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New ELI student application increases admissions

From left: Izzy Solvang, Carrie Felton, Arainna Forth, Mythri Mani, and Barb Iannucci.

Since the September 2025 launch of its unified application and document portal, developed by UIT’s Customer Relationship Management team, ELI has had a 265% increase in applications started compared to the previous 12 weeks, with a 62% increase in application completion.

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U students lead the conversation at inaugural AI symposium

Tony Sams, Jeb Dean, Logan Bogesvang, Diya Mandot, Nicholas Pardon, and Dr. Sneha Kasera.

UIT’s Digital Learning Technologies hosted a student-led symposium on artificial intelligence, bringing together U of U students, faculty, and staff, peers, and industry leaders for a full day of discussions, presentations, and networking.

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Most viewed: Node 4's top 10 articles of 2025

Clockwise from top, Matt Schroeder, Veronica Savage, axe Monitor webpage, Utah 360 app, and Devaki Murch's identity papers.

Of 120 articles, campus vignettes, IT security tips, updates, and reminders, readers gravitated toward articles about new and upgraded services and features about UIT employees and teams.

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9 U orgs celebrated for cybersecurity toolset implementation

Standing, from left: Scott Patten, Kelli Blake, Ian Ferguson, Neal Patel, Miriam Logan, Dane Trauntvein,  Lance Finch, Randy Thompson, Jason Stidd, Dustin Fehr, Bryce Knight, Bryan Edvalson, Emir Ahmedic , Kislev Borja, Kyle Colbert, Donna Roach, Gordon Kafton, Tyler Chmelik, Steve Hess, and Dean Keyek-Franssen. Kneeling, from left: Clay Postma, Karin Wilcox, and Jim Logue.

UIT Partner Relations celebrated nine U organizations for successfully implementing a suite of cybersecurity tools. The UIT-sponsored event marked the fulfillment of a primary requirement of the campus-wide Cybersecurity Program commissioned by President Randall.

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DLT-sponsored film festival celebrates digital creativity, winter culture

Promotional artwork by Adobe Creative Consultant Tyler Willis for the Snowdance Student Film Film Festival features the slogan, “Respect the Send.”

What began as a grassroots film festival led by university students and sponsored by UIT’s Digital Learning Technologies has grown into a signature campus event rebranded as “Snowdance” — boasting more films, more sponsors, and the need for a bigger event space.

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IT security tip: Passphrases are better than passwords

An orange shield holds up a lock, brick wall with fire, document, and other computer-related graphics. On top of the shield is a white box with the passphrase

A passphrase is a more secure, human-friendly password. It typically consists of three or more words separated by a space or a hyphen. The more characters, the better.

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Last Updated: 2/20/26