This year, UBC IT participated in Pink Shirt Day for the first time by hosting a selfie photo booth where staff could take pictures of themselves wearing pink. Highlighting this year's Pink Shirt Day theme of "lift each other up," staff submitted answers on how they lift their teammates up when…
On Monday, January 27, representatives from UBC and Amazon Web Services (AWS) celebrated the officially opening of the UBC Community Health and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) space at the Vancouver campus. The UBC CIC, powered by AWS, is the first of its kind in Canada and supports…
UBC researchers in all disciplines are invited to apply to access UBC’s advanced research computing infrastructure, UBC ARC Sockeye. The first application deadline for resource allocation in 2020/21 is January 24, 2020.Sockeye is a high-performance computing platform that will address…
For January, the Privacy Matters @ UBC team has developed a week of programming in recognition of International Data Privacy (IDP) Day. IDP occurs every year on January 28, and is an international effort to empower individuals and institutions to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust. …
2019 was another breakthrough year for UBC IT, filled with new initiatives, enhancement on information security, winning awards, and reaching new milestones. We would like to thank and acknowledge our staff and colleagues for their contribution and dedication to supporting IT at UBC. Below…
This month, UBC's Emerging Media Lab is hosting a free two-hour 3D modelling workshop as part of their monthly lecture series. UBC staff, faculty and students are welcome to attend. Presented by Sarah Roland, a 3D generalist for VR company Metanaut, this workshop will teach the basics of modeling…
As of November 5, UBC is the first campus in Canada to be fully outfitted with 5G wireless technology as part of its multi-million dollar partnership with Rogers Communications. The campus now includes 5G towers and a data centre used by researchers to test 5G applications in a real-world setting…
The 2nd annual Privacy Matters @ UBC Symposium on Tuesday, October 29 was an overwhelming success! Nearly 250 staff and faculty joined in-person and online to hear about Privacy and Security initiatives being undertaken by the Privacy and Information Security Management (PrISM) team…
Did you know that the Google Streetview photos of UBC Vancouver Campus haven’t been updated since 2011? It was still showing Main Mall when it was a drivable road! We’re pleased to announce that over the course of July 2019, UBC IT’s on-campus digital media production…
Do you use Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Creative Cloud? If so, you should be aware that Adobe has updated their application licensing technology this past year to enhance user capabilities and experience. This change impacts all UBC staff and faculty that has UBC subscribed Adobe software…
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