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After 52 years of service to the University of Utah, Dr. Steve Hess’ legacy is woven into the fiber of the state’s educational system — literally and figuratively. Hess will retire on June 30, 2026.

During Indigenous Storytelling Camp, 88 students from the Uintah Ouray Reservation, Monument Valley, White Mesa, and schools across the Wasatch Front gathered at the U to create and share their stories through digital and physical media.

Effective Saturday, July 4, 2026, the University of Utah Campus IT Help Desk (Utah and Asia campuses) will have new weekend support hours.

The university has launched two new Google tools for the campus community — Gemini and NotebookLM — reflecting the U’s commitment to responsible AI, data privacy, and expanded access to AI tools.

Which AI tools can U of U students use to help them study for exams without violating university policy, and how are those tools different?

The Security Champs Program, a community of IT staff that works with the ISO to support information security initiatives and share news and best practices with their units, will return in June 2026 after a two-year hiatus.

To help members of the university better understand and manage the sensitivity of documents in Google Workspace, UIT is preparing to roll out data classification labels. Data classification labels are metadata tags that users can apply to files in Google Drive (including Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs, and other supported file types).

The third annual Snowdance Student Film Festival culminated on March 27 with a public screening at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. This year’s event showcased 11 student films — more than in previous years — reflecting a noticeable increase in scope and storytelling.

As of April 1, the project team had worked with more than 20 U organizations to implement network access control in 12 areas. The team has also added a U of U Health project manager and outside contractor, and begun collaborating with the U’s Network Architecture Community of Practice.

To strengthen the protection of university information and make responsible data handling easier, UIT is preparing to roll out Microsoft 365 sensitivity labels. The new feature will help students, faculty, and staff classify and safeguard documents and emails with greater consistency and less effort.