January 26, 2017 All Articles, Spotlights 0
By Alison Spencer, UCB student intern, UCOP. There’s a saying among IT staff at UCSF: “I cure cancer – very indirectly.” Erik Wieland, an application manager, said this attitude is his favorite thing about working at the campus. “I love the…
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January 24, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Susan Chesley Perry, Head of Digital Initiatives, University Library, UC Santa Cruz. As Library Collections and services increasingly move online, the lines between traditional library and IT roles are starting to blur. This past summer, during the UC Computing…
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January 17, 2017 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
You’re invited to the upcoming UC IT Town Hall, featuring Dr. Laura Esserman, MD/MBA, UCSF; as well as UC CIO Tom Andriola and ANR CIO Gabe Youtsey. Join via webstream or in person – details below. Date: January 19, 2017…
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January 12, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Wayne J. Fields, Assistant Director, Student Affairs IT, UCI. UC Irvine was already a leader in eSports, with a highly decorated team at the top of the NACC League of Legends, when College Magazine ranked it the number one…
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January 5, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Ola Popoola, Director of Reporting and Analytics, UCOP. The UC Information Center was launched in March 2015 by the Office of Institutional Research and Academic Planning (IRAP). The burgeoning demand for easy access to data – in part…
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December 13, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
Don’t miss the upcoming UC IT Town Hall, January 19, 10 – 11:00 a.m. Special guest Laura Esserman, M.D./M.B.A, will speak on the power of technology to transform health care. Dr. Esserman is a surgeon, breast cancer oncology specialist, and…
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December 6, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis, Chief of Staff, Information Technology Services, UCOP. Network engineers travel to far-flung corners of the world to help build up research and education networks in places like Guam, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka, and Ghana, India, and Ecuador….
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December 1, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Alison Spencer, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. Drones have emerged in recent years as an exciting information-gathering tool. At UC Merced’s newly established UC Center of Excellence on Unmanned Aircraft Systems Safety, director Brandon Stark and his team…
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November 29, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Sherri Berger, Product Manager, California Digital Library (UCOP). The ten libraries of the University of California system hold a dazzling array of unique materials, including photographs, newspapers, maps, oral histories, films, ephemera, and more. Documents of world events and…
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November 22, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
Date: November 30, 2016 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Description: How do you manage giving students the ability to print documents in support of instruction without monitoring the academic purpose of every page printed? Originally we solved this by allowing them…
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