January 17, 2012 – TechPortal has a new tenant – early this month, biomedical device startup Praxis Biosciences LLC became the fifth company to move into the CALIT2 technology/business incubator. The new firm, founded in August 2010, is based on research conducted by several UC

December 16, 2011 – With CALIT2 as a primary sponsor and venue, the IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing & Applications (SOCA 2011) had a successful three day run at UC Irvine. The conference provided an international forum for researchers from multipl

December 13, 2011 – It’s the holiday season, and much to the delight of economists, commerce is booming. But most shoppers are probably unaware that the products they purchase at the mall could be altering the Brazilian rainforest or increasing deforestation in Sumatra. CALIT2 a

December 05, 2011 – In 1948, the U.S. government, for the first time, took steps to manage water pollution by adopting the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. A long list of amendments followed in 1972, and again in 1977, and the policy became known as the Clean Water Act. Thes