February 4, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Yvonne Tevis, ITS Chief of Staff, UCOP. UCLA’s chief privacy officer, Kent Wada, received the Privacy Leadership in Education Award this fall from the California Information Security Office (COIS). This was the first COIS award for privacy;…
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February 2, 2016 All Articles 0
Posted by Danielle McNamara, Communications Coordinator, Diversity and Engagement – MESA, UCOP. Hands-on learning and project-based learning have become buzz terms in the STEM education world recently. But students involved in the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program have been…
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January 26, 2016 All Articles 0
Posted by Anne Marie Richard, Director of Student Technologies, UC Berkeley. Student Affairs Information Technologies (SAIT) supports UC Berkeley’s core student information systems and provides a wide-variety of other technology services and resources to students and staff. While SAIT shares…
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January 22, 2016 All Articles 0
Date: Thursday, January 28 Time: 3 – 4 p.m. Join Terrell McQuitta, UCOP service desk supervisor, to learn about the tools used when telecommuting including, VPN, cloud computing, and Jabber softphone! Here’s how to join: Log in to readytalk.com…
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January 21, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Leah Burns, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. “I’ve always loved public education,” Jenn Stringer said. “Even though I worked at two private institutions, I studied at public universities.” Stringer is the Associate CIO for Academic Engagement at UC Berkeley…
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January 14, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Brian Buckler, Director of Enterprise Infrastructure at UCI. I’m a Southern California native and have lived in Orange County my entire life. After attending a local community college program in computer support technology, my IT career began in…
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January 12, 2016 All Articles 0
Posted by Brian Tharp, program manager, UCOP. UCOP moved its mainframe work load over four weekends between September 5 and October 11, 2015, with 70% of the applications moving on October 11. The movements were practically flawless, due to the…
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December 16, 2015 All Articles 0
Posted by Annelie Rugg, Humanities CIO, UCLA Center for Digital Humanities. Data is a hot topic, not just in digital humanities, but throughout academia, as well as in medicine, commerce, public policy, etc. ‘Big data’, ‘deep data’, ‘metadata’, ‘data visualization’…
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December 10, 2015 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Leah Burns, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. Donna Yamasaki and her applications team at UCOP make sure their UCOP business partners can successfully use technology to manage systemwide online web services and benefit systems. “We support applications including At…
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December 8, 2015 All Articles 0
Posted by Ghanya Thomas, ITS executive assistant, UCOP. In the spirit of President Napolitano’s UC Oakland Partnership, Information Technology Services at UCOP provided support for the 2nd Annual David E. Glover Legacy Awards. The David E. Glover Center…
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