Recent News

• Business Intelligence receives Student Affairs Campus Partner Award

  Vice President for Student Affairs Lori McDonald awarded UIT’s Business Intelligence team with the Campus Partner Award at the Student Affairs winter luncheon on December 10, 2019.

• OU Campus updates: v3 templates, new form tool, web policy changes

  Barb Iannucci, associate director of Content Management & Usability, gives some highlights from the Lunch & Updates event the team held on November 15, 2019 for OU Campus editors.

• Wi-Fi updates: improving campus coverage, expanding eduroam in Utah

  Making improvements to the university’s wired and wireless networks is a never-ending job. For the past year, the Network Services team has been updating the Wi-Fi designs in campus and University of Utah Health buildings to support new use cases — primarily mobile devices that support Wi-Fi voice calls.

Other News

• A win for WINS: High-capacity SCinet is successfully deployed

  Stacy Vincent, a data security analyst in Governance, Risk & Compliance, reflects on being part of the Women in Networking at SC (WINS) program, and helping to design, build, run, and dismantle a special network just for this year's Supercomputing conference (SC19).

• CISO Roach presents on academic freedom, data security at SAINTCON

  At the SAINTCON cybersecurity conference this year, Chief Information Security Officer Corey Roach spoke during the leadership track, where he addressed the oft-tense dynamic between academic freedom and data security.

• CHPC reaches SC conference milestone, wins award with Murray schools

  Anita Orendt, assistant director for Research Consulting and Faculty Engagement in the Center for High Performance Computing, looks back on SC19 and participating with Murray City School District in the first SCinet Technology Challenge.

• Action required: Windows 7 support ends on January 14, 2020

  Don't panic, but do make a plan — that’s the message that Windows 7 users should heed before January 14, 2020, when Microsoft formally ends "extended support" — free patches for security issues and bugs — and leave unsupported PCs exposed to exploits.

• Photos: 2019 UIT Holiday Luncheon

  The Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House was the fittingly festive location for this year’s UIT Employee Holiday Luncheon and Prize Drawing, held on Thursday, December 5, 2019.

• Video and photos: Camille Wintch's retirement party

  Laughter and the occasional ringing cellphone echoed through the Commander’s House in Fort Douglas on November 21, 2019 as UIT colleagues bid a fond farewell to data analyst Camille Wintch, who retired from University Support Services.

• Gift basket drawing raises $10,000 for Utah Food Bank

  Four UIT staff members took home coveted gift baskets during an opportunity drawing on December 12, 2019, but the real beneficiaries were the people served by the Utah Food Bank, which received more than $10,000 from ticket proceeds.

• IT governance roundup

  The Enterprise Web Advisory Council (EWAC) met on December 12. No other IT governance committees met in December. The Teaching and Learning Portfolio (TLP) will meet on January 16, the Strategic Information Technology Committee (SITC) will next meet on January 21, and the IT Architecture and New Technology Committee (ANTC) will meet on January 27.

• Tax season information

  What university employees need to know about the upcoming tax season, including how to set up your electronic W-2s and a redesigned 2020 W-4 form.

• Kudos & Congratulations

  UIT staff recognized for their excellent work.

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