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We recently asked UIT employees to share a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like working from home. So far, we've heard about and seen photos of new co-workers, makeshift office spaces, favorite emojis, food experiments, budding blossoms, and more.

Microsoft Teams is helping to bridge the gap in face-to-face interactions during the U's transition to remote work and instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UIT Voice Systems engineer, who coaches youth baseball and enjoys live theater, says his time in the U.S. Navy changed the way he viewed everything

In the past 12 years, University Information Technology (UIT) has transformed a fairly homogenous workforce into a more diverse one. Yet closing the gender gap in the IT industry — and UIT — remains a challenge.

During his senior year at Layton High School, Marc Thompson and three classmates signed up for a character-building program in which young men were paid a small stipend in exchange for working the pineapple fields of Lānaʻi and Maui. A good day’s planting was 3,500 to 5,000 pineapples, but the boys were competitive.

After spending time around the Network Services team as a UTV technical assistant, the electrical engineering major wanted to get involved with the Network Operations Center. He says he's proud to keep the U network up and running.

UIT Staff Snapshots is a new, bite-size, semi-regular series featuring interesting tidbits about UIT employees. This month, meet Jan Lovett and Chris Moore — two of the voices behind some of the U's automated messages.

Cindy Hanson, executive secretary in UIT's Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT), was recently featured in a Deseret News article for serving 25 years as a volunteer at the Utah Arts Festival (UAF).

Besides working with smart, creative people, the digital product design major enjoys the human element of usability testing, which helps improve the student user experience.

The computer science major says troubleshooting user-submitted network issues can be challenging when all the necessary information isn't immediately available. Finding solutions, however, is usually easier.