Go see it while you can:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/business/23online.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Read the Gabriela Marcu spotlight at the Bren School–SURF-IT gets a shout-out! CONGRATS Gabriela! http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/spotlight/spotlight_marcu.php

The idea that violent video games lead to aggressive behavior sounds, for all its potential truth, a bit like a relic of hysteria from a bygone age (to my ears, anyway). But what if the correspondence between gaming and behavior is true? Would we then be able to develop a video game that could promote altruistic behavior?

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Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. - Peter Borden

Roger at work

Roger Shih’s SURF-IT project this summer involves using “dielectrophoresis” to separate different kinds of cells from each other, particularly neural stem cells from already differing stem cells. (Having purer samples of stem cells would, of course, ultimately benefit research for brain damage and spinal cord injuries, among other projects.)

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The Politics and Aesthetics of Media in East Asia
Faculty Mentor: Professor Jonathan M. Hall, Comparative Literature
Undergraduate Researcher: Tyler Moore 

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Chris has a polymer! 

Polymers are all around you; the word “polymer” simply identifies a chain of monomers, or individual molecules. “Polymerization” is thus the act of chemically creating polymers out of monomers by causing them to link together, a process for which organic chemistry student and SURF-IT fellow Chris Levins has been busy synthesizing catalysts.

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Again, read it while you can!

Read it while you can at the nytimes (for all of you interested in hard-core math or 3-D graphics…)

“Molecular Communication: System Design, Modeling, and Simulations”
Prof. Tatsuya Suda, Computer Science
Undergraduate Researcher: Christina Wong

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