One aspect of protecting yourself from cybercriminals is learning to spot a scam—being very skeptical of too-good-to-be-true offers, urgent pleas for money, or warnings that your account is over quota or compromised. If an email is at all suspicious...

The university is piloting a new function in its custom-built student record system that will allow students to join wait lists for courses that are full and receive notifications as slots open up. The system also checks students’ eligibility to...

More than 5,000 first-year students have been using Microsoft Office 365 for e-mail since the beginning of fall semester, and second-year students will make the switch—which means larger mailboxes and a full portfolio of communication and...

A series of convincing scams is tricking UI e-mail users into providing their login or other personal information to data thieves, and the IT security office urges the campus to exercise caution. The latest scams have used familiar terms like ITS...

As you settle into a new semester, Information Technology Services (ITS) invites you to explore and make use of the exciting technology resources and helpful IT services that are available to students. Learning Commons: Stop by the Main Library to...

Building on the success of its first high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, the University of Iowa is now building a second “supercomputer” that will be available to researchers early next year. The UI’s first HPC cluster, Helium, came online in...

University of Iowa Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer Steve Fleagle has been elected to the Board of Trustees for Internet2 , an influential consortium in the technology world. Internet2 is an international community of leaders...

In the first week of classes alone, the Information Technology Services Help Desk assisted nearly 5,600 faculty, staff, and students with technology questions—about 3½ times the volume of a typical week in the semester. Help Desk staff responded to...