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UIT's Elliot Fenech discussed the organization's Student Employee Program on November 3, 2017 as part of a national Cyberinfrastructure Engineering Brown Bag virtual event. A recording and slides of the presentation are available on Google Drive.

The Teaching & Learning Portfolio met on September 27, and the Architecture and New Technology Committee (ANTC) met on October 23. The Strategic Information Technology Committee (SITC) and the Enterprise Web Advisory Council (EWAC) did not meet in October.

Staff from UIT's University Support Services were on hand to answer questions from staff and faculty about the new Campus Information Services (CIS) portal on Thursday, September 28 at Employee Appreciation Day (EAD), held at Rice-Eccles Stadium.

Each year, University Information Technology (UIT) participates in National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) - a collaborative effort to teach students, staff, and faculty how to keep their online lives safe and secure.

Chris Dawson, video post-production supervisor in UIT's Digital Learning Technologies (DLT) presented October 7 at the 2017 Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC) conference at the University of Notre Dame.

BI and OBIA are partnering with other campus groups on a central BI hub. The goal is to supplant the old, siloed way of data gathering: individual units and departments each with their own BI methods and ways of reporting.

In an effort to improve the wireless experience for students, UIT’s Network Team is conducting a pilot program in campus housing on a new University wireless network called ULink.

Spend a little time with UIT’s Service Coordinators in Network and Communications Infrastructure and it quickly becomes apparent that the recipe for their success includes a little levity and a lot of grace under pressure.

The UIT Kevin Taylor Memorial Service Award program was established in 2014 to recognize superior service and ongoing contributions by UIT employees. Congratulations to all of this year's nominees, and thanks for all that you do.

The UIT All-Hands Meeting kicked off on Tuesday, October 17 with Chief Information Officer Steve Hess welcoming the group and introducing Randy Arvay, Chief Information Security Officer. Arvay took over to provide an update on security at the University, and talked about the top five threats in the industry today, the U's current security strategy and strengths, and the plan moving forward.