I host quarterly IT town hall meetings, and the next town hall is Friday, May 15, 10:00 – 11:00. Because we webstream them from UCOP (thanks to the technical staff at UCSF!), you can attend remotely. Friday’s agenda features presentations…
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Join Bill Freire, UCPath Center IT Manager, in this webinar to learn how the UCPath Center IT team is providing enabling technologies and support for the UCPath Center. Date: Monday, May 11, 2015 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Log…
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A strategy to drive more synergy in IT across UC is to engage in more shared services. Initiatives like UCPath certainly will do that, but large programs are complicated and take several years to deploy. Grassroots efforts, meaning campus-led IT…
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Watch this short video about interesting activities in IT at UC right now: Big data in health care: There is an important conversation underway among the UC medical centers and medical schools about how they can combine health data…
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The UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) has been connecting Californians to their university for over 100 years. Today ANR is finding new and innovative ways to extend UC’s reach to rural areas, to use the power…
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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….
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Just a reminder – May 15 is the deadline to apply for a University of California Sautter Award for Innovation in Information Technology. This is the 15th anniversary of the program. I’d love to see us get 50 applications…
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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…
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Universities in the digital age are focusing on improving the experience of their students – and providing them with personalized information to enhance their sense of community on campus and increase retention, academic performance, and employability. IBM and its cognitive…
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I’ve been blessed with many opportunities to learn from great leaders throughout my career. In some cases, I simply had the chance to work for very effective leaders and see them in action. At other times, I participated in development…
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