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November 19, 2013 – When a group of UC Irvine students began creating a mobile game to teach children the mechanisms of human digestion, they never imagined how much the kids would ultimately teach them. They also had no way of knowing the widespread reverberations their experie

October 31, 2013 – A group of state legislators visited CALIT2 yesterday to become better acquainted with research underway at UC Irvine and learn more about the university’s relationships with Orange County’s life science community. The 10 Assembly members toured local healthca

October 30, 2013 – Over the past couple of decades, research into human biology has revealed some startling information. It turns out, that in addition to our 10 trillion human cells, we are hosts to one hundred trillion microbial cells which greatly contribute to our health (or

October 16, 2013 – For more than 10 years, CALIT2 has been a campus hub for multidisciplinary, IT-enabled research projects. In an effort to bring these “value-added” collaborations to the next level, CALIT2 recently announced expanded services for its academic and industry part

October 01, 2013 – The California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) at CALIT2 is featured prominently in a state energy efficiency report released recently by the California Public Utilities Commission. The Research and Technology Action Plan 2012-2015 reflects priorities that

September 27, 2013 – During his annual visit to catch-up on the latest CALIT2 projects, UCI Chancellor Michael Drake was accompanied by the new Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Howard Gillman. This was Gillman’s first time to the institute, and he and the Chancellor were gi

September 12, 2013 – The American Geophysical Union has awarded UC Irvine Distinguished Professor Soroosh Sorooshian the 2013 Horton Medal for his outstanding contributions to hydrology. “I am humbled by this honor,” says Sorooshian, director of UCI’s Center for Hydrometeorology

August 30, 2013 – The days are getting shorter, Labor Day is approaching and a new academic year is looming. And yesterday, in the CALIT2 Building, there was another irrefutable indication that summer is coming to an end. The 2013 SURF-IT Fellows wrapped up their 10-week researc

August 23, 2013 – Gillian Hayes is determined to create sustainable change – improvements in technology and society that exist after specific research projects are completed. The associate professor of informatics works at the intersection of education, computer science, health

August 15, 2013 – Some of it is intuitive, other aspects are more complex, but knowledge of research regulations and compliance is essential to anyone entering a lab or conducting an experiment. This year’s seven SURF-IT students are a lot more familiar with the topic after this

August 12, 2013 – Spinal cord injuries are among medicine’s most complex challenges. Last week’s speaker at the SURF-IT lunchtime seminar series shared the progress his research team is making into repairing a particularly vexing form of spinal cord damage. Injuries to the lower

August 07, 2013 – Enric Grustan Gutierrez studies propulsion so maybe it’s not surprising that he’s a force of nature himself. The high-energy mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral candidate designs and microfabricates tiny arrays of electric-propelled thrusters that cou