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Wolverine Crater opens for research

By | April 1, 2024

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.

Team co-op: A collaboration brings VR to Michigan

By | March 26, 2024

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 »

Message from the VPIT-CIO

By | March 19, 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.

Using GenAI to design floor plans and buildings

There is a lot to consider when designing places where humans live and work. How will the space be used? Who’s using the space? What are budget considerations? It is painstaking and time consuming to develop all of those details into something usable.  What if Generative AI (GenAI) could help? We already know that it can be used… Read More »

Black History Month 2024: An artist and writer examine surveillance

Black History Month pays “tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.” The Black History Month 2024 theme, “African Americans and the Arts,” explores the key influence African Americans have had in the fields of “visual and performing arts, literature, fashion, folklore, language, film, music, architecture, culinary and… Read More »

Duo releases a new look to all customers — coming to U-M Feb. 20

On Tuesday, February 20, 2024, the University of Michigan will start using an updated Duo Universal Prompt screen for two-factor authentication. All Duo customers across the world, including U-M, are required to transition to the Universal Prompt, and Duo is ending support for the traditional version. 

Michigan IT inaugural Tech Showcase & Social a success

“Community is built through connections, friendships, and memories forged through experiences.” The 2023 Michigan IT Tech Showcase and Social event was a new and exciting gathering for the Michigan IT community. This in-person, networking event welcomed more than 270 technology professionals to the Michigan Union on November 30. Designed to cultivate a sense of curiosity, cooperation, and unity… Read More »

Student Success Viewer introduced as new iteration of groundbreaking Student Explorer Tool

The University of Michigan is launching its new Student Success Viewer, an early warning system that helps academic advisors identify at-risk students using Learning Management System (LMS) data from the Unizin Data Platform (UDP). It utilizes that data to present actionable intelligence to advisors about students’ current term grades, activity, and assignments. This is not the first system… Read More »