Author Archive: UC Tech News
UC Tech News
June 23, 2021
All Articlescoronavirus, COVID Dashboard, COVID-19, Information Technology, One IT, pandemic, Rita Rosenthal, UC Berkeley, UCB
By Rita Rosenthal. According to We Rate COVID Dashboards, the work of a multi-university assessment team that rates COVID dashboards developed by colleges and universities nationwide, UC Berkeley has achieved an A+ rating. This grade puts us in the…
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UC Tech News
June 16, 2021
All Articlesaccountability, Jonathan Prugh, Kymberly Ainsworth, Milesh Jain, post-mortem, retrospective, Teamwork, Tom Manley, UC San Francisco, UCSF
By Kymberly Ainsworth, Milesh Jain, Tom Manley, and Jonathan Prugh. What Is a Retrospective? Retrospectives are a key ingredient to continual improvement in any work you do as part of a collaborative team. But the reality is that no project…
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UC Tech News
June 16, 2021
All Articlesdiversity, grant, inclusion, National Science Foundation, NSF, professional development, START UP SJV, STEM Teachers Alliance for Regional Tech, Students, UC Merced, UCM, underrepresented
By Leigh Bernacchi. The technology world is punctuated by startups, and UC Merced is “starting up” its own program to invigorate computer science education in the San Joaquin Valley. The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000, two-year grant to support…
Read more about UC Merced Brings NSF ‘Computer Science for All’ Program to Merced Schools
UC Tech News
June 9, 2021
All Articlescoronavirus, COVID-19, Deidre Keeves, Erin Thomas, Heather Hitson, Lindsay Brooker, pandemic, telehealth, UC Los Angeles, UCLA, UCLA Health, UCLA Health IT, Women in Tech
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…
Read more about Team of UCLA Health Women Led the Rapid Shift to Telehealth
UC Tech News
June 9, 2021
All ArticlesCalifornia Alliance, Georgia Tech, Harvard University, National Science Foundation, NSF, science technology engineering mathematics, STEM, UC Berkeley, UCB, University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, University of Washington
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…
Read more about To Help Diversify STEM Faculty, Berkeley-led Model Goes National
UC Tech News
June 9, 2021
All ArticlesData Privacy, Events, Information Security, personal data, Privacy 101 Workshop, UC San Diego, UCSD, UCSD Privacy Office
Learn about privacy laws and how to best protect yourself at the Privacy 101 Online Webinar, presented by the UC San Diego Campus Privacy Office, on June 23, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Register now! This event…
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UC Tech News
June 2, 2021
All ArticlesAmazon Web Services, AWS, AWS Cloud, Cloud Computing, John Ruzicka, Payroll, UC Office of the President, UC Path, UCOP, UCPath
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)…
Read more about Moving UCPath from a Managed Hosting Service to the AWS Cloud
UC Tech News
June 2, 2021
All ArticlesAccessibility, EAC, Events, GAAD, Global Accessibility Day, recording, UC Electronic Accessibility Committee, webinar
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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UC Tech News
June 2, 2021
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Join Women in Tech Health – UCLA (WITH U) for a special guest speaker event with Christie Struckman from Gartner. She will give a talk on “Five Steps to Stop Behaviors that Marginalize Women,” and will reserve time for Q&A…
Read more about June 8 Webinar: Five Steps to Stop Behaviors that Marginalize Women
UC Tech News
May 26, 2021
All Articlescoronavirus, COVID Dashboard, COVID-19, Kristen Godfrey, UC Davis, UC Davis Health, UC Health, UCD, UCDH, vaccines
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…
Read more about UCD Health Creates Dashboard to Consolidate COVID Vaccination Information