August 17, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 1
You are invited to join the upcoming UC IT Town Hall either via webstream or in person. Date: September 9, 2016 Time: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Agenda UC IT Innovation Program (Tom Andriola, UC CIO) UC BRAID: Collaboration in…
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August 16, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Alexa Rivetti, UCB student intern, UCOP. For universities on the semester system, school starts in just a few days. For those on the quarter system, there’s weeks left. Either way, now is the time to pick up a…
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August 11, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 1
Posted by Karishma Morabia, UCB student intern, UCOP. After graduating from UC Davis with degrees in political science and history, Melissa Jost joined the Department of Clinical Information Systems at the UC Davis Medical Center as an administrative assistant. She…
Read more about Spotlight: UCD’s Melissa Jost – Passionate about Health Informatics and the Half Ironman
August 4, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Karishma Morabia, UCB student intern, UCOP. In high school, Mojgan Amini’s counselor asked her what major she wanted to pursue in college. Amini said maybe art and painting. The counselor responded with silence. Amini then said she liked…
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July 28, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 1
Posted by Thomas Trappler, sr. IT commodity manager, UCOP. Have you been searching for the perfect tool to communicate and collaborate with geographically dispersed colleagues? The new UC wide Zoom agreement has just what you need. What is Zoom? Zoom…
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July 26, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Tom Andriola, UC CIO. Apps for Ag hackathon contestants pitched judges (I got to be one of them) at the California State Fair in Sacramento on Sunday (July 17). The hackathon was open to anyone in the…
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July 21, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Desiree Silva, IT Communications Officer, UCM. Kent Carpenter has been working in information technology for nearly 20 years, so it’s safe to say he’s seen a lot of changes since he began his career. When Carpenter started his…
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July 19, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Alison Spencer, UCB Student Intern at UCOP. Which is more fragile, digital data or a photo? While many people assume digital is more durable than analog, it is actually the other way around. Say a photo has a…
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July 14, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 1
Posted by Leah Burns, former IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. Born and raised in San Diego, Alexa Rivetti never expected to go to UC Berkeley, but as of May 2016 she is a Cal alum. “Graduating has been bittersweet,” she said….
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July 8, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 1
Posted by Karishma Morabia, UCB student intern, UCOP. Chris Hoffman, Informatics Services Manager in Research IT at UC Berkeley, completed his B.A. at Rice University and his Ph. D. at UC Berkeley, both in anthropology. He did his research on…
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