November 22, 2013 – In 2006, soon after arriving at UC Irvine, a new assistant professor was introduced to an engineering school administrator who asked what her major was. “I’m not an undergrad,” the new hire said politely. “Oh, you’re here for the graduate program?” inquired t

November 19, 2013 – When a group of UC Irvine students began creating a mobile game to teach children the mechanisms of human digestion, they never imagined how much the kids would ultimately teach them. They also had no way of knowing the widespread reverberations their experie

October 31, 2013 – A group of state legislators visited CALIT2 yesterday to become better acquainted with research underway at UC Irvine and learn more about the university’s relationships with Orange County’s life science community. The 10 Assembly members toured local healthca

October 30, 2013 – Over the past couple of decades, research into human biology has revealed some startling information. It turns out, that in addition to our 10 trillion human cells, we are hosts to one hundred trillion microbial cells which greatly contribute to our health (or