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Category Archives: Top Stories
New plant identification app available, powered by U-M Herbarium
Biologists and plant enthusiasts now have the power of Michigan’s most complete plant identification guide in the palm of their hands.
Message from the VPIT-CIO
I hope you are enjoying these final days of July and finding time to appreciate summer in Michigan, even despite the occasional wildfire smoke.
Registration Open: Join the MTech Mentoring Program!
Registration is open for the Michigan Technology Community Mentor Program. Take advantage of the opportunity for network building, knowledge sharing, and professional goal development.
Online Harassment and Abuse: What You Can Do to Limit Risk
As online harassment continues to increase, here are some tips to help protect yourself and practice online hygiene.
New Resource: Appropriate Use of AI Services
The Appropriate Use of AI Services & U-M Policy guide provides clear, actionable direction organized around five key areas.
Q&A with CIO Kerry Flynn: How Ross IT Supports the Evolving Technology Needs of the School
Technology supports nearly every part of the work being done at Michigan Ross — from the admissions process and classroom instruction to day-to-day troubleshooting, events, major school projects, and more. Chief Information Officer Kerry Flynn shares how Ross IT supports the Ross community, what major projects are ahead, and how the team is helping the school adapt to evolving… Read More »
A Celebration of the Communities of Practice
You’re invited to a special event dedicated to celebrating the positive impact of Community of Practice (CoP) groups on our staff and organization.
AI Summit Explores Challenges and Opportunities for “Leaders and Best”
At the April 16 Summit “Everything That Is Wrong About AI: A Critical Look at Challenges & Opportunities,” co-hosted by ITS and the Provost’s Office, the U‑M community examined AI’s risks and benefits, and how the university could help lead and shape AI adoption.
Privacy@Michigan Unveiling the Panopticon: 2026 Events Recap
The 2026 Privacy@Michigan event series, co-sponsored by the ITS Privacy Office and the School of Information, ran from Data Privacy Day on January 28 through late March. The event series explored timely and far-reaching topics related to privacy from a variety of disciplines and perspectives.
Build Accessibility Into Every Document: A Self‑Paced Guide for Faculty, Editors, and Teams
Document accessibility means using best practices, tools, and workflows, so that you can easily create accessible documents each and every time. Explore tools and step-by-step guidance on how to improve your documents at your own pace.
When the Data Already Exists: Building Clinical Operations Tools from the Inside Out
Across healthcare administration, a quiet inefficiency persists. Critical decisions about provider schedules, workforce planning, and clinical coverage get made from spreadsheets, manual exports, and institutional memory — not because the data doesn’t exist, but because no one has built a bridge between raw data and the people who need to act on it. At the University of Michigan’s Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Allergy, that bridge is now being built from the inside out.
Michigan Medicine CoP Develops Free Dashboard Tool That Challenges Expensive BI Platforms
Researchers and staff across campus face a common frustration: valuable data sits locked in SharePoint lists, Excel files, and CSV exports, inaccessible to the people who need it most. Traditional business intelligence tools require expensive licenses, dedicated IT staff, and months of deployment cycles. A new open source tool developed at Michigan Medicine aims to eliminate those barriers entirely.
Message from the VPIT-CIO
I hope you are all enjoying the early signs of spring across our campuses. As we look ahead to commencement and the close of another academic year, it is a meaningful time to reflect on the energy, dedication, and collaboration that define the Michigan Technology Community. This season always serves as a reminder of the impact our work has on our students, faculty, and staff, and I am grateful to be part of a community that continues to support the university’s mission in such thoughtful and innovative ways.
Hacks with Friends 2026 Recap
Nine teams of creative and technology-minded staff members from across all four University of Michigan campuses collaborated in person at the 12th Hacks With Friends (HWF). The event took place on March 5 and 6 2026 at the Ross School of Business. It was the first time HWF had come back to Ross since the 2020 event, just days prior to the pandemic.
March Digital Accessibility: Make Your Sites and Content Accessible
The ITS Digital Accessibility team is highlighting website accessibility — what it is, why it matters, and the practical steps U-M technology staff and faculty can take to improve the web experience for everyone, including people with disabilities and people who use assistive technology.
Go Passwordless with Okta FastPass
Now that the Okta experience for sign-in and MFA is live, go passwordless by setting up Okta FastPass on your computer!
Celebrate Privacy Awareness with Privacy@Michigan Events and Programming
Join us for Privacy@Michigan events and programming featuring engaging presentations and more.
Try the new Okta sign-in and MFA experience now
Sign in with Okta by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, February 24 to be eligible to receive a $50 gift card to the U-M Tech Shop!
2026 Hacks with Friends – Save the Date & Call for Pitches
Make plans to participate in the 2026 Hacks with Friends (HWF) March 5 – 6 at the Ross School of Business. Registration opens February 11.