News Archive
Take the Cyber Security Quiz!
October is Cyber Security Awareness month! As a faculty member or staff at UBC, you may have access to a significant amount of sensitive personal information, such as student or employee information and financial expense data. An information b
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MATLAB Free For UBC Students
MATLAB is now available to active and registered UBC students at no cost!
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Virtual Reality Lab Opens at UBC Studios
Virtual reality (VR) has historically been viewed as an important next-step in the gaming world. However, it also opens up exciting opportunities in education to broaden the scope of learning.
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New UBC IT Bulletins Page!
UBC IT is updating the IT Bulletins platform and user interface to enhance usability and security. The IT Bulletins page provides the latest updates on service outages and upcoming service maintenance.
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IT @ UBC Town Hall
UBC IT is hosting its inaugural "IT @ UBC Town Hall" on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at CIRS Building, Room 1250 from 9:00am to 11:00am, focusing on the topic of strategy and transformation of IT deliver
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UBC IT Talks: Leading Change in a Digital World
UBC IT will be hosting a presentation and panel discussion on "leading change in a digital world" on Friday, April 29, 2016 from 9:00am - 11:30am in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Building (Room 1101).
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UBC IT 2014/15 Annual Report is here!
UBC IT’s 2014/15 Annual Report is now available! The report highlights our operations and accomplishments this past year for the UBC community through collaboration and innovation. Some of our features for this year’s report include:
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Gather Feedback With UBC Survey Tool
Regardless how you are involved with UBC, working with confidential information and gathering information for research and feedback are essential tasks.
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Prevent future data breaches! Follow UBC Policy and Encryption Requirements
The BC Ministry of Education has recently announced that an unencrypted hard drive containing 3.4 million of student records from 1986 to 2009 has been misplaced.
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Jennifer Burns named UBC’s new CIO
Jennifer Burns was named the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at The University of British Columbia on August 1, 2015.
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