June 25, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Meghan Steele Horan.
Imagine a device that could stand up to even the most intense fires so that it could automatically signal others when a firefighter is immobilized on the job.
UCLA researchers and colleagues at two other universities…
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By Shadee Ashtari.
In March, the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) awarded the 2018 HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence to UCLA Health for its progressive use of health care information technology (IT) to improve patient outcomes…
Read more about UCLA Health Receives Award for Technologies that Improve Patient Outcomes
June 19, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Jacob Poore.
A computer lab in a vending machine? That’s what UC Riverside’s Information Technology Solutions (ITS) organization made possible when it implemented self-service laptop checkout kiosks on campus for students.
The kiosks are a lot like a vending machine — or video rental kiosk — for campus-owned laptops, and offer three device options, including Dell…
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June 12, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Roshni Pratap.
A new systemwide agreement is in place for Gradescope, effective April 2, 2019.
What is Gradescope?
Gradescope is a market leader in the digital grading space designed to make grading more consistent, fair, and efficient. Gradescope…
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June 5, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Shani Murray.
How do we build systems that proactively promote values of inclusion? This is one of the questions the Department of Informatics hopes to tackle over the next few years, thanks to a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National…
Read more about Informatics Department Receives $1.1M to Study Socially Responsible AI
May 31, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Michael Marchant.
After the disastrous California wildfires, how did the many, many displaced people – separated from their local clinics, doctors’ offices, medical records, even medications – get care? How did providers and first responders treat them, when they…
Read more about UCD Health Is Ready: Health Information Exchange when Disaster Strikes
SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced the successful rollout of the SAP Student Activity Hub solution through a partnership with the University of California, San Diego, combining student demographic, course and learning data into one central platform.
Access across the enterprise…
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April 24, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Tom Andriola.
Last month marked five years since we started publishing the UC IT Blog. In that time, the blog has evolved to become what I call “the story of us” – 8000 IT professionals serving the University of…
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Alzheimer’s disease affects people all over the world and Kumaran Akilan’s family is no different.
As the first-year student from Cupertino waits to see if his grandfather’s mild cognitive impairment…
Read more about Young UC Merced Student Developing Smartphone Diagnostics for Alzheimer’s
April 10, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis.
Did you take the Cool Campus Challenge yet? It’s not just about saving the planet. It’s also about the evolution of an IT tool built by a UC grad student.
Chris Jones, director of the