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October 20, 2009 You put your right foot in, You put your right foot out. You put your right foot in And you shake it all about. The Hokey Pokey, with its whimsical cadence and simple movements, beckons even the most reluctant would-be dancers to join in the fun. While the joys of par

October 15, 2009 – Douglas C. Wallace, a pioneering UC Irvine genetics researcher whose achievements in mitochondrial medicine are leading to new treatments for chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes, has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine. Election to the

October 13, 2009 – Three CALIT2-affiliated professors have been recognized recently for compelling research accomplishments. A paper written by Carter Butts, associate professor of sociology, appeared in a special issue of Science magazine focused on network analysis. The work h

September 15, 2009 – CALIT2 will play a key role in a new partnership that will establish the UC Irvine campus as a living laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency. The Advanced Power & Energy Program at The Henry Samueli School of  Engineering has been awarded

August 20, 2009 – The last SURF-IT lunchtime seminar of the summer featured the program’s two remaining student-staffed research projects. First, education professor Mark Warschauer and doctoral student Paul Rama discussed their efforts to determine whether popular video games p

August 19, 2009 – After a big earthquake, it’s key to keep the water system afloat. Water is necessary for life, and it fights the fires that often accompany such disasters. UC Irvine engineers plan to outfit the local water system with sensors that will alert officials wh

August 17, 2009 – A lunchtime audience last week became acquainted with two more SURF-IT research projects as the summer seminar series continued. Dmitri Kalashnikov, assistant adjunct professor of computer science and researcher on the NSF-funded ResCUE emergency management pro

August 05, 2009 – Information technology was front and center this week in the SURF-IT Summer Lunchtime Seminar Series presentations. From online research resources to Web 2.0-powered healthcare-delivery systems, presenters Julia Gelfand and Mark Bachman demonstrated the higher

July 31, 2009 – Biomedical engineering student Bryce Kubo is creating microfluidic platforms for biomedical testing on plastic CDs, moving tiny particles around using valving, metering and dielectrophoresis techniques. Isaac Mahgrefteh, computer science major, is developing tool

July 29, 2009 – The CALIT2 Advisory Board welcomed new members last week when the group came together for its semi-annual meeting. The 16-person board meets by way of teleconference in January and in person at the end of July, alternating between the two division locations. This

July 22, 2009 – Ten million people around the world compete online in World of Warcraft, the extraordinarily popular, multiplayer role-playing fantasy game developed by local company Blizzard Entertainment. Fifteen years after its debut, the game’s reach extends far beyond the W

July 16, 2009 – Did you know: • The first international guidelines to address the protection of human research subjects were developed in response to crimes committed by the Nazis during World War II? • Fractals – geometrical structures whose shape appears the same regardless of