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Staff could choose their own adventure — watch “Beetlejuice” in the Cinema Cemetery, play Jackbox.TV games in the USS (Underground Super-Spooky) Lair, or hang out in the Water Tower — and post messages and contest entries in the associated Teams channels.

The National Science Foundation recently announced a $3 million grant to expand the FABRIC cyberinfrastructure — which includes a testbed at the University of Utah — to nodes at preeminent scientific institutions in Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

While the spring 2021 Learning Spaces process will follow a similar approach to previous years, University of Utah colleges and units will notice a few adjustments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including video submissions and Zoom interviews.

The Enterprise Web Advisory Council (EWAC) met on November 12. The Teaching and Learning Portfolio (TLP) reconvened on November 16. The IT Architecture and New Technology Committee (ANTC) met on November 23. EWAC will regroup on December 10. The Strategic Information Technology Committee (SITC) will reconvene on January 12, 2021. ANTC will meet again January 25, 2021. The next TLP meeting is to be determined.

UIT staff recognized for their excellent work.

A legion of UIT staff and other IT professionals spent almost a year working to ensure that the 90 minute debate would be successful — from delivering the extensive dedicated network core and backbone for the debate hall and related venues, to providing IP streaming capability for 140 TVs.

Before the pandemic, interns in UIT’s Student University Development Opportunity (sUdo) program used to meet once a month for a “tabletop” team-building event with snacks, board games, and video games. This semester, they rebooted the meetings with a twist — in a virtual office in Minecraft.

The Identity & Access Management senior architect — one of 23 recipients for the 2020 Academics and Student Affairs District Staff Excellence Award — is one of only eight University of Utah employees selected to receive the 2020 University Staff Excellence Award and $3,750 honorarium.

If everyone does their part — implementing stronger security practices, raising community awareness, educating vulnerable audiences, or training employees — our interconnected world will be safer and more resilient.

The U's Oracle Java Community of Practice has established a Microsoft Teams subchannel with resources to help system administrators meet the November 30, 2020, deadline to identify any tool or system that uses Oracle Java.