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June 28, 2013 – G.P. Li vividly remembers his family being the first in his Taiwanese neighborhood to buy a television set so they could watch the Americans land on the moon. At 13, he was impressed and inspired. “America was the land of opportunity, so far ahead than any other

June 28, 2013 – Irvine, Calif., June 25, 2013 – SRCH2 Inc., a search-software company founded by UC Irvine computer science professor Chen Li, has launched a “Pay It Forward” program under which its products and services are free or deeply discounted for nonprofit and higher edu

June 27, 2013 – On university campuses, summer is often a pretty quiet time. Not so at CALIT2, where two orientations for student summer programs took place on the same day this week. SURF-IT, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology, is now in its

June 24, 2013 – Update: Twitter has matured, its 140 characters morphing from trivial musings into a go-to source for updated emergency info and messaging during disaster events. For the second consecutive year, wildfire rages through Colorado, leaving devastation in its wake. S

June 13, 2013 – Academics, innovators, entrepreneurs and would-be moguls crowded into the CALIT2 Auditorium last week to hear five seasoned pros divulge the finer points of creating  prosperous companies from startup ventures. Now in its eighth year, the semiannual CALIT2 Igniti

May 24, 2013 – Knowledge is power. For researchers at the California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) at CALIT2, knowledge can save power, too. That’s why the center is about to launch a large-scale online survey at UC Irvine. Researchers are hoping to learn more about the be

May 22, 2013 – When it comes to conserving energy and preserving the environment, most of us have good intentions. Our actions, however, often fall short. We’re busy and we don’t like being inconvenienced. The California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) located in the CALIT2

May 21, 2013 – On the West Coast of Africa, fronted by 300 miles of sparkling Atlantic coastline, lies Sierra Leone. Home to lush green forests, tropical grasslands, lazy lagoons, picturesque fishing villages, and a chimpanzee sanctuary, the postcard-pretty country slightly smal

May 20, 2013 – It’s a typically bustling day in the offices of Dr. Naveen Bhandarkar, director of rhinology and sinus surgery at UC Irvine Medical Center. There are sinuses to examine and infections to treat. But in a tiny office tucked into one corner of the clinic, innov

May 20, 2013 – Dr. Brian J.F. Wong, a prominent UC Irvine surgeon, professor, researcher and entrepreneur, has been named the 2013 Clinical Translational Scientist of the Year by UCI’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. Wong, an otolaryngologist/head and neck surg

May 17, 2013 – A group of government officials and professors from Myanmar stopped by CALIT2 this week during a visit to UC Irvine. The delegation, which included the country’s union minister and an advisor from its Ministry of Science and Technology, as well as two professors f

May 17, 2013 – The concept seems a contradiction of the highest order: using raw sewage to make the planet cleaner? It’s true. At the Orange County Sanitation District in Fountain Valley, Calif., methane and other biogases are produced by sewage as it sits in concrete holding ta