August 15, 2014 – Can technology benefit those with autism? UCI professor Gillian Hayes thinks it can and does. Hayes, whose primary academic appointment is in informatics (she also has appointments in education and pediatrics) told this week’s SURF-IT seminar series lunchtime a

August 01, 2014 – For some, it was a terrifying first experience; for others, the repetition of a task they’d faced before. But for all 10 of this year’s SURF-IT undergraduate students, who this week presented their research progress to-date, it was a practice session designed t

July 17, 2014 – The technology-in-medicine theme begun last week by Dr. Warren Wiechmann continued this week with Tuesday’s SURF-IT symposium, which featured Julie Youm, research director of instructional technologies at UCI’s School of Medicine. Youm is testing the school’s iMe

July 11, 2014 – Modern medicine is an anomaly when it comes to technology. Doctors conduct minimally invasive surgeries from remote locations using robots, but most offices and clinics have no online presence for patients to make appointments, ask follow-up questions or check te