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

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 – 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