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Design-a-thon Winners: Celebrating Innovation in VR and Imagination at UCI
UCI’s first virtual-reality sponsored event encourages students to explore the possibilities of immersive technology.
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Zotsites: The UCI Search Engine Empowering Students to Navigate Campus
By delivering a convenient suite of student-focused tools, Zotsites aims to bring Anteaters closer to each other, and to the campus around them.
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UC Irvine Embraces AI with Launch of ZotGPT for Students
With 'ZotGPT' now released to students, UC Irvine shows its commitment to embracing bold leaps in technology. Custom-made to support UC Irvine’s emerging generative AI needs, ZotGPT is UCI’s answer to the data privacy and governance concerns regarding third-party AI services, while still offering users the capabilities found in the latest GPT large-language models.
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Innovation in Action: UCI's Work Reimagined 2.0 Pitch Competition Crowns Winner
On June 4th, UCI held its much-anticipated Spring Forward Campaign Finale, a featured event of the Work Reimagined 2.0 initiative. This initiative fosters an environment where every employee feels encouraged and empowered to propose ideas that enhance efficiency across departments, units, and schools. 
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UC Irvine Introduces Innovative AI Solution: ZotGPT Chat
In January of this year, UC Irvine introduced ZotGPT Chat to faculty and staff–a customized generative artificial intelligence solution designed to enhance the academic institution's technological capabilities. The AI tool, tailored for the UCI community, will extend access to students later this year.
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IT Leadership Academy ensures UC Irvine’s place at the forefront of digital world
During the most recent event, which was held from February 5 - 9, more than 70 UCI and UCI Health staff members learned about digital transformation, strategizing around artificial intelligence, creative problem solving, conflict management, and collaboration.
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New Hub Info Sessions Elevate Tech Skills and Networking at UCI
Intended to increase access to experiential learning, these monthly gatherings feature presentations and workshops by The Hub's tech partners including ServiceNow, AWS, Soul Machines, Microsoft, Udemy, Siemens, Salesforce and many other industry leaders. 
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Paul Merage School of Business launches digital twin ‘metaversity’
A new era of immersive and 3D classrooms will enable students in UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business to learn in a virtual reality environment. In partnership with VictoryXR, the school is creating a cutting-edge digital twin, known as a metaversity, that will facilitate collaboration between students and professors in a simulated campus setting.
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The Hub Expands its Reach: Launching a New Space at UCI's ANTrepreneur Center
The Office of Data and Information Technology (ODIT) is thrilled to announce the launch of a new space at the ANTrepreneur Center called The Hub. This expansion marks a significant milestone for the program's goal of putting cutting-edge technology in the hands of students, faculty, and staff.
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UC Irvine joins Unizin consortium to enhance student success
Collaborative approach fosters knowledge sharing, yields scalable solutions
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Build a business, save the world
UCI students participate in the Sustainability Challenge to develop Earth-friendly startups
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UCI Waypoints Symposium launches national dialogue on data driven student success
Leaders from over 30 higher education institutions gathered to engage on challenges and best practices
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UCI CODAS Selected as 2022 EDUCAUSE Exemplar

Learn more about this recognition and how UCI CODAS takes a collaborative approach to addressing student equity gaps in higher education

IPH co-director Leslie Thompson, with fellow co-director Tom Andriola
UCI announces launch of Institute for Precision Health
Individually tailored wellness approach is giant leap in patient control, improved outcomes
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UCI is among founding members of national coalition to improve clinical trials
ACT@POC aims to boost efficiency, accessibility and participant diversity to benefit patients
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UCI and Syntropy Announce Five-Year Strategic Partnership to Improve Patient Care Through Unprecedented Data Integration
Academic partnership aims to empower researchers to drive scientific innovation through revolutionary utilization of health data
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Bringing Inclusive Language into IT
The document guides terminology choices in the technical world, but its intention is broader.
Kian Colestock, CIO
Kian Colestock Named Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer
Kian Colestock was named associate vice chancellor and chief information officer, effective May 1, 2021. He will report to Vice Chancellor Tom Andriola.
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When everyone must separate, technology keeps us together
UCI's Office of Information Technology had a hand in every aspect of UCI's move to a remote environment, and now is poising the university to come back.
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Announcing Women in Technology at UCI Organization
Women in Technology at UCI is new diversity affinity group that aims to connect, inspire, and empower women working, researching and teaching in technology-related fields throughout our enterprise.
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Facilitating Teaching and Learning in a COVID-19 Environment
Transitioning thousands of courses to a virtual format is no small task, and just as other institutions of higher education around the world, the faculty of UCI faced the enormous task with just a few days to prepare.
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UCI Supports Students with Free Technological Resources

With this program, OIT and SSI looked to provide free laptop and equipment loans to students who lacked access to key remote learning tools. 

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UCI Health OnCall app launched to provide telehealth services to region

The telehealth service provides around-the-clock access to urgent primary care consultation via phone or video for current and potentially new UCI Health patients in Orange County and across the United States.

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Tom Andriola is named UCI vice chancellor of information technology and data
Andriola will work closely with campus and healthcare leaders to explore opportunities for technology and data to drive innovation and enhance the missions of teaching, research, patient care and public service.