By Chasiri Sherron. I met Jill Finlayson on the UC Berkeley campus, at the headquarters of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute. “Have you been here before? It’s pretty…
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By Jeané Blunt. UC Berkeley opened the Cal Esports Community Center in 2018. I spoke with Kirk Robles, associate director of business development in the Division of Student Affairs, UC Berkeley, to ask about the center’s goals and how…
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February 19, 2020 All Articles 0
By Jeané Blunt. For over 150 years, UC has expanded the horizons of what we know about ourselves and our world. The University’s prestige is based in large part on the exceptional research conducted by UC researchers in every discipline. Here…
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February 5, 2020 All Articles 0
The UC Berkeley School of Information and CITRIS are excited to partner with Stanford University to bring the Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference to UC Berkeley on March 2. The conference will live stream keynotes from an annual…
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January 22, 2020 All Articles 0
By Kara Manke. As programs manager for Bike Bakersfield, a nonprofit bicycle advocacy coalition in Southern California, Asha Chandy hears scary stories all the time about bike collisions and near misses. “One guy told me that he was almost sideswiped…
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January 8, 2020 All Articles 0
Save the date for the ninth biannual UC Cyber Security Summit, which will be held at UC Berkeley on April 15, 2020. The summit is UC’s semiannual meeting that brings together people from across the university to discuss and…
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December 18, 2019 All Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis. This is the story of how three UC employees – from three separate campuses – got what they wanted because they worked together. What did they want? As process improvement people, they wanted tools. Specifically, a tool…
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November 13, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Rita Rosenthal. Dedication to making the student experience on campus easier to navigate is at the core of the work done by the creative and innovative people who support our Student Information Systems (SIS). The SIS team is…
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Jennifer Urban is a clinical professor of law at UC Berkeley and she was a featured speaker at the 7th Biannual UC Cyber Security Summit at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus on April 17. In this video, Professor Urban…
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April 17, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 2
By Rita Rosenthal. Imagine working with someone closely for over 10 years, talking on the phone weekly, yet never meeting each other in person. Or starting a technical project, only to learn several months in that another department on campus…
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