Tony Clark has accepted the position of IT director for the College of Pharmacy, effective Jan. 18, 2022. Clark is retired from the Air Force after 25 years of service. As a commissioned officer, he held IT-related leadership positions for 16 of those years.

Sriram Chari has accepted the position of executive director of Administrative Information Systems in Information Technology Services (ITS), effective Nov. 1. Chari has worked as director of middleware IT operations at Emory University for the past seven years, leading strategic initiatives and business plans spanning service management, identity and access management, webhosting and research IT, integration, and database management.

Joe Hetrick has accepted the position of senior director of ITS Research Services (ITS-RS), following a competitive national search. Hetrick has served as the interim director of ITS-RS since June and for the past four years led the Research Services Advanced Computing Support Team responsible for providing High Performance Computing, Research Storage, and Interactive Data Analytics services.  

Deputy Information Security Officer Zach Furst will become the new Chief Information Security Officer Aug. 1. Shari Lewison will remain in ISPO, continuing work on initiatives with which she is involved and working to ensure a smooth transition. Lewison initiated the change as she begins to plan for retirement, to ensure continuity and stability in the role.

Information Technology Services (ITS) welcomes Brandon Mills as the new leader of the Enterprise Services Custom Solutions and Integrations (CSI) applications team, effective July 1, 2021.

Brian Finley set out to help family members find COVID-19 vaccines. But the Twitter feed he created acquired nearly 28,000 followers and became a go-to resource for Iowans looking to get vaccinated.

Several professionals from the OneIT community won Improving Our Workplace Awards (IOWA) in recognition of innovative projects that have a lasting positive impact on the institution.

An Extended Technical Support (ETS) consultant delivers on-site upgrades at the Iowa Robotic Observatory, a telescope about 1,500 miles from the University of Iowa campus, under the dark night skies of southern Arizona.

Jonna Higgins-Freese will lead the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology Instructional Services team, managing the daily work, planning, and cross-functional teams for multiple enterprise instructional technology services including the campus-wide learning management system (ICON), academic technology consulting, and the Learning Design Collaboratory initiative.

Information Technology Services-Research Services (RS) is participating in the Kirkwood Community College Workplace Learning Connection program, which exposes high school students to high-tech careers and aligns with the university's efforts to develop, recruit, and retain talent for hard-to-fill research computing positions.