Author Archive: UC Tech News

Team of UCLA Health Women Led the Rapid Shift to Telehealth

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By Lindsay Brooker. When the pandemic took the medical community by surprise in early 2020, the UCLA Health system quickly pivoted to moving as many patients as possible into virtual settings. Almost overnight, many primary care check-ins, surgical follow-ups, and…
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To Help Diversify STEM Faculty, Berkeley-led Model Goes National

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By Gretchen Kell. If underrepresented groups make up 30% of the increasingly diverse U.S. population, why do they represent less than 5% of the faculty nationwide, less than 6% of postdoctoral scholars and only about 10% of Ph.D. students in…
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Moving UCPath from a Managed Hosting Service to the AWS Cloud

By John Ruzicka. Last July, UC’s largest-ever business transformation initiative concluded, with all UC locations now live in a single payroll system called UCPath. This was a multi-year project involving teams at the UC Office of the President (UCOP)…
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Watch “Accessibility Is for Everyone” Recording

Accessibility is for Everyone!, 2021 Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Hosted by the UC Electronic Accessibility Committee, May 20, 2021

There was a big turnout for “Accessibility Is for Everyone,” the 2021 Global Accessibility Awareness Day webinar. The webinar recording is now available. Watch six fast-paced sessions about things you can do to make UC’s online environment more welcoming…
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UCD Health Creates Dashboard to Consolidate COVID Vaccination Information

By Kristen Godfrey. The vaccination effort is a national emergency. UC Davis Health needed to manage its response in a data-driven way to ensure that we identified and targeted our efforts to those most vulnerable to contracting COVID-19. To achieve…
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Register: UCSB Mind and Machine Intelligence Summit, June 1-3

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Don’t miss the 2021 Mind and Machine Intelligence Summit, hosted by UC Santa Barbara, June 1-3, 2021. This virtual event will examine state-of-the-art AI in healthcare, as well as ways that AI can be used/misused in this setting. This…
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Project Genesis Is Laying the Groundwork for UCR’s Digital Transformation

Project Genesis: Taking UC Riverside to Infin-IT and Beyond

By Alexandra Chrystal. The abrupt global shift to remote teaching and working in response to the coronavirus pandemic caused the Chronicle of Higher Education to postulate that “the institutions that will thrive in the future will be the ones that…
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UCD Hosts Information Security Symposium, June 15-16

UC Davis Information Security Symposium, June 15-16, 2021, Adapt

Don’t miss the 10th biennial Information Security Symposium virtual event, June 15-16, 2021, presented by UC Davis. Security and technology professionals and administrators from throughout the University of California, California Community Colleges, California State Universities, and state agencies, are…
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