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Dearborn moves the internet

A cross-campus team recently completed a massive project to create new network paths for the Dearborn campus.
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Tech innovation redefines Medical School curriculum

In partnership with HITS, the U-M Medical School is adding technological innovations to their curriculum to help develop future physician leaders.
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U-M Library upgrades audiovisual with help from ITS

U-M Library and ITS have devised a model of excellence for conference room AV that contributes to the thriving AV Technology CoP.
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ITS uses Canvas data to improve Undergraduate Nursing program’s clinical evaluations

ITS Teaching & Learning leveraged data from Canvas to help the School of Nursing reduce its student evaluation process from four weeks to two days.
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“Father of the Internet” retires from U-M

Douglas Van Houweling, UMSI professor of information and “Father of the Internet,” retired in April after a long, remarkable career at U-M.
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EMERSE: Michigan Medicine’s powerful medical record search engine

The Electronic Medical Record Search Engine is a fast, powerful, and easy-to-use tool that can dig through free text in medical records.
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Campus News

  • New M-Reports User Group forming
  • Erin Dietrich joins HITS as senior director for Research Applications & Advanced Computing
  • U-M recognized as leader in GIS by Esri
  • Read the Flint ITS annual report
  • New IT leadership at LSA, SSW
  • Plus much more...

Jobs, Training & Events

  • CoP Meetings: Export Controls, Agile Development, Advocacy, AV Technology, Data Integration
  • Collab Services adds additional Google & Box training
  • UMSI technical workshops
  • U-M to host Precision Medicine World Conference focusing on Big Data
  • ITS offers additional training in AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Enriching Scholarship, May 7–11
  • Working with U-M Box, May 11
  • Introduction to G-Suite, May 14
  • Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, May 16
  • Stata 1: Introduction to Stata, May 23
  • Stata 2: Statistical Modeling in Stata, May 29
  • Precision Medicine World Conference “Big Data in Action: Insights in the Clinic,” June 6–7

Safe Computing

  • Tips for traveling safely with technology
  • Units to test prompts to set account recovery info
  • Vulnerability management & vendor compliance standards published
  • Option to get password reset codes by text coming soon
  • OpenID Connect now available with Shibboleth at U-M

Projects & Services

  • Yottabyte Research Cloud certified for CUI data
  • U-M Box & Google Monthly Digest
  • ITS announces approval for project to install WiFi on the Diag
  • Changing the channel of MWireless: Improving your WiFi experience
  • New “Great Lakes” cluster to replace Flux
  • CTools sites to become read-only August 31
  • Energy-saving measures reduce MACC data center operating costs
  • Dearborn ITS helps students study abroad
  • Integrating events with Drupal and Salesforce
  • Single sign-on makes life easier for Dearborn students
  • Michigan Medicine upgrading to Windows 10

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