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UIT All-Hands Meeting and Kevin Taylor Award recap

Chris Moore, senior middleware systems administrator in the Chief Technology Officer organization, won the 2024-2025 Kevin Taylor Memorial Service Award

More than 300 UIT employees attended an online All-Hands Meeting on September 9. The meeting gave Chief Information Officer Steve Hess an opportunity to share updates on organizational accomplishments and goals, and concluded with a presentation of the 2024-2025 Kevin Taylor Memorial Service Award.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Securing our world

Neon pink, purple, yellow, and orange outline of a shield containing a pink and orange gradient padlock. Neon white, pink, and purple circles spiral around the shield. Neon blue lines radiate out from the circles. At the end of each line is an icon, such as a Wi-Fi signal, three users, waypoint; some are more in focus than others.

Observed every October since 2004, Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM) aims to highlight some challenges that exist in the world of cybersecurity and provide straightforward, actionable guidance that anyone can follow to create a safe and secure digital world for themselves and others.

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MobileU app redesign draws on student feedback

A phone in someone’s hand, with the MobileU app open to the home screen. The background is yellow.

The addition of a search function — a popular feature request — was just the beginning of a major overhaul of the University of Utah app that connects users to campus resources on the go.

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UIT outfoxes ITS in golf tournament putt-off

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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.

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IT governance roundup

IT Governance

The Strategic Information Technology Committee met on September 10, the Teaching and Learning Portfolio met on September 17, and the Architecture and New Technology Committee met on September 23. The Enterprise Web Advisory Council will reconvene on October 10.

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UIT preplanning avoids start of semester 'fires'

Two male University of Utah students sit at a study space in Marriott Library. The student on the left is wearing glasses and a gray hoodie. The student on the right is wearing beige shorts and a red polo shirt and is pointing at a laptop computer. Image courtesy of the University of Utah.

Before each new semester, UIT teams and their IT counterparts across campus and University of Utah Health practice a proactive form of “fire prevention” that involves planning IT changes, maintaining software licenses, and leveraging cloud-based resources.

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Last Updated: 4/11/22