May 30, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Molly Greek and Vivian Khem. How often do you say, “This drives me crazy! Someone should fix it.”? Hey, how about you? All of us have ideas about how to improve things. We see processes that should get fixed,…
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May 23, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Yvonne Tevis and Alexa Rivetti. The fifth biannual UC Cyber Security Summit was held in a hay barn. At UC Santa Cruz, nearly 130 University of California personnel gathered in the lovely restored Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on…
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May 23, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Many of us are familiar with the concept of spring cleaning. This year, consider taking some time to spring clean your digital life, too. Just like your home, your digital life can become cluttered; things pile up, get out of…
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May 16, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis. May 17, 2018, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day or “GAAD,” as they say. What does that mean? Well, walk for a minute in someone else’s shoes – particularly someone who is disabled and has to use assistive…
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May 9, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Alison Spencer. Transforming anatomy classes. Developing curriculum management systems. These are just two examples of how the Technology Enhanced Education (TEE) team at UC San Francisco serves as a partner in medical education. “Our mission is to enhance medical…
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May 2, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 2
By Tom Andriola. On April 5, thirty-four members of our UC IT community completed the third annual UC IT Leadership Academy. They spent six intensive days learning how to be stronger leaders, innovators, and collaborators. Participants got lots of…
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April 25, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Alison Spencer. By 2020, the UC Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) hopes to send 10,000 students on study abroad each year. To achieve this ambitious 82% increase in participation, UCEAP is trying to improve and simplify its processes, making…
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April 18, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
The University of California IT Strategic Sourcing has won the 2018 EPIC (Excellence in Purchasing Indirect Category) Award for Team Innovation. Presented at the ProcureCon Indirect East Conference held Feb. 20-22 in Florida, the EPIC Awards recognize and celebrate innovative,…
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April 11, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Innovations in Networking Awards are presented each year by CENIC to highlight exemplary innovations that leverage ultra-high bandwidth networking. The winning innovations have the potential to transform the ways in which instruction and research are conducted as well as further the deployment of broadband…
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April 4, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Michael Wegmann. UC IT Strategic Sourcing established a UC systemwide agreement in 2015 for Tableau business intelligence software used for data analytics and data visualizations. Systemwide use of Tableau grew since that time by over 46%. This high demand…
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