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October 29, 2012 – Each year U.S. universities create approximately 600 new companies. SRCH², a UC Irvine startup headquartered at CALIT2’s TechPortal incubator, has been nominated as one of the best in the country. The National Council for Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer this mon

October 17, 2012 – Last May, an energy-saving Web/mobile app developed by a CALIT2-affiliated team of UC Irvine students won the $15,000 grand prize in the student category of a national competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. This month, the app – dubbed Wotz –

October 05, 2012 – CALIT2’s eHealth Collaboratory has been selected by Samueli Institute to collaborate on an initiative aimed at developing a set of “smart-home” toolsfor veterans and active duty service people with traumatic brain injuries and other war-related trauma. The new

July 09, 2012 – This year’s SURF-IT undergraduates may just have begun the 10-week program but already they’re learning how their summer research experience can enhance their graduate school application process. The program’s first lunchtime seminar, delivered last Tuesday by pr

September 07, 2012 – The planar multi-projection display in the CALIT2 Visualization Lab had already grabbed the attention of a wide audience of researchers who saw it last March during the IEEE Virtual Reality international conference and exhibition held in Irvine. The display

September 05, 2012 – Last spring, two state-of-the-art materials characterization instruments were delivered to CALIT2’s Microscopy Center, further enhancing UC Irvine’s growing reputation as a one-stop shop for complex materials characterization work. The Microscopy Center is a

August 31, 2012 – Final presentations have been delivered, audience questions asked and answered, and certificates of completion distributed. For the eighth consecutive summer, the 10-week SURF-IT student research program has come to a successful conclusion. SURF-IT – the Summer

August 29, 2012 – Approximately 7 million people in the United States live with physical impairments caused by stroke. The answer to improving their quality of life could lie in something once considered science fiction: robots. In a talk last week at the final event of the SURF

August 17, 2012 – It’s not news that during the last decade, technology has changed the way we read, write and learn. What interests researchers like UC Irvine education professor Mark Warschauer is how those changes are affecting today’s students. “There are a lot of questions

August 13, 2012 – Imagine a simulator capable of computing the ultimate outcome of all of Earth’s myriad messes – disease propagation, political upheaval, global warming and economic instability, to name a few. A European sociologist has done just that and has asked the European

August 03, 2012 – Halfway through their summer research program, this year’s SURF-IT Fellows presented their mid-term project reports. Before the first of the five-minute updates began, however, SURF-IT co-director Said Shokair asked the students for feedback on the summer

August 02, 2012 – Less than three months on the job and the newest California Energy Commissioner is already familiarizing himself with who’s doing what in the area of energy efficiency. In May, Andrew McAllister was appointed to one of five state energy commission seats; in Jul