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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

August 07, 2013 – CALIT2 affiliate Andrei Shkel, has been recognized with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Exceptional Public Service by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). For the past four years, Shkel has served as program manager of th

August 01, 2013 – This year’s SURF-IT Fellows have spent five weeks peering into microscopes, writing computer code, analyzing data and synthesizing chemical compounds. For some, this has been their first foray into applied research. This week the seven undergraduates marked a n

July 30, 2013 – A respected collaborator and steadfast friend of CALIT2 passed away last week. Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, UC Irvine professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, and mathematics, died on July 22, 2013, in College Station, Texas, after a long bat

July 26, 2013 – A couple of old pros returned to the SURF-IT program this week to share their school/work/life expertise with the current group of research Fellows. Jordan Sinclair and Johnway Yih, SURF-IT Fellows in 2008 and 2010 respectively, both went on to master’s programs

July 23, 2013 – A very enthusiastic group of would-be engineers in bright yellow t-shirts has been spotted entering the CALIT2 Building every afternoon for the last two weeks. The middle-school students – nine girls and 22 boys, this week – are participating in the inaugural sum

July 22, 2013 – Projects underway in the California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) at CALIT2 made a favorable impression last week on two visitors who know a thing or two about energy efficiency. The new director of energy efficiency at the Los Angeles Department of Water a

July 19, 2013 – Healthcare costs have been the subject of intense scrutiny and debate. This week’s SURF-IT lunchtime seminar focused on a novel approach to delivering healthcare services to those in need: a free clinic in the Orange County Great Park. Kristin Alix, a UC Irvine b

July 18, 2013 – LEXI – the CALIT2-managed Laboratory for Electron and X-ray Instrumentation – last week celebrated the end of a successful fiscal year with a lunch for lab-affiliated faculty, staff and students. CALIT2 Irvine Director G.P. Li, LEXI operations director Jian-Guo Z

July 12, 2013 – Advances in information technology are creating revolutionary healthcare-delivery options that can improve quality, reduce cost and provide patient empowerment. In CALIT2’s eHealth Collaboratory researchers are developing applications and prototypes utilizing off

July 11, 2013 – The seven undergraduate students in this summer’s SURF-IT (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology) program are learning by doing. They’re rolling up their sleeves and tacking real research projects under the guidance of UC Irvine facul