The people who provide IT services at UW‑Madison are working every hour of every day to help support the Wisconsin Idea so that the university can help improve people’s lives beyond the classroom.
Chief Information Officer & Vice Provost for Information Technology
Lois Brooks
Email: lois.brooks@wisc.edu
Lois Brooks joined UW–Madison in August 2018 as vice provost for information technology and chief information officer. Prior to that she served as Oregon State University’s vice provost for information services and chief information officer.
She is active nationally in the higher education community, having served in leadership and governance roles with the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium, Unizin, Educause Learning Initiative, and Internet2.
She also served for many years at Stanford University, most recently as Director of Academic Computing. During her tenure at Stanford she co-founded the Sakai Foundation (now Apareo), serving on the Board of Directors and later as Executive Director.
View “From the CIO” — a collection of Lois’ presentations, articles and thought leadership, with links to regional and national organizations she serves and participates in.
Who does IT@UW-Madison?
Division of Information Technology
DoIT is a center of campus IT operations, providing IT services & support to faculty, staff and students as well as their schools, divisions, departments and units.
More campus IT providers
A variety of other IT providers are distributed across campus, performing IT functions and providing IT services for schools, divisions, departments and units.
Example of ongoing work
From large scale projects to everyday learning opportunities, UW–Madison IT professionals support the mission of teaching, research and service with innovative and creative solutions.
Interested in working at UW–Madison?
IT news
How to host inclusive hybrid meetings
As we adapt to hybrid working situations, it’s important to try and create an inclusive, collaborative and productive work environment. Continue Reading How to host inclusive hybrid meetings
UW–Madison Zoom Implementation Roadmap Update
From outreach to documentation, here is the latest news from the UW–Madison Zoom implementation team at DoIT, with support of the Zoom advisory group. Continue Reading UW–Madison Zoom Implementation Roadmap Update
Join Us For “CommunITea”
Thursdays at 3:30pm via Zoom. Previous topics have included made-up languages (like Klingon), home brewing, travel tips, Jupyter, hybrid meetings, hanging out at the South Pole, and, of course, pets! Continue Reading Join Us For “CommunITea”
Register For Upcoming Cybersecurity Forward Presentations
Aug 4: Privacy: Friend or Foe? Ken Ries, UW-River Falls and UW-Stout. Aug 11: What Is Zero Trust? The Role of Continuously Assessing Device and Identity Health, Eric Wing, Trend Micro. Continue Reading Register For Upcoming Cybersecurity Forward Presentations
Why caption your virtual meetings?
Transcripts are text versions of media content, most commonly used for making audio content accessible. Here are ways to provide your whole audience with what they need to get your message. Continue Reading Why caption your virtual meetings?
