March 21, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Alexa Rivetti, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. The UC IT Leadership Academy brought together thirty-five IT professionals to learn from award-winning faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, UC CIOs, and, of course, each other. During the first…
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February 10, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Alexa Rivetti, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. Over 80 cybersecurity professionals converged at UC Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium on November 9, 2016, for the second biannual UC Cybersecurity Summit. The event was informative, positive, and fun. Lawyers, professors, and programmers formed…
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January 31, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Alexa Rivetti, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. On a rainy LA afternoon, over 60 faculty, staff and students from UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, and CalTech came together to preserve some of the nation’s climate change data that…
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November 17, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
By Alexa Rivetti, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. Maria Fernandez has undeniable warmth and charisma – two characteristics that lend themselves well to fundraising. As database administrator for the development services department for UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) and the…
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November 8, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Alexa Rivetti, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. Just before 10:00 a.m. on June 2, David Lakatta, Systems Administrator at UCLA Library, was heading to work when he received a text on his phone, alerting him to go to a secure…
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September 13, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
Posted by Alexa Rivetti, UCB student intern, UCOP. UC Santa Cruz served as the perfect location for the 2016 University of California Computing Services Conference (UCCSC), which took place this past July at Porter College. The theme for the conference…
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August 31, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 2
Posted by Alexa Rivetti, UCB student intern, UCOP. “I never thought I would learn this much about UC,” said Audrie Ramirez, recent graduate of CSU East Bay, and information security intern at UCOP. “I actually didn’t know that much about…
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August 30, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
Posted by Alexa Rivetti, IT Marketing Intern, UCOP. Practicing good information security is easy! Learn how to keep your information safer in just thirty seconds, with the three simple security tips in the video below. Filmed on the 7th floor…
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August 18, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 1
Posted by Alexa Rivetti, UCB student intern, UCOP. For many Berkeleyans, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) seems like a mysterious place atop the hill, full of top-secret information, virtually inaccessible by car or bus unless you have a special…
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August 16, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Alexa Rivetti, UCB student intern, UCOP. For universities on the semester system, school starts in just a few days. For those on the quarter system, there’s weeks left. Either way, now is the time to pick up a…
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