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 05, 2010 – Irvine, Calif., May 4, 2010 — In an effort to speed commercialization of university-generated inventions in a moribund economy, UC Irvine is opening a new technology business incubator this week at the campus’s California Institute for Telecommunicatio

May 05, 2010 – UC Irvine graduate student Jesse Baker had just returned from a grueling nine-month journey to Venezuela. It was his fourth trip in five years to Latin America to research the area’s environmental policies for his doctoral dissertation in the Department of Plannin

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