer with no formal education, remarried a couple of years later, and although his

Oct. 27, 2016 – Employing a novel sensor made of graphene – a one-atom-thin layer of carbon – UC Irvine researchers have gained new insight into the process of programmed cell death in mitochondria, possibly opening the door to new ways of forcing cancer cells to self-destruct.

Sep. 23, 2016 – The fourth annual Southern California Microbiome Symposium was held Friday at CALIT2. The one-day event, titled, Connections to the Environment and Health, was co-hosted by UCI’s Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, CALIT2 and Initiative for Data Science at

Sep. 22, 2016 – It was standing room only in the CALIT2 auditorium last night as 125 friends, family members and supporters of former Samueli School Dean Nicolaos Alexopoulos joined together to honor him and his wife, Sue Curtis Alexopoulos, after a UC Presidential Chair was nam