Features

August 24, 2011- Flexible and reconfigurable wireless systems are the future of telecommunications, according to last week’s SURF-IT seminar speaker, who gave his CALIT2 audience a sneak peek at some innovative offerings under development. To optimize often-shrinking resources, said K

August 12, 2011 – A UC Irvine materials scientist saved the day for a SURF-IT lunchtime-seminar audience. Chemical engineering and materials science professor Albert Yee, who also happens to be CALIT2’s former director, was planning to listen to this week’s scheduled talk about

August 08, 2011 – Employees who spend their days juggling multiple demands can take comfort knowing they’re part of a burgeoning trend. Multitasking has become the norm in today’s office environments. When informatics professor Gloria Mark found herself struggling to stay abreas

August 05, 2011 – Miles Tomlinson is only a toddler but he already has a virtual green thumb. He has learned that plants need water from clouds and light from the sun, and that their pollen is carried from plant to plant by bees. Miles can thank his parents for his gardening pro

August 02, 2011- This summer’s 11 SURF-IT undergraduate students successfully navigated a stressful rite of passage last week as they presented results from the first half of their research to an audience of fellow participants and CALIT2 staff. For many of them, it was their fi

July 15, 2011 – Featured at this week’s SURF-IT seminar series: voices from the past. For the first time in the program’s seven-year history, a group of SURF-IT (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology) alumni were asked back to share their experience

July 11, 2011 – Phase one of CALIT2’s newest undergraduate research program came to a close with the end of the academic year, but many of the 17 multidisciplinary teams are hard at work this summer on projects in the areas of energy, environment, healthcare and culture. The inn

July 05, 2011 – Rigged with motion capture markers, Mary Verdi-Fletcher, founding artistic director of the Dancing Wheels Company & School, participates in dance science research conducted by UCI’s Mark Tomasic. (Video by Kerrin Piche Serna, University Communications) Mark T

June 30, 2011 – The term “technology education” used to conjure up images of students seated at rows of computers in an outdated lab. No longer. Gillian Hayes, assistant informatics professor and mentor to SURF-IT Fellow Rachel Ulgado, kicked off the SURF-IT lunchtime seminar se

June 29, 2011 – UC Irvine is taking a giant step closer to its goal of carbon neutrality by retrofitting most campus laboratory buildings, including CALIT2, with a sensor system that saves energy and maintains indoor air quality. The Aircuity OptiNet system is a network of air-s

June 29, 2011 – CALIT2 is separated by only two degrees from the U.S. White House. Robert W. Conn, president of The Kavli Foundation, is a founding member of the CALIT2 Advisory Board, which held its annual retreat last week at the UC Irvine division. Conn, who attended that mee

June 23, 2011 – Nine hardworking undergraduate students got their first taste of summer this week but they weren’t sunning on the beach or waiting tables. Rather, they were attending an orientation for SURF-IT, a full-time, 10-week undergraduate research program that allows them