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Spring/Summer Software Requests (Nov. 15)

October 28, 2024

If you need additional programs for your Spring or Summer classes, you may submit your requests to Information Services via our online form through November 15. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-10-28, Issues Tagged With: Information Services

October Zoom Update

October 25, 2024

For information on Zoom updates and how Zoom is addressing AI, check out our October Techtalk Post!

Filed Under: 2024-10-28, Issues Tagged With: Information Services, Tech Talk blog

NETWORK MAINTENANCE (Oct. 17)

October 11, 2024

Information Services will be performing network maintenance from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. on Thursday, October 17. This will impact both wired and WiFi connections and users may experience intermittent issues accessing the internet through the campus network. UP internet resources, such as PilotsUP and the UP website will also be inaccessible intermittently during this maintenance window. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-10-14, Issues Tagged With: Information Services

WIFI SYSTEM MAINTENANCE (Oct. 14)

September 30, 2024

Information Services will be performing WiFi system maintenance from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. on Monday, October 14.  During this window users may experience intermittent authentication issues with campus WiFi networks (UPStaff, UPStudent, UPGuest, UPIoT) and wired network connections in campus dorms. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-09-30, Issues Tagged With: Information Services

September 2024 Zoom Update

September 30, 2024

We hope that this message finds you well as we have settled into the Fall term. You can now head on over to the Techtalk blog for your monthly installment of Zoom new features and update information. As always, thank you for reading and helping us keep applications up to date!

Filed Under: 2024-09-30, Issues Tagged With: Information Services, Tech Talk blog

IS Network Maintenance (Sept. 3)

August 30, 2024

Information Services will be performing software upgrades on our security appliances that control authentication to campus WiFi networks, wired Dorm Ethernet, and VPN services from 4:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 3. During this window users may experience short term authentication issues that should resolve within 5-10 minutes. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-09-02, Issues Tagged With: Information Services

Moodle Upgrade (Aug. 8)

July 22, 2024

A Moodle upgrade is scheduled for August 8. Moodle will be unavailable from Thursday, August 8, through Monday, August 12. This upgrade will see an updated user interface and some major improvements in several key features. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-07-22, 2024-08-05, Issues Tagged With: ATSI, Information Services, Moodle

2024-2025 Cybersecurity Training Reminder

June 24, 2024

The Cybersecurity Training Course for 2024-2025 is now available for all faculty, staff, and student workers in the Moodle dashboard.  This annual training program is focused on educating users on computer security best-practices and reducing cyber risk to the University. The training is required by the Department of Education to maintain our ability to provide student loans and it is strongly encouraged for student workers. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-06-24, 2024-07-08, Issues Tagged With: Cyber Security, Information Services

March Zoom Update

April 1, 2024

We hope this finds you well- we are already past the halfway point of the term! TechTalk’s monthly Zoom blog post for March, is now available- with exciting information on better recording availability via the link to Kaltura Mediaspace for those hosting Zoom meetings with multiple hosts. (Read More).

Filed Under: 04-01-2024, 2024-04-01, Issues Tagged With: Information Services, Zoom

Spring Software Requests (Nov. 30)

November 20, 2023

Student typing on laptop

As we move through Spring registration and get a sense for the Spring term to come, it is time to make sure that you will have the software that you need to teach your students in the classroom. Requests are due by the end of the day on Thursday, November 30. (Read More)

Filed Under: 11-20-2023, Issues Tagged With: Information Services

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Jeff Kerssen-Griep, Communication and Media, presented “Teaching with Transformative International Conflict Partners” on the panel, “Healing Divides and Elevating Connections within Conflict & Peacebuilding.” National Communication Association Convention. November, 2025.

Christi Richardson-Zboralski, Director of Marketing – Graduate Programs, published a short story under pen name, Christi R. Suzanne, entitled “Outlaw’s Dust.” In Lisa Diane Kastner (Ed.) 27 Stories: An LA Wildfire Anthology. Running Wild Press. January 7, 2026. All proceeds from this anthology go toward Habitat for Humanity LA. Find it on the Broadway Books website or on Bookshop.org.

Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

Jessica Murphy Moo, editor of Portland Magazine and director of storytelling, wrote the lyrics to two songs in “We Go On, Oswego,” a song cycle honoring female refugees who lived at Camp Ontario in upstate New York. From 1944-1946, Camp Ontario provided emergency shelter to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. “We Go On, Oswego” was performed at Nazareth College, in collaboration with Finger Lakes Opera, on December 4, 2025. It was commissioned by Katie Hannigan, PhD. The song “There Is No Underground,” was written in collaboration with composer Maria Thompson Corley, and the song “My Table,” was written in collaboration with composer Kurt Erickson.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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