August 12, 2013 – Spinal cord injuries are among medicine’s most complex challenges. Last week’s speaker at the SURF-IT lunchtime seminar series shared the progress his research team is making into repairing a particularly vexing form of spinal cord damage. Injuries to the lower

August 07, 2013 – CALIT2 affiliate Andrei Shkel, has been recognized with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Exceptional Public Service by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). For the past four years, Shkel has served as program manager of th

August 07, 2013 – Enric Grustan Gutierrez studies propulsion so maybe it’s not surprising that he’s a force of nature himself. The high-energy mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral candidate designs and microfabricates tiny arrays of electric-propelled thrusters that cou

August 01, 2013 – This year’s SURF-IT Fellows have spent five weeks peering into microscopes, writing computer code, analyzing data and synthesizing chemical compounds. For some, this has been their first foray into applied research. This week the seven undergraduates marked a n