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January 12, 2011 – A program launched recently by CALIT2 and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program now offers UCI undergraduate students another way to experience hands-on multidisciplinary research. The Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP) will engage undergraduate

January 10, 2011 – In a novel cross-disciplinary endeavor, a social scientist, an electrical engineer and a computer scientist with a bent for biology have entered into a collaboration that could open the door to novel advances in network analysis. Project PI Athina Markopoulou

January 05, 2011 – CALIT2 academic affiliate Stephen Ritchie, director of UC Irvine’s Institute of Transportation Studies, received the prestigious 2010 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers in October at the society’s ann

December 15, 2010 – Wanted: multidisciplinary research proposals in need of funding. Reward: up to $40,000 for projects that will evolve into significant multiyear, multidisciplinary projects or centers. CALIT2, in conjunction with The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and the

December 14, 2010 – On Dec. 7, 2000, California Gov. Gray Davis and former University of California President Richard Atkinson announced the creation of four Institutes for Science & Innovation, including a joint award to UC Irvine and UC San Diego for the formation of CALIT

December 02, 2010 – CALIT2 academic affiliate Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, electrical engineering and computer science and mathematics research professor, has been awarded the Golomb/Chilingar “Giants of Science and Engineering” Medal of Honor by the Russian Academy of Natural Scienc

November 23, 2010 – CALIT2 faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students and staff are invited to participate in a unique video project in honor of the institute’s upcoming 10th anniversary celebration. The experimental, participatory 4K cinema project will capture the diversity o

November 22, 2010 – UCI professor Soroosh Sorooshian, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, recently garnered prestigious international acclaim.  The director of UCI’s Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, and CALIT2 a

November 18, 2010 – An overflow crowd attended this month’s Igniting Technology event in the CALIT2 Building, discovering the latest in energy efficiency research, policy, building codes, incentives and feedback mechanisms. The semiannual event is sponsored by intellectual prope

November 10, 2010 – Raising capital to fund a new business is not something most researchers relish. But it’s a necessary evil, and last week researchers and entrepreneurial hopefuls got some useful tips from seasoned experts when they attended the second event in the CALIT2/Tec

November 02, 2010 – By 2012, Southern California Edison will have installed 5 million “smart” electricity meters in homes and small businesses throughout its 50,000-square-mile territory. The devices, which provide hourly data and can be accessed wirelessly, will enable consumer

October 28, 2010 – CALIT2 collaborator John C. Hemminger has been named UCI vice chancellor for research, effective Nov. 1, 2010. Hemminger has been dean of the School of Physical Sciences since August 2006. A UCI alumnus in chemistry, Hemminger received his Ph.D. in chemical ph