Feature Stories

Darcy Van Patten was on stage in front of 2,500 university professionals, a pre-keynote speaker at Salesforce’s Higher Education Summit. Only four months into developing Salesforce services for the UA—none of them yet launched—what did she say to the audience?

What would the Messier 87 black hole look like? UA researchers Dimitrios Psaltis, Feryal Ozel, Chi-kwan Chan, and Lia Medeiros used the El Gato system in the Computer Center's Research Data Center to model it before processing of the Event Horizon Telescope data was completed.

UA researchers and students are able to use campus computing resources to advance their work. Meet a graduate student who was able to complete her research into population genetics without grants, an astronomer who has processing power immediately available to run computations on the physics of galaxy formation, and a neuroscientist processing big, complex data to investigate Alzheimer's.

Over 600 people attended the sixth annual summit, where IT and related professionals from across campus learned from each other and from industry specialists about campus projects, services, processes, and tools.

The Annual Report for University Information Technology Services’ initiatives and activity during fiscal year 2018 is now available online. Find out what accomplishments UITS and campus partners achieved in 2017-18.