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April 10, 2009 – A “smart grid” that could efficiently and reliably provide electricity to power-hungry Southern California moved one step closer to reality this week. One hundred fifty researchers, faculty and students from industry, government and academia convened at CALIT2 a

April 09, 2009 – When it was first introduced, wireless communication required a supporting infrastructure – a cell tower, a router connected to a wired network or an access point on a local area network. The introduction of MANETs (Mobile Ad hoc NETworks) eliminated that constr

April 08, 2009 – UCI researchers with a wide range of wireless technology interests gathered recently for a CALIT2 brainstorming workshop. In five-minute lightening presentations, more than a dozen faculty members shared their expertise and current research. Their projects run t

March 30, 2009 – SURF-IT, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology, is now accepting applications from UCI undergraduate students who want to gain hands-on experience in IT-related research. Fifteen multidisciplinary summer research projects are ava

March 17, 2009 – The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology (SURF-IT), a collaboration between CALIT2 and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), provides a unique 10-week summer research opportunity for UCI undergraduates to become i

March 10, 2009 – Two UCI students working in CALIT2’s Carl Zeiss Center of Excellence won awards at this year’s Southern California Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis Symposium held at UCLA. The awards were given for the best student platform presentation and the bes

February 27, 2009 – This summer CALIT2 will again offer faculty members an opportunity to have undergraduate researchers in mentored projects. The SURF-IT program (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Information Technologies) will award as many as 10 UCI students a $3,5

January 28, 2009 – Researchers at UC Irvine’s Institute of Transportation Studies are basking in the glow of recent media attention that validates something they’ve known all along. Several online publications, including PhysOrg, Slashdot, Network World, Science Daily and Scienc

January 09, 2009 – CALIT2@UCI celebrated the opening of its newest lab, BiON, yesterday with an Open House attended by more than 125 people from the campus and surrounding business community. BiON, the Bio-Organic Nanofabrication Facility, is a 4,000-square-foot, class-1,000 cle

January 06, 2009 – Since 2005, the Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall (HIPerWall) in CALIT2’s Visualization Lab has transformed enormous research datasets into super-high-resolution images. Now, a licensing agreement makes the custom display-wall software available to

December 15, 2008 – Irvine, Calif., Dec. 15, 2008 — CALIT2 researchers want to help doctors make house calls again, with one small, 21st-century modification. The doctor’s familiar black bag is being replaced with a software package that brings healthcare providers into pa

December 12, 2008 – Irvine, Calif., Nov. 12, 2008 — To some, a mile is simply a measurement. To Joanne Tawfilis, it represents an attempt to bring people in the world closer to one another. Tawfilis, a former U.N. executive, founded and directs the Art Miles Mural Project,