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Meet the winners of the 2025 IT Recognition Awards

University IT professionals celebrated the exceptional achievements of their peers at the 6th annual UW–‍Madison IT Recognition Awards on May 29 during the IT Professionals Conference. Meet this year’s honorees.

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IT never sleeps. There’s always news to share. Here’s the latest from our digital campus and beyond.

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June 20: Join us for CIO Lois Brooks’ final Virtual Office Hours

Fridays, 9:15am via Zoom. June 20 will be the final Office Hours for retiring Chief Information Officer and Vice Provost for Information Technology Lois Brooks. June 20 is also her last day with UW–‍Madison.

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Welcome to Madison: IT community’s recommendations for UW’s new CIO

The UW–‍Madison IT community gave incoming CIO Didier Contis a fantastic primer on things to do and places to eat in the campus area as he and his family prepare to move to Madison.

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Learn & grow with EDUCAUSE

From a chatbots demo day to a symposium about centering accessibility in teaching and learning, take advantage of professional development opportunities from EDUCAUSE.

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Enhancing Online Education summer programs

Designed specially for instructors teaching online and hybrid courses, this series explores 6 foundational topics to promote student engagement and success. In July, check out sessions on fostering community and course management.

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Exploring AI in teaching

June 27, 1pm via Zoom. Ben Rush from Radiology will discuss prompt engineering principles, and demonstrate brainstorming and real-time problem solving with Copilot and ChatGPT. Explore this session and other summer programs.

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Learn@UW Newsletter, week of June 13

What’s happening? Honorlock – Update released, June 9 The latest release for the Honorlock web application and extension brings several improvements impacting performance and accessibility. For all the …

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Social media for all of us: Making content accessible & inclusive

Join this UW Design Community session for insights on best practices for social media design—and why making your sites more accessible benefits every part of your work. June 18, 3pm via Zoom.

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Watch recordings from the 2025 IT Professionals Conference

This year’s hybrid conference featured 20+ thought-provoking IT-focused sessions, the IT Recognition Awards and a keynote by CIO Lois Brooks. Did you attend? Complete our survey to share your experience and help shape next year's event.

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Free retirement resources for UW–‍Madison employees

As university employees, we can take advantage of free retirement planning services from UW–‍Madison Benefits. But you may also get emails from non‑UW retirement services looking to solicit information. Know the difference.

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MFA-Duo updates

On June 2, important updates were made to the Duo multi-factor authentication (MFA) service. Find out what changed—and how it will improve your login experience and better protect your NetID account.

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Take a Workday break: IT Connects networking event June 24

IT Connects is pleased to invite UW–‍Madison IT employees to take a break with us at our summer networking event. Tue, June 24, 3pm to 5pm, Memorial Union Terrace.

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Learn@UW Newsletter, week of May 30

What’s happening? Atomic Assessments – New features Two new functionalities were recently added to Atomic Assessments. Adaptive assessments. There is now an assessment type called adaptive assessment, which …

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