Author Archive: UC Tech News

New Awards Program Announced: UC Tech Awards 2022

Cartoon happy people holding up a trophy

The UC Information Technology Leadership Council (ITLC) is announcing the expanded UC Tech Awards Program for 2022. The program includes the long-standing Sautter Awards, which recognizes team projects, and five new awards to honor individuals or teams for outstanding contributions to technology…
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UC Tech Assembly: Black Leaders Panel Recording

UC Tech Assembly, Black Leaders Panel. February 28, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Photos: L-R: Van Williams, Carmen Robinson, Al Covington, and Charron Andrus

Watch the UC Tech Assembly: Black Leaders Panel, which took place on Monday, February 28. The discussion featured Black members of our UC Tech community from various levels of leadership. Topics ranged from personal stories to allyship advice, to…
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IT Sourcing Achieves $70 M in Benefit for UC

UC Office of the President in Oakland

By Yvonne Tevis. Efforts led by UC Systemwide Procurement’s IT strategic sourcing team achieved almost $70 M in “benefit” for UC in fiscal year 2021 by negotiating contracts with suppliers. That is $25 M more than in the previous year!…
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Register: Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley, March 7-9

Women in Data Science Berkeley logo

Register to attend Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley (WiDS Berkeley), happening March 7-9, 2022. Organized by the UC Berkeley WiDS ambassadors, WiDS Berkeley is part of the annual WiDS Worldwide conference taking place on…
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UC San Diego Leads a $12.25 Million Grant to Improve Epilepsy Treatment

A brain sensor grid to enable treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy.

By Daniel Kane. The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $12.25 million grant to the University of California San Diego to develop and enhance brain-sensing and brain-stimulating platform technologies to enable treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy. The project is led…
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Patient Flow Program at UCD Health: A National Gold Star Winner

Hospital workers help a patient

By Kristen Godfrey. UC Davis Health has won gold stars for improving patient flow! How? By creating a program to address everything from reducing the time doctors spend walking from patient to patient, to decreasing the time patients spend waiting…
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