June 05, 2014 – Innovation and entrepreneurship: oft-mentioned buzzwords, heard more and more frequently in university settings. UC Irvine is no exception and with good reason. Ongoing programs, new campus-wide initiatives and last week, a standing-room only crowd at CALIT2’s Ig

May 30, 2014 – Orange County business icon Donald Beall held an informal advice session with about 75 UC Irvine Multidisciplinary Design Program students and faculty last week in the CALIT2 auditorium. The entrepreneur, philanthropist and retired Rockwell chairman/CEO urged the

May 30, 2014 – Designing an iPad game that teaches children the basics of the human digestive system doesn’t sound terribly glamorous. But for Cathy Tran, a UC Irvine fourth-year doctoral student in the School of Education, who leads the project under the auspices of UCI’s Multi

May 16, 2014 – Said Shokair was supposed to be a doctor. His high school test scores qualified him for medical school, which he entered at age 17 in his native Syria. Six months later, though, after chatting with an uncle who was a pediatric cardiologist at UCLA, he opted to com