IT Spotlight
A spotlight on the awesome things our OSU IT teams are doing across the university.
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Breaking barriers for women in IT
In the spring of 2022, the University Information and Technology Executive Team led by Chief Information Officer Andrea Ballinger nominated six women from OSU to attend a five-week EDUCAUSE series for central IT workers called Women Advance Technology. Throughout the series, the cohort had a chance to reflect on the challenges, obstacles and opportunities they had encountered in their careers. As they continued to meet, they saw an opportunity to create a community of support and provide more resources for women working in IT roles at OSU. Because as they compared notes and shared their experiences, they realized that the barriers they’d encountered weren’t unique. It wasn’t “just me.” Other women were having parallel experiences, leading to self-doubt, burnout, retention issues and additional stress at work.
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Closing the gap between students and seawater
Over this past year, UIT Academic Technologies partnered with the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport to upgrade the seawater classrooms with state-of-the-art camera systems and technology that will enable students to engage in hands-on-learning from anywhere in the world.
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Snail Traps + Bird Boxes: How Roots IT enables researchers
In the College of Agricultural Sciences, Roots IT works to solve problems and enable technical support for researchers, providing ways of capturing and storing data while out in the field as well as providing for on-campus needs.