March 21, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
You are invited to join the upcoming UC IT Town Hall either in-person or via webstream! UCR’s Mike Pazzani will discuss the research cyber infrastructure, Mark Cianca will provide an update on UCPath, and a few of the participants in…
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March 17, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 1
You are invited to join the upcoming UC IT Town Hall either in-person or via webstream! UCR’s Mike Pazzani will discuss the research cyber infrastructure, Mark Cianca will provide an update on UCPath, and a few of the participants in…
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March 16, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
Posted by Lisa Bono, IT Communications Manager, UCSC. New this year to the UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC), first-time attendees may qualify to have the conference registration fee ($250) waived! To generate new faces and energy at the conference…
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Posted by Leah Burns, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. “We need to make a collective effort to stay well-informed about what causes cyber risk,” said UC CIO Tom Andriola at the 2016 Cybersecurity Summit. “As perpetrators get more sophisticated, stakes rise…
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March 11, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
Date: Wednesday, March 23 Time: 2-3 p.m. Presenters: Jonathan Kahn, Enterprise Application Architect, UCOP; Jerome McEvoy, Enterprise Architect, UCOP This is our second webinar in a three-part series on process mapping. You will learn about the value proposition and differentiators…
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March 10, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Leah Burns, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. When Czarina Ofalla was studying biochemistry as an undergrad at UCLA, she had no idea she would end up working in electronic medical records. A part-time job as a pharmacy technician showed…
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Posted by Larry Delaney, Sr. Applications Manager, UCOP. The IT department at UCOP enhances and maintains UC’s very complex Payroll and Personnel System (PPS). During 2015, this system paid 286,918 UC employees across the university, of which 190,311 were at…
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March 3, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 1
Posted By Susan Shen, UCB Intern, UCOP. The conventional image of a librarian is often someone behind a desk taking inventory of books. As Director of Educational Technology Initiatives for the UCSF Library, Gail Persily is so much more….
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Last month the EDUCAUSE Review published an article, “Implementing an Accessibility Policy: An Insider’s Guide,” by two IT staff at UCB – Lucy Greco (pictured) and Anna Gazdowicz. Lucy tells her personal story as a blind person, and how technology…
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February 25, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 2
Posted by Leah Burns, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. Jennifer S. Hopkins came to UC Berkeley in 2012, bringing over fifteen years of IT work experience in government and the private sector. For her, the main draw to higher education was…
Read more about Spotlight: Jennifer S. Hopkins, “Helping Transform the UCB Student Experience through Technology”