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February 09, 2012 – The California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) attracted nearly 60 industry, government and academic experts to its inaugural workshop last week in the CALIT2 Building. The one-day workshop sought to build collaborations aimed at the improvement and adopt

February 08, 2012 – Garnet Hertz’s OutRun video-gaming vehicle has made quite the journey – from a lab in the CALIT2 Building to the pages of this month’s Popular Science magazine. CALIT2 academic associate Hertz, an artist in residence and research scientist in the Department o

February 06, 2012 – A new ”extreme high resolution” scanning electron microscope (SEM) that provides sub-nanometer imaging capability was installed last month in the CALIT2 Microscopy Center. The center is part of UCI’s materials characterization user facility, the Laboratory fo

January 31, 2012 – Results of a new study by researchers from the University of California, Irvine and the University of Kansas suggest that, contrary to popular belief, greater amounts of innovation, productivity and social wealth may occur when infringers are simply required t

January 31, 2012 – Engineering professor and CALIT2 academic affiliate Kumar Wickramasinghe knows a thing or two about creating innovative laboratory tools. After all, he developed the vibrating mode atomic force microscope, as well as a variety of probes and tips, used in labs

January 20, 2012 – UC Irvine physics associate professor Philip Collins specializes in building tiny electronic circuits at the nanoscale – devices a fraction the size of a wavelength of light. These circuits aren’t visible to the naked eye; they can only be detected with high-p

January 17, 2012 – TechPortal has a new tenant – early this month, biomedical device startup Praxis Biosciences LLC became the fifth company to move into the CALIT2 technology/business incubator. The new firm, founded in August 2010, is based on research conducted by several UC

December 16, 2011 – With CALIT2 as a primary sponsor and venue, the IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing & Applications (SOCA 2011) had a successful three day run at UC Irvine. The conference provided an international forum for researchers from multipl

December 13, 2011 – It’s the holiday season, and much to the delight of economists, commerce is booming. But most shoppers are probably unaware that the products they purchase at the mall could be altering the Brazilian rainforest or increasing deforestation in Sumatra. CALIT2 a

December 05, 2011 – In 1948, the U.S. government, for the first time, took steps to manage water pollution by adopting the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. A long list of amendments followed in 1972, and again in 1977, and the policy became known as the Clean Water Act. Thes

November 22, 2011 – CALIT2 faculty affiliate Bill Cooper, civil and environmental engineering professor, has been elected a 2011 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The world’s largest general scientific society, AAAS is dedicated to advanci

November 21, 2011 – The technology itself may be too small to see but the audience at this month’s Igniting Technology event at CALIT2 certainly wanted to hear about it. “Micro/nanotechnology: The Human Impact,” drew more than 100 people who learned of ongoing research in the fi