Features

May 05, 2010 – “If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s fourth largest,” announces a popular video circulating on YouTube. Titled “Social Media Revolution,” it touts statistics to showcase the growing impact of social media. More and more people are using the vast co

May 03, 2010 – CALIT2 academic affiliates are amassing grants, honors and awards. In April, two affiliates got good news. Pediatric neurologist Dr. Ira Lott received a five-year, $2.4 million National Institutes of Health grant to investigate ways to prevent or delay the onset o

April 27, 2010 – Engineering undergraduate Brandon Saller recently won a $3,000 research scholarship from the Microscopy Society of America for his analysis of a titanium alloy and the resulting abstract he submitted to the organization’s upcoming Microscopy & Microanalysis

April 19, 2010 – CALIT2 academic affiliate Abe Lee, a pioneer in micro-  and nano-fluidics technology, and professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical and aerospace engineering at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, has been named the new chair of the Department of B

April 19, 2010 – A program to train scientists to better manage vast, complex datasets, and a center that will transform human mobility through information technology and robotics, have been selected as the first recipients of the Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Research Ignition

April 16, 2010 – U.S. Rep. Grace Napolitano, who represents California’s 38th District, visited UC Irvine April 6 to meet with campus water researchers and participate in an open forum with students who are studying water-related issues. Her visit, an effort to bridge the gap be

April 15, 2010 – A paper written by CALIT2 academic affiliates Homayoun Yousefi’zadeh and Hamid Jafarkhani, professors of electrical engineering and computer science, has received the 2010 Best Paper Award from the IEEE/KICS Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN). “A

April 13, 2010 – More than 120 academics, energy experts, government representatives and members of the business community joined forces at the UC Irvine division of CALIT2 April 1 for a day-long brainstorming session. The focus of the effort was a proposed institute-directed en

March 29, 2010 – China’s Anhui province lies 600 miles south of Beijing and 100 miles west of Shanghai, about 6,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean from Irvine. But when 22 university presidents and educational leaders from the province visited the UCI division of CALIT2 on March

March 12, 2010 – CALIT2 academic affiliate Bill Tomlinson, and his new book, “Greening through IT: Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability,” were featured this week on “Tech Therapy,” a popular podcast produced by the Chronicle for Higher Education. T

March 09, 2010 – Students can now apply for CALIT2’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Information Technology (SURF-IT).  Faculty affiliates have submitted their projects for the ten week program which begins at the end of June.  The program requires a full-time commi

February 24, 2010 – The California Business, Transportation and Housing (BTH) Agency has named CALIT2 partner OCTANe as one of six state “innovation hubs” (iHubs). OCTANe, an Orange County non-profit organization that helps launch new companies and grow existing businesses, was