Author Archive: UC Tech News
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
UC Tech News
February 19, 2015
All ArticlesChuck Podesta, collaboration, Ed Babakanian, Healthcare, Joe Bengfort, Michael Minear, Michael Pfeffer, Scott Cebula
Posted by Scott Cebula, UC Health IT Initiative. The five UC medical centers are working together on an initiative to share best practices, leverage economies of scale, and thereby return dollars to higher-value activities. As the cost of delivering healthcare…
Read more about UC Medical Centers Join Forces to Create Value through Collaboration
UC Tech News
February 13, 2015
All ArticlesCharles McIntyre, collaboration, innovation
Post by Charles McIntyre, UCSC. This week, we randomly picked two entries in the UC NeXt survey for the free UCCSC tickets. The winners are: Jonathon Wilson (UCLA) David Rusting (UCOP) See you at Riverside this summer! A common…
Read more about Week 2: Winners of the Innovation/Collaboration Survey
UC Tech News
February 5, 2015
All ArticlesCharles McIntyre, Chris Thompson, UC Los Angeles, UCLA
Post by Charles McIntyre, UCSC. The UC NeXt group, an ITLC subcommittee, wants to discover and connect the pockets of innovation and collaboration across UC. We have a survey so all UC IT staff can participate and share…
Read more about UC NeXt Weekly Survey Winners