Feature Stories

UITS Research Technologies has been featured in two very different arenas recently—one in scientific papers on running simulations for NASA's next space telescope and one in an interview on the journey to an HPC career.

University of Arizona’s Student Aid for Field Epidemiology Response (SAFER) recently implemented a new calling solution to better serve the needs of Arizona’s COVID Pandemic incident response. Amazon Connect provided a quick solution that ensured continuous SAFER team access as support staff were moved to remote locations.

Finding ways for teams to stay connected while working remotely can have challenges, but the University of Arizona’s IT Community has continued their mutual support to colleges and departments across campus through a daily Zoom continuity meeting.

Developers and business analysts on the UITS UAccess Employee team install, monitor, and coordinate changes to the university’s employee workforce system. For 2020 this included UCAP.

In the largest plant genome project to date, an international consortium of researchers generated gene sequences from more than 1,100 species, providing a framework for 1 billion years of green plant evolution. The data are available in the CyVerse Data Commons.

Two dynamic keynote speakers fired up the record crowd of 630 attendees at the seventh annual IT Summit.