The 2017 CITRIS Seed Funding opportunity invites Principal Investigators at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Davis Health System, UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz to apply […]
UC Davis
Job Opportunity: Senior Developer for Crowdsourcing App
Help build awesome web apps like Label This! for CITRIS Social Apps Lab and UC Davis Library as a Senior Developer. Job Title: Manager, Digital […]
2016 Tech for Social Good Projects Awarded at UC Davis
Launched in collaboration between CITRIS at UC Davis, the Blum Center for Developing Economies, the Center for Regional Change, and the Institute for Social Sciences, […]
Students design and demo mobile apps to benefit society at UC Davis
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the second-annual CITRIS Mobile App Challenge at UC Davis: SafeTravel, Eventr, PalMe, & Food Budgt. CITRIS sponsors this […]
Special Education Project Wins 2016 CITRIS Big Ideas competition
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute are honored to announce the top five winners in the IT for Society category of the Big Ideas competition. Selected […]
2016 CITRIS Seed Funding Awards $575,000 to Ten Information Technology Projects
We are delighted to announce the CITRIS Seed Funding Program awards for 2016. This year, 54 highly competitive teams from the four CITRIS campuses at […]
CITRIS Partners with UC Riverside for New Seed Funding Series
We are delighted to announce the inaugural CITRIS & UC Riverside Seed Funding Program and grant awardees. As part of CITRIS’s annual seed funding process, […]
Bahram Ravani named new CITRIS Director at UC Davis
CITRIS is pleased to announce that Bahram Ravani has been appointed CITRIS Director for the UC Davis campus, effective January 1, 2016. With appointments in […]
CITRIS Mobile App Challenge begins January 21
Each spring, teams of students will develop mobile software applications and the business models needed to prepare them for the marketplace in the Mobile App […]
Apply for the 2016 CITRIS Seed Funding Opportunities (Deadline: Jan. 31, 2016)
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is a multi-campus institute within the University of California charged with creating information […]
Finally, a one-stop shop for locating California’s fishes
Reposted from California WaterBlog | Nov. 8, 2015 | By Nick Santos “Where?” The question is foundational to conservation biology and policy. To take a […]
CITRIS Day 2015 Highlights
The inaugural CITRIS Day on October 13, 2015, delivered timely panel discussions and keynote talks, and the videos are now online. Please also enjoy the […]
DOE selects UC Berkeley to lead U.S.-China energy and water consortium
CITRIS Merced campus director Joshua Viers is participating as a campus principal investigator (PI) lead in the new CERC-WET consortium. CITRIS PI Jay Lund is also engaged […]
Join us for CITRIS Day 2015 on October 13
In celebration of our 15th anniversary, we highlight activities core to our mission: bringing innovative methods, insights, and tools from the classroom to the marketplace […]
Big Ideas@Berkeley competition open: student funding competition
The 2015-2016 Big Ideas@Berkeley contest is now open. Big Ideas@Berkeley is an annual contest aimed at providing funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of […]
Five Questions for Dr. Kenneth Loh, New Director of CITRIS at UC Davis
Since his appointment in July 2015 as the new UC Davis campus director for CITRIS, Dr. Kenneth Loh has been actively recruiting students for CITRIS projects, promoting […]
Evaluating California water management options
By Jenny Ta and Joshua Viers | Reposted from http://californiawaterblog.com It seems inevitable that increasing numbers of California farmers will see their claims to surface […]
Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet
A series of ultra-high-speed fiber-optic cables will weave a cluster of West Coast university laboratories and supercomputer centers into a network called the Pacific Research […]
Kenneth Loh appointed new CITRIS Director at UC Davis
CITRIS is delighted to announce that Dr. Kenneth Loh, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, will serve as CITRIS campus director […]
Students Design Mobile Apps With Social Flavor
In the CITRIS Mobile App Challenge, inspiration meets perspiration. It’s a rigorous three-month competition where students design, prototype and pitch ideas for solving pressing societal […]
Adaptable Wins 2015 CITRIS Mobile App Challenge at UC Davis
Launched in 2015, the CITRIS Mobile App Challenge at UC Davis encouraged student teams to develop innovative mobile applications for today’s most pressing societal needs. […]
Resilience Seminar Series Brings Together ITS, TRUST and CITRIS Strengths
Highlighting the cross-disciplinary aspects of resilience, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), and […]
Managing Local Power
Multi-disciplinary study examines how individuals make decisions about electric power use in an effort to match demand and supply in campus micro-grids by Gordy Slack […]
CITRIS Signal Newsletter: Bits Add Up
Dear Friends of CITRIS: CITRIS is a high-performance, high-energy organization, and we are pleased to feature two projects demonstrating this theme. The first confirms a […]