Author Archive: UC Tech News
UC Tech News
July 31, 2015
SpotlightsChristine Kirkpatrick, Susan Shen, UC San Diego, UCSD
Posted by Susan Shen, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. “People think that I’m from the Midwest because of my accent, but I’m actually from San Luis Obispo,” says Christine Kirkpatrick, the Division Director for IT Systems and Services at the
Read more about IT Spotlight: SDSC’s Christine Kirkpatrick, Improving Data and Education
UC Tech News
July 28, 2015
All ArticlesAccessibility, GAAD, Jim Phillips, UC Santa Cruz, UCSC
Posted by Jim Phillips, Director of Learning Technologies and IT Accessibility, UCSC. UC Santa Cruz did an unusual thing this past May. To honor Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we invited members of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR)…
Read more about Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2015
UC Tech News
July 22, 2015
SpotlightsAlexa Rivetti, Todd Van Zandt, UC Merced, UCM
Posted by Lexi Rivetti, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. From help desk support for students, to desktop support for staff, to assisting professors with classroom technology, UC Merced’s Todd Van Zandt is your “go-to” man. As Director of Campus Technologies, Van…
Read more about IT Spotlight: Pioneering Campus Tech with UCM’s Todd Van Zandt
UC Tech News
July 9, 2015
All Articles, SpotlightsAlexa Rivetti, Miriam Posner, UC Los Angeles, UCLA
Posted by Lexi Rivetti, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. What is digital humanities? Dr. Miriam Posner, program coordinator for UCLA’s Center for Digital Humanities (DH) hears this question a lot. “There are a lot of different definitions floating around out there….
Read more about IT Spotlight: UCLA’s Dr. Miriam Posner Combines Art and Data Science
UC Tech News
July 7, 2015
All ArticlesHealthcare, Rachel Sak, UC BRAID
Posted by Rachael Sak, Director, UCBRAID. UC BRAID is a joint effort of the five UC Health campuses that integrates resources and talent across the University of California to accelerate research that improves health. It strives to create an…
Read more about UC BRAID: Greater than the Sum of its Parts
UC Tech News
July 1, 2015
SpotlightsAlexa Rivetti, Nick Dugan, UC Davis, UC Merced, UCD, UCM
Posted by Lexi Rivetti, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. With more than fourteen years’ experience at three different UC campuses, few people have a more unique perspective on IT at UC than UC Merced CISO Nick Dugan. He jokes he’ll make…
Read more about IT Spotlight: Nick Dugan – from UC Student to UCM CISO
UC Tech News
June 30, 2015
All ArticlesChuck Rowley, CIO, UC Riverside, UCR
Posted by Chuck Rowley, Associate Vice Chancellor, UCR. On March 23, UC’s Vice Chancellors of Research (VCRs) and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) sponsored a cyberinfrastructure visioning conference at UCLA. The goal was to prioritize and recommend a UC cyberinfrastructure plan…
Read more about Researchers and CIOs Plan UC’s Next-Generation Cyberinfrastructure
UC Tech News
June 25, 2015
All ArticlesMark Cruz, UC Riverside, UCCSC, UCR
Posted by Mark Cruz, Application Delivery Support Services Manager, UCOP. UC is holding its annual IT professionals conference this August at UCR. The University of California Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) brings computing professionals together from all UC campuses to…
Read more about Annual UC Computing Services Conference: August 16-18, UCR
UC Tech News
June 25, 2015
All ArticlesDavid Rusting, Dewight Kramer, Information Security, UC Cybersecurity Summit, UC Davis, UCD
Posted by David Rusting, Chief Information Security Officer, UCOP. On June 16 and 17, the seventh bi-annual IT Security Symposium broke the record in attendance, bringing in over 350 technical professionals from nearly every UC campus and medical center. Taking…
Read more about UC Davis Has a Horse in the Security Race
UC Tech News
June 16, 2015
All ArticlesChristopher Ma, Karen Aresti, UC San Diego, UCSD
Posted by Christopher Ma, UCSD student intern at UCOP. UCSD student Karen Aresti has a big smile on her face as she greets people entering The Loft, the campus concert venue. In the background, the odd combination of banjo sounds…
Read more about Student Launches Career Using UCSD Jobs Portal