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Longtime friends and colleagues gathered at 102 Tower on November 7 to bid Chief Information Security Officer Corey Roach “fair winds and following seas” ahead of his retirement and relocation to the East Coast.

Monthly events — including bagel and doughnut breakfasts and Halloween celebrations — have helped to build morale and team spirit, lessen stress, and spark creativity during a busy fall semester.

A local celebrity graced the 15th annual ITS-UIT golf tournament held September 12. To the amusement and occasional chagrin of players, a golf ball-stealing red fox named “Roxy” followed teams around the pine and willow tree-framed fairways of the course.

Employees in UIT's Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) organization recently took part in three team-building and morale events: a Scavenger Hunt, Block Walk Challenge, and Treats & Trivia.

Rose Park/West Side Baseball recently honored Heather Birky Winters, a telecom specialist for UIT Voice Systems and Business Administration, with a crystal award and flowers for a decade of service to the league.

If the past two years are any indication, UIT is a good luck charm for the Salt Lake Bees and the Utah weather gods. Temperatures warmed into the 70s during the Bees’ victorious matinee game — and annual UIT Spring Party — on May 23 at Smith’s Ballpark.

The desert around Earl Lewis’ vacation home in northeastern Utah — a yurt in Vernal, his wife’s hometown — teems with life. Nestled among slickrock and sagebrush, the yurt sits on a 375-acre family property near Moonshine Arch, about 30 miles west of the Colorado border.

Despite being delayed a month due to a winter storm, this year’s Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) organization’s team-building and morale events got off to a sweet start.

The UIT system administrator worked in a veterinary clinic for two years. The experience taught him “to get started without waiting for confidence to kick in” and inspired him to pivot into a health care-supporting role at the university.

Dave Huth has been an insider to 40 years of dramatic digital transformations at the University of Utah. The director for Product Management (CTO Office) & Enterprise Architecture recently sat down to discuss a particular watershed moment: the arrival of the first Macintosh computer in 1984.