Features

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

July 03, 2013 – Alcohol consumption is a costly problem in the United States, in terms of both dollars and cents, and the resulting health impacts. In California alone, alcohol-related injuries, illnesses and trauma tops $38 billion annually – the equivalent of $1,000 per reside

June 28, 2013 – A delegation from Taiwan’s National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs) visited CALIT2 yesterday on a fact-finding mission. Irvine division director G.P. Li escorted five research scientists and the group’s international affairs coordinator through CalPlug, t

June 28, 2013 – As doctors and nurses rush through the busy emergency department in a large Southern California hospital, they probably don’t notice the petite young woman with the dark hair and wire-framed glasses standing to the side, scrawling in her notebook. And that’s fine

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