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October 26, 2010 – Nine UCI undergraduate students recount their SURF-IT summer research experiences. Ana Maria Sanchez: I am especially interested in what role online game worlds play in children’s lives and the benefits there may be for spending a lot of time there. I like to

October 20, 2010 – In conjunction with its effort to establish a center for applied research on energy efficiency in plug-load appliances, CALIT2 is seeking proposals for evaluation by the California Energy Commission. Proposals should focus on energy efficiency in electronic de

October 19, 2010 – UC Irvine’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), a CALIT2 partner, has issued its fall call for proposals. UCI undergraduates from all disciplines who are conducting research projects or creative activities under the guidance of faculty a

October 18, 2010 – UCI chemists, physicists, materials scientists, biologists and medical researchers heaved a collective sigh of relief last week as a new scanning electron microscope/focused ion beam was installed in the microscopy lab at CALIT2. The Quanta 3D FEG 600, manufac

October 12, 2010 CALIT2-affiliated computer science professors Chen Li and Xiaohui Xie have been awarded a $371,000 two-year grant from the National Institute of Health to develop novel  methods for searching biomedical literature. The MEDLINE database, complied by the United States N

October 12, 2010 – “Protecting IP” was the focus of the debut lecture last Friday in the CALIT2 TechPortal Entrepreneur Series. The series, co-sponsored by UCI Extension, OCTANe@UCI and the Office of Technology Alliances, is directed at researchers interested in launching new bu

September 30, 2010 – UC Irvine faculty members affiliated with CALIT2 continue to garner recognition, grants and awards. Associate Professor of Sociology Carter Butts was one of five UC Irvine sociologists honored by the American Sociological Association at its 2010 annual meeti

September 22, 2010 – CALIT2 academic affiliate Mizuko “Mimi” Ito recently was appointed the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at UC Irvine. A recognized expert in the field of digital media and learning, Ito holds appoi

August 31, 2010 – UC Irvine, along with five other universities, has received a $10 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Expeditions in Computing grant to develop robust  software for computing with unreliable, but energy-efficient nanoscale computer components. The Irvine

August 19, 2010 – SURF-IT students have labored in their mentors’ labs this summer, learning the finer points of hands-on research along the way. But at Tuesday’s SURF-IT summer seminar, they got a lesson in real-world economics from entrepreneur Jeff Greenberg, who discussed wa

August 13, 2010 – Electronic medical records systems transform patient charts into legible, accessible and easy-to-share files. But a 2009 study found that only 1.5 percent of U.S. hospitals were using these systems. In the remaining 97.5 percent of hospitals, it can take as lon

August 12, 2010 – More than half of all stroke patients suffer chronic motor impairment, with a large percentage experiencing difficulty in using their hand and arm.  CALIT2 affiliate David Reinkensmeyer, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, will use a five-year, $1.5