Tag Archive: coronavirus
UC IT Blogger
December 10, 2020
All ArticlesCA COVID Notify, Carolyn Nordstrom, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Christopher Longhurst, Marc Sylwestrzak, Melinda Battenberg, UC Health, UC San Diego, UC San Diego Health, UCSD
By Melinda Battenberg. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on December 7, 2020, that CA Notify, the COVID exposure notification system championed by UC San Diego Health, will be available statewide on December 10. The system will make available to all California residents an important tool for slowing the spread of COVID-19.
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Read more about COVID Notify System Goes Statewide
UC IT Blogger
December 2, 2020
All ArticlesCalifornia COVID Notify, coronavirus, COVID-19, GAEN, Google/Apple Exposure Notifiation, pandemic, pilot program, smartphone technology
By Sandra Baltazar Martinez and Andrea Estrada. After a successful deployment at UC San Diego and UC San Francisco, five more UC campuses are joining California COVID Notify, a pilot program of a smartphone-based COVID-19 exposure notification system.
The program…
Read more about UC Campuses Pilot a Smartphone App that Aims to Limit Spread of COVID-19
UC IT Blogger
November 4, 2020
All ArticlesChristy Snyder, collaboration, coronavirus, COVID-19, Gustavo Torres, Jessica Duffy, Microsoft Teams, Office of Information Technology, OIT, Student Dens, UC Merced, UCM
By Jessica Duffy and Christy Snyder. As the full impact of COVID-19 unfolded over the summer, UC Merced’s academic leadership made the decision to build out capacity to support remote instruction. Of particular concern was the student experience in this…
Read more about Student Dens: A Remote Student Support System at UC Merced
UC IT Blogger
October 28, 2020
All Articlescoronavirus, COVID-19, Information Technology Services, ITS, Jay Olson, Jim Phillips, pandemic, Student Corps, UC Santa Cruz, UCSC
By Jim Phillips. In response to the shelter-in-place order that was instituted in California due to the coronavirus pandemic, Jay Olson, divisional liaison for the Humanities Division, Information Technology Services (ITS), brought together a group of UCSC student workers to…
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UC IT Blogger
September 30, 2020
All Articlescoronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Christopher Longhurst, GAEN, Google/Apple Exposure Notifiation, smartphone technology, UC San Diego Health, UC San Francisco Health, UCSD Health, UCSF Health
Two University of California campuses are piloting the use of a smartphone technology to notify users if they have had a high-risk COVID-19 exposure that may result in infection. Importantly, privacy and security are central to the design of the…
Read more about UCSD and UCSF Pilot Smartphone Technology to Help Limit Spread of COVID-19
UC IT Blogger
September 16, 2020
All Articlescommunity health, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Ghanya Thomas, Health Atlas, health disparities, race, UC Office of the President, UC San Francisco, UCOP, UCSF
By Ghanya C. Thomas. Medical doctor Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo recalls a conversation with a patient who had heart failure: “I’m always emphasizing to my patients the importance of eating fruits and vegetables and this one time during our visit the patient…
Read more about A Fight to Map Change: The UCSF Health Atlas Reveals Social Inequities
UC IT Blogger
August 12, 2020
All Articlescoronavirus, COVID-19, Katie Chappell, online learning, remote learning, UC Irvine, UCI
By Katie Chappell. Transitioning thousands of courses to a virtual format is no small task, and just as other institutions of higher education around the world, the faculty of UCI faced the enormous task with just a few days to…
Read more about Facilitating Teaching and Learning in a COVID-19 Environment
UC IT Blogger
August 5, 2020
All ArticlesAdrian Mohuczy-Dominiak, C3, coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, UC Cyber Security Summit, UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center, UC Office of the President, UCOP, virtual event, Zoom
By Adrian Mohuczy-Dominiak. My team was putting the final touches in place for the April 2020 UC Cyber Security Summit. Then the world was hit with a pandemic. Our in-person event was no longer an option.
We didn’t want to give up on our goal of information…
Read more about Going Virtual in 25 days: The Transformation Journey of the UC Cyber Security Summit
UC IT Blogger
July 29, 2020
All Articlescoronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Christopher Longhurst, Dr. Robert "Chip" Schooley, UC San Diego, UC San Diego Health, UCSD, UCSD Health, webinar, Youtube
Do you wish you could get COVID-19 information directly from the experts? Get help sorting fact from fiction?
You’re in luck! Physicians at UC San Diego Health have launched the COVID-19 Grand Rounds Series, a six-part, live video symposium…
Read more about COVID-19 Grand Rounds at UC San Diego Health
UC IT Blogger
July 22, 2020
All ArticlesAnnelie Rugg, coronavirus, COVID-19, remote work, UC Los Angeles, UC WIT, UC Women in Technology Committee, UCLA
By Annelie Rugg. We’re well past 100 days of the COVID-19 quarantine and still counting. Everything we thought we knew, including how to balance work and life, has required us to change, at least for now. And while we yearn…
Read more about Managing Well in a Remote World: Lessons from the UC Women in IT Community