Author Archive: UC Tech News
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
UC Tech News
June 10, 2015
All ArticlesAccessibility, Lucy Grego
Posted by Lucy Greco, web accessibility evangelist, UCB. In August 2013, UC adopted the Information Technology Accessibility Policy, establishing that all UC locations will strive to make their electronic content accessible to people with disabilities. Specifically, websites will adhere…
Read more about UC’s IT Accessibility Policy: What It Means for Us
UC Tech News
June 5, 2015
All ArticlesShohreh Bozorgmehri, UC Agile, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Risk and Safety Solutions, UCD, UCI
Posted by Shohreh Bozorgmehri, director, Student and Academic Services Division, UCI Office of Information Technology, and Safa Hussain, executive director, UC Risk and Safety Solutions. Eleven representatives from the UC Irvine Office of Information Technology visited the UC Risk and…
Read more about UC Agile Teams Meet to Share Knowledge
UC Tech News
June 4, 2015
All ArticlesAlexa Rivetti, Data Science, DataEdge, UC Berkeley, UCB
Posted by Lexi Rivetti, UCB student intern at UCOP. Tucked away inside South Hall, the oldest campus building in the UC system, is Berkeley’s School of Information. To undergraduates, South Hall is a mystery, for classes in the school only…
Read more about DataEdge 2015: Inside the Data Science Phenomenon
UC Tech News
May 26, 2015
All ArticlesCandace Jones, Take Your Kids to Work Day, UCOP
Posted by Candace Jones, web manager, UCOP. UCOP participated in Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day on April 23. The Web and Application Services group joined in the festivities to talk about the information technology field and,…
Read more about Take Your Kids to Work – in IT!
UC Tech News
May 20, 2015
All ArticlesDavid Koehler, EDUCAUSE, Jim Phillips, Taming Application Sprawl
Posted by Jim Phillips, Director, Learning Technologies and IT Accessibility Officer, UCSC. In a recent EDUCAUSE article titled Taming Application Sprawl, David Koehler provides an easy-to-read overview of the portfolio management methodology used by campus leadership to closely consider…
Read more about Determining Value in David Koehler’s “Taming Application Sprawl”
UC Tech News
April 22, 2015
All ArticlesCENIC, Louis Fox
Posted by Louis Fox, CENIC President and CEO. Today, a lot of research involves remote collaboration between laboratories and universities all over the world. But collaboration can sometimes be hindered by a network design for big-data research – the Science DMZ….
Read more about Pacific Research Platform for Big-Science Innovation
UC Tech News
April 14, 2015
All ArticlesActive Learning, EDUCAUSE, Jenn Stringer
Posted by Jenn Stringer, Associate CIO, Academic Engagement, UCB. Active Learning isn’t new, but it is gaining ground as a teaching modality on many of our campuses. The “Flipped Classroom” is just the latest popular flavor of active learning. Active…
Read more about Active Learning, Technology, and Spaces
UC Tech News
March 12, 2015
All ArticlesCharles McIntyre, collaboration, innovation, UCCSC
Posted by Charles McIntyre, UCSC. As our collaboration survey contest winds down, we picked three entries at random to get the remaining free UCCSC tickets. The winners are: Patrick Windmiller (UCSB) Glenn Blackler (UCSC) Jessica Hilt (UCSD) See you…
Read more about Final Winners of the Innovation/Collaboration Survey