Doug Adams, digital experience designer with Health Information Technology & Services (HITS), has a passion for creative solutions. With a background rooted in retail and customer service, he uses empathy and design skills to improve the daily experience of those around him. He focuses on improving the HITS’ web presence.
Released over ten years ago, MCommunity recently went through a remarkable transformation! The MCommunity Directory replaced the legacy U-M Online Directory (UMOD) in the summer of 2011. A major driver for the replacement was that UMOD did not support authentication and managing access to U-M resources based on who is affiliated with the university and in what capacity.… Read More »
The Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC) helps shape the strategic direction for technology services and projects across U-M by providing strategic advice to the VPIT-CIO and sharing information across the U-M IT community. Here are their achievements so far. ITS Executive Directors and STAC Core Positive direction for improving communications and partnership when rolling out new services, including service catalog. Adjustments to… Read More »
Schedule Displays are now available for order through the Tech Shop. Schedule Displays are small, interactive touch panels that allow users to see what meetings are coming up in a specific space. These Schedule Displays are compact and simple to install. Licensing is covered at no additional cost. All you need to do is purchase the display and… Read More »
Fourteen teams of creative and technology-minded staff members from across U-M collaborated in person and online at the eighth annual Hacks With Friends (HWF). The event, which took place on June 2 and 3, 2022, was the first in-person Michigan IT event to take place since HWF 2020, which was held just prior to the pandemic.
I appreciate Dr. Ono’s humility, his student focussed and empathetic leadership, and his focus on mental health and wellness. Together as the Michigan IT community across all campuses, I know we will continue to accomplish many things for this great institution.
Join technology professionals across the Michigan IT community for the 2022 Michigan IT Symposium on November 16 and 17. This annual event creates connections between community members and showcases the innovation occurring across U-M’s campuses. This year’s event will be focused on how technology helps shape the future of learning, research, and care.
Nancy Herlocher is a project manager with LSA Technology Services. Through her work, she strives for positive change. She loves to add whimsy to whatever she does, which includes recently dressing as a jockey to walk her 40th marathon in Kentucky.
The University of Michigan has adopted a new Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standard Practice Guide, which will help to ensure technologies on all three U-M campuses and Michigan Medicine are inclusive and accessible to the entire U-M community.
On July 9, 2022, Denodo at U-M was upgraded from version 7 to version 8. Denodo at U-M is a data virtualization tool that can connect to a wide variety of data sources—relational databases, APIs, spreadsheets, websites, flat files, document databases, etc.—and combine, aggregate, filter, and join the data to create easy to understand views. When these views… Read More »
The Strategic Technology Advisory Committee (STAC) helps shape the strategic direction for technology services and projects across U-M by providing strategic advice to the VPIT-CIO and sharing information across the U-M IT community. STAC recently completed their annual charter review and elected new officers. On June 21, STAC leadership held their annual business meeting and elected new officers and reviewed and approved the… Read More »
The University of Michigan is the first university in the nation to offer WiFi 6E to students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors on the Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses. Learn how the WiFi Upgrade Project team replaced more than 16,000 wireless access points (APs) in over 225 indoor and outdoor locations despite a global chip shortage and supply chain disruptions.
Congratulations to this year’s Hacks with Friends participants! The event was an exceptional showcase of our community’s outstanding creativity and innovation. We have many opportunities to stay connected with colleagues throughout the year by joining one of nearly 30 Michigan IT Communities of Practice.
Amy Yamasaki was trained as an artist. Her creative process allows her to solve problems, both in her art and in her job as a research liaison with HITS. She’s most at home with a hammer in her hand.
Learn how ITS Teaching & Learning collaborated with ITS Digital UX and DISC teams to bring a crucial Canvas app up to current technology standards and meet the needs of faculty and course administrators.
Starting May 16, eProcurement users will experience a new look and feel for transactions in the M-Pathways Financials & Physical Resources system. This change is part of a larger effort to update several M-Pathways modules to a responsive design and ensures the university maintains vendor support. Review the eProcurement Modernization – Overview of Changes for a complete list… Read More »
Congratulations to the Class of 2022, and to any parents of new graduates! It is humbling to have played a part in their educational experience by providing technology support and tools used to equip their uncharted journey at Michigan.
Students at the University of Michigan are preparing themselves for life after graduation by participating in the Adobe Student Ambassador Program and taking advantage of the no-cost Adobe Creative Cloud Suite (Adobe CCS). Adobe CCS is a collection of over 20 desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, user experience, and more. Summer Nguyen… Read More »
Register today for Hacks with Friends 2022—a fun-filled event where you have two days to break out of your confines, form a team, build a project (or hack) from scratch, and show it off in a competition! This event is open to all IT and technology professionals and advocates who work at the university.
James Alexander is a senior software ambassador with the Center for Academic Innovation. He helps faculty leverage technology to enhance the student experience and success. James is also an ardent video game devotee and co-host of the Black Movie Podcast.