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…
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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,…
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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…
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Posted by Lexi Rivetti, UCB student intern at UCOP. “I think I’ve saved people about $500 – $1,000 in this fraternity alone,” said Sam Rausser, UCB ‘16, swiveling in a black office chair and backlit by his four large computer…
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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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