Automated account request system eases process

February 27, 2007 | In News , Spotlight On , Bulletin Board
A new system that automates the creation of trust and special funds accounts will roll out campus-wide on Monday, March 5.

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M2 project highlighted in The Chronicle

February 26, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board
The Memex Metadata (M2) project is featured in the Feb. 9 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. M2 is a joint project between UNC SILS, UNC Biology, and ITS. The project also receives support from Microsoft Research. The Chronicle provides a 5-day free link for non-subscribers.

People in transition

February 23, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board , HR Announcements
Welcome David Culp to Financial Planning and Human Resources, effective Feb. 19.

ConsiderIT explores Second Life

February 22, 2007 | In News , Spotlight On , Bulletin Board
The Feb. 21 ConsiderIT session drew 70 faculty, staff, students and guests who wanted to learn about the virtual learning environment, Second Life. Second Life provides a unique virtual environment for educators interested in increasing interactive learning, exploration, cooperative work, simulation, role-playing, new media studies and training. There are currently over 2.5 million subscribers to Second Life including educators and students from such institutions as Harvard, MIT and Princeton. Kathy Kyzer, Teaching and Learning, and her avatar lead a tour of Second Life.

January On the Spot awards announced

February 21, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board , HR Announcements
Each month, ITS staff who have gone above and beyond the call of duty are honored with an On the Spot award. The January award winners include the following:

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UNC-Chapel Hill selected to participate in course redesign

February 20, 2007 | In News , Spotlight On , Bulletin Board
UNC-Chapel Hill, through a proposal submitted by the Provost’s Office, ITS Teaching and Learning and the Romance Languages Department, has been selected by the National Center for Academic Transformation to participate in the first round of its Colleagues Committed to Redesign (C2R) program.

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ERP RFI for Implementation Services released

February 16, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board
The UNC-Chapel Hill Request for Information (RFI) for Implementation Services has been released. The RFI informs vendors about the University's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation needs and expectations and allows them to supply basic information about what they can provide. Vendor responses are due March 15, 2007.

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Lenovo to supply CCI program under new contract

February 15, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board , Newsflash

Lenovo will supply desktop and laptop computers to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill community through the Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) under a new four-year contract.


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Distributed computing lecture

February 14, 2007 | In Events
Miron Livny, a professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin and a well-known expert on distributed processing and high throughput computing, will provide an overview of two national distributed computing facilities on Feb. 23 at 10:15 a.m. in 011 Sitterson Hall.

Oracle's PeopleSoft chosen for student ERP applications

February 14, 2007 | In News , Bulletin Board , Newsflash
Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise student applications has been selected as the software foundation for the first phase of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project, which will replace the University’s aging administrative software systems serving students.

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