The second annual Kate Regan Short Film Festival will take place on Thursday, March 26, from 5 to 7 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons board room. The festival will feature works from UP students, faculty, and staff in five categories: Narrative, Humor, International, Documentary, or Animation. Join with the campus community for a celebration of […]
Information Services
Need A Haircut? Help Childhood Cancer Research, March 20
The UP men’s soccer team will sponsor their annual St. Baldrick’s head-shaving event in support of childhood cancer research on Friday, March 20, according to Jacob Caniparoli, information services. All faculty and staff are welcome to participate. There are two ways to aid this fundraising effort. The first is to join the Faculty/Staff team and […]
Dial “6” To Get Out, Starting March 18
On Wednesday, March 18, the University will change the number to dial for an outside phone line from 9 to 6. After that date, callers will no longer be able to get an outside line by dialing 9. This change is being enacted in an effort to reduce inadvertent 911 calls. For any questions or […]
Faculty Speakers Series: Jennette Lovejoy, Feb. 26
The next guest of the Faculty Speaker Series will be Jennette Lovejoy, communication studies, who will present “Social Networking in the Classroom” on Thursday, February 26, at 3 p.m., in the Clark Library classroom. Lovejoy will give a talk about an innovative project she piloted recently using Cel.ly. She challenged her students to communicate solely […]
WordPress Wednesdays Start Feb. 18
Academic technology services will offer a new weekly lab to to help UP community members work on their WordPress sites. Starting Wednesday, Feb 18, come by the information services training lab in Franz Hall room 010 to get help with websites or blogs. Technicians will cover posts, pages, menus, widgets, headers, themes, and anything else […]
Tech Talk Podcast: Transcontinental Tutoring
The University recently expanded its study-abroad options for engineering majors from a short week during the summer term to a full spring semester in Salzburg, Austria. Engineering students have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the culture and language of Austria while staying on track to graduate with their classmates by taking advantage of courses […]
Energy Trust Rewards UP For Upgrades, Sustainability Efforts
As part of information services efforts to centralize infrastructure management and lower costs, technical services has successfully virtualized a majority of campus servers and desktop infrastructure. This results in a more easily maintained environment with significantly lower energy usage in UP’s data center and at the desktop, a major step in the right direction for […]
ATS Workshop: Introduction to the Moodle Grade Book
Academic technology services will offer face-to-face training workshops in the dedicated training lab located in Franz Hall. The first of these will be a Moodle workshop covering the basics of the Moodle grade book on Monday, January 26, from 11 a.m. to noon, in Franz Hall room 010. Many faculty members are busy getting their […]
New Media Services Policy
Due to a steady increase of campus events occurring outside of the hours of operation for media services, a change in service policy will begin on January 31. After that date, all labor services provided by media services outside of core hours will incur a $20 per man-hour labor charge with a two-hour minimum. Equipment […]
Locked Out? Fix It Yourself!
Information services has launched a new self-service password reset application. All users must enroll in order to use this new tool, which will require updating their security profile by adding an alternate e-mail contact and setting up security questions. This takes just a few minutes to complete. The new app offers a convenient way to […]