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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

Aug. 30, 2016 – SURF IoT Fellows delivered their final project presentations at CALIT2, Thursday, Aug. 25. The nine UC Irvine undergraduates marked the culmination of a unique ten-week summer research program that paired them with faculty mentors to conduct hands-on research rel

Aug. 16, 2016 – Aditi Majumder, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at UC Irvine, spoke to SURFIoT Fellows and guests Thursday at CALIT2. Majumder’s presentation outlined the progress being made at UCI’s iGravi (Interactive Graphics and Visualization Lab). iGravi h

Aug. 09, 2016 – Washington, DC, August 9, 2016 – Nearly 90 percent of home Internet modems, routers and other equipment that deliver broadband to millions of American consumers purchased in 2015 met rigorous new energy efficiency standards, according to a new report by ind

Aug. 04, 2016 – In Uganda, in 1952, the virus known as Zika was first identified in humans. Until recently, the virus that produces flu-like symptoms, low-grade fever and headache was not considered a serious health risk. However, in 2015, after a Zika outbreak in Brazil, the Wo

Jul. 29, 2016 – The 2016 SURF- IoT(Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the Internet of Things) fellows met at CALIT2 this week to mark the halfway point in the 10-week program. Students presented their individual projects, discussed their findings and answered questions

Jun. 28, 2016 – Ten undergraduate students have been selected to participate in the 2016 SURF- IoT(Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the Internet of Things). The program, in its twelfth year, is a 10-week program for UCI undergraduates, designed to immerse students in

Jun. 22, 2016 – CALIT2 Irvine Division Director G.P Li spoke with a group of tech startup and industry experts this week at CALIT2 to discuss opportunities to fund, build and bring to market IoT (Internet of Things) solutions by creating an IoT Focus Leading Center in Orange Cou

Jun. 21, 2016 – The California Energy Commission has awarded $785,124 to the California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) at UC Irvine to develop a new tool to increase utilization of low-power modes in computers. The project will be led by Joy Pixley, CalPlug social sciences