Campus IT professionals gave their children a taste of technology careers through the inaugural Take Our Children to Work Day. At the April 28 event, 24 children programmed their own video game, navigated ball-shaped robots through a colorful obstacle course, and toured the College of Engineering.

Through a coordinated institution-wide effort, the UI accomplished the task of activating managed whole disk encryption on over 5,500 university mobile computing devices. The IT community will now turn its attention to the remainder of the Board of Regents’ charge, encrypting portable storage dev

The Electronic Research Administration (eRA) project has successfully delivered eCOI, eIACUC, eIBC, Tracker, eDsp-Work Control, eDSP-Work Queue, and Research Portal functionality. Collectively, those applications have made a big impact on reducing administrative burden for researchers and support staff.

Much of the success is credited to a partnership struck in 2010 between the Office of Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPR&ED) and ITS-Administrative Information System (AIS). Under that arrangement, RIS Director Jose Jimenez has served on the AIS Leadership Team, RIS has been considered an AIS workgroup, and RIS staff have participated in ITS and AIS activities. 

Now entering the final stages of the eRA project, the teams are exploring fresh ways to support the eRA project and applications going forward. One result is a decision to shift RIS staff into AIS while maintaining the dual reporting relationship.

Nominations for the inaugural TIER Excellence Awards are being accepted through April 11. We have many, many deserving candidates devoting time and energy to bring OneIT initiatives to fruition, so please consider participating in this opportunity for recognition. Recipients receive $1,000 and a commemorative gift in the categories of: Advancing TIER Implementation, Service Excellence, and Innovation and Process Improvement.