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.
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IT news
UW–Madison Zoom Implementation Roadmap, Oct 29 Update
Personal account and service account migrations to the UW–Madison instance of Zoom are progressing. Read more about this and other updates on the weekly UW–Madison Zoom Implementation Roadmap. Continue Reading UW–Madison Zoom Implementation Roadmap, Oct 29 Update
DoIT encouraging @wisc.edu Zoom users to join UW–Madison Zoom
If you haven't signed in to UW-Madison Zoom using SSO and NetID, you haven't officially joined. That's the message in DoIT emails to Badgers this month. Continue Reading DoIT encouraging @wisc.edu Zoom users to join UW–Madison Zoom
Move WiscList Main Lists Now: Automatic Migration Begins Nov 16
WiscList list administrators need to move their lists now, or they will be moved by our team beginning November 16. Continue Reading Move WiscList Main Lists Now: Automatic Migration Begins Nov 16
UW–Madison Zoom Implementation Roadmap, Oct 22 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, Oct 22 Update
RStudio Team Pilot
The Research Cyberinfrastructure group is conducting a pilot of the RStudio Team service for researchers on the UW–Madison campus May 2020-April 2021. Continue Reading RStudio Team Pilot