We are concluding the winter term of 2024. This marks the end of an exciting and challenging academic year for our educational community. There is so much turmoil in the world right now. That is why it is vitally important that Michigan IT is always here to support our students, faculty, staff, and each other. We are all in this together. We are a team. So, I want to thank all of you for, once again, focusing so strongly on the needs of our team.
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Two April events brought the U-M IT security community together in a spirit of engagement, transparency and shared goals.
U-M’s Alumni Association has improved its LEAD Scholarship Application process by integrating Salesforce. The new system streamlined the award process, reducing overhead and improving efficiency. The LEAD program processed over 1400 applications, and more than 80 scholarships were offered for the upcoming academic year.
Michigan Medicine has transitioned to a single 15-character passphrase to replace multiple passwords. The new passphrase is easier to remember and eliminates the need for annual password resets. The transition was designed to be seamless and the project team worked well together to make it happen.
The ITS Information Assurance team has published the History of Surveillance Timeline, a unique resource on Safe Computing for those who like to learn from history.
When coordinated and planned correctly, collaboration between faculty, students, and information technology can maintain security while allowing researchers the flexibility needed to drive innovation in a constantly changing engineering environment. “Maintaining PI autonomy and creating a secure environment is critical and increasingly challenging,” says Department Chair Ellen Arruda. In an ongoing effort to further secure the Department of Mechanical… Read More »
Dima Tawakkol is the director of academic applications and classroom technology services within HITS. She leads a team that supports various segments of the medical school community.
Michigan IT organized tours of the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building and the Wilson Student Team Center. Come along as we recap!
In 2019, leadership from the Salesforce Recruitment Org, which included several schools, approached the ITS Salesforce Center of Excellence (SFCOE) and Student Life Technology Solutions (SLTS) to discuss merging the Salesforce Recruitment Org with Student Life’s Student Org. Conversations took place at both the leadership and technical levels, leading to the conclusion that merging the two Salesforce orgs… Read More »
Our lunar base at Wolverine Crater was completed on April 1, 2024. This state-of-the art facility is the home of the Michigan Information Technology to Enable Networking in Space (MITTENS) team that deployed MUniverse, the first academic WiFi network in space, for our students, faculty, and staff to take remote learning and working to a whole new level.
The Newnan Academic Advising Center in LSA is utilizing Maizey to provide increased access to advising services for students.
Michigan Medicine has incorporated virtual reality (VR) in its call of duty, including an app in development where multiplayer teams join a virtual room to manage cardiac emergencies. VR provides an immersive, 360-degree training environment, becoming more available and affordable in recent years. The challenge? Finding the best use case and technology solutions for the Michigan Medicine network… Read More »
Privacy@Michigan hosted a 40th-anniversary screening of the film adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 and a U-M faculty panel discussion at the Michigan Theater on March 6, 2024.
Can you believe that we are only a few weeks away from the end of the 2023-2024 school year? Time is going by so fast. This has been a monumental academic year for the Michigan IT community. We have faced both unprecedented challenges and incredible technological advances. Throughout it all, I have been so impressed by how Michigan IT always puts our users first. We know our mission, and we live it every day.
All U-M students, faculty, and staff have been provided with no-cost access to OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, a fantastic text-to-image generating tool.
Information and Technology Services (ITS) and the Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC) have collaborated to launch a new series of free Generative AI (GenAI) Workshops as part of its growing catalog of generative artificial intelligence resources.
Anitra Wells is a desktop support specialist with ITS-Dearborn. She is proud of her customer service skills and genuinely enjoys helping people with their tech needs. In her free time, she enjoys playing cozy video games, diamond painting, and crocheting.
The leadership team from Student Accessibility and Accommodation Services (SAAS) approached Student Life Technology Solutions (SLTS) with the challenge of modernizing a primarily paper-based set of workflows and associated record-keeping.
The popular AI image generator DALL-E 3 and the newly updated GPT 4.0 Turbo available via UM-GPT at no cost.