Features

May 24, 2012 – Nineteen-ninety-seven marked the beginning of a long national nightmare for a wide swath of southern Australia. The area, which includes the city of Melbourne, experienced the last significant rainfall it would see for more than a decade. The parched region sweate

May 22, 2012 – U.S. Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, who represents California’s 47th congressional district, sponsored a standing-room-only federal grants workshop at CALIT2 yesterday.  Focused on obtaining funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the worksh

May 18, 2012 – Update 05.23.12: Yesterday, Wotz was awarded the $15,000 grand prize in the student category by the competition’s expert panel of judges. Voting for the popular choice award continues through May 31 at http://appsforenergy.challenge.gov/submissions/7998-wotz

May 17, 2012 – Working at the micro- and nanoscale, graduate students in UC Irvine’s LifeChips program combine elements of biology, engineering, physical sciences and medicine to produce pioneering healthcare technologies.  The program is funded by the National Science Foundatio

May 16, 2012 – CALIT2’s Green IT Lab has gone gold. Lab director Bill Tomlinson and his doctoral student Joel Ross were both recognized by UC Irvine’s Academic Senate Council on Student Experience for outstanding accomplishments in undergraduate education. Tomlinson, associate p

May 04, 2012 – Co-workers don’t have to be hundreds of miles apart to benefit from interactive collaborative tools. Sometimes, colleagues in the same room need to contribute input on a project simultaneously. Computer science associate professor Aditi Majumder is developing tech

May 04, 2012 – Today’s children and teens, who have been described as Generation I or “digital natives,” were born after the Internet had become a staple in our lives. They grew up with Google, Facebook, email and texting, not to mention digital cameras, online gaming and instan

May 03, 2012 – UC Irvine employee Gay Garton’s only grandchild lives more than 7,500 miles away, near Tel Aviv, Israel. The proud grandma, however, sees six-month-old Ilai weekly. Every Sunday morning she and her husband, Rick, watch, listen and interact with the cherubic baby a

April 13, 2012 – How can UC Irvine students help California improve energy efficiency while earning class credit? By participating in a research team for CalPlug – the California Plug Load Research Center – housed in the CALIT2 Building. A group of about 20 interested students a

April 02, 2012 – A state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction (XRD) system installed last week in CALIT2’s Microscopy Center (part of LEXI, the Laboratory for Electron and X-ray Instrumentation), continues UCI’s march toward first-class materials characterization capabilities. The Rigak

March 29, 2012 – Drinking water standards, regulatory processes, treatment technologies and detection of carcinogens are just a few of the topics discussed today as almost 150 environmental chemists and others with an interest in drinking water gathered in the CALIT2 Auditorium

February 16, 2012 – At the age of 19, Amy Purdy lost the lower half of both legs due to a near-death battle with bacterial meningitis.  Now, eleven years later, the double amputee has conquered professional snowboarding with back-to-back world cup adaptive female champion titles