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As AI reshapes education, faculty must move beyond the hype to understand its real-world impact in the classroom. This webinar explores AI’s promise and challenges, offering practical strategies for integrating AI effectively.

Researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco pursuing new approaches to computational health convened an April 29 conference to share progress and challenges in connecting disparate healthcare data to improve clinical decision-making and patient outcomes.

To our One IT community,

Due to the planned strike for UPTE on May 1, IT Client Services (ITCS) anticipates reduced staffing levels, impacting our ability to provide technical support to faculty and staff. Our ITCS team consists of primarily represented staff under the UPTE Technical Unit - TX. Please expect delays from the IT Service Desk, procurement, provisioning, and desktop support. We will prioritize urgent issues and respond as quickly as possible, but service levels will be impacted as follows: 

To our campus community,

Dear campus community,

Berkeley IT invites you to take our first campus-wide survey to help us better understand how well we are meeting your core technology service needs (e.g. Wi-Fi, online collaboration, helpdesk, etc.). Your input will be shared with technology governance committees and incorporated into planning and decision-making.

The survey takes less than 10 minutes. Twenty (20) participants will be randomly selected to win a $50 Amazon gift card. All responses will remain confidential.

As an undergraduate mathematics student 14 years ago, Jacob Steinhardt(link is external) began to consider a future where artificial intelligence would automate most cognitive work, which he thought could have an even bigger impact than the Industrial Revolution. 

Dear Berkeley Community,

Effective April 8, all employees whose annual Cyber Security Awareness training is overdue will encounter an interruptive screen during campus system login, displaying a notification of their past-due status. You will not see this screen if your training is up to date.

To our One IT community,

Due to the planned strike for UPTE on April 1, IT Client Services (ITCS) anticipates reduced staffing levels, impacting our ability to provide technical support to faculty and staff. Our ITCS team consists of primarily represented staff under the UPTE Technical Unit - TX. Please expect delays from the IT Service Desk, procurement, provisioning, and desktop support. We will prioritize urgent issues and respond as quickly as possible, but service levels will be impacted as follows: 

McKalee Steen(link is external) traces her career in data science to her family's efforts toward environmental justice when the creek running through their farm in northeastern Oklahoma had been polluted by a chicken processing plant and was contaminating their well water. Her community fought to hold the company accountable, and a neighbor who was a scientist helped collect water samples, generating data that led to a legal settlement.

One IT colleagues,

The bConnected team is announcing a significant update to the management of alumni @berkeley.edu(link is external) email accounts. Aiming to simplify the process for alumni to maintain their accounts, a new activity requirement will replace the previous renewal system, effective April 15, 2025.

When Gašper Beguš(link is external) began studying linguistics, he spent his time deciphering ancient, largely dead languages. “Nobody cared about linguistics,” he says in this episode of 101 in 101(link is external), a series from UC Berkeley that challenges professors and other experts to distill the basics of their field of study into only 101 seconds.