Dear IT community,
Effective August 17, 2025, UC Berkeley will implement age-based restrictions on Google Workspace for Education accounts in order to comply with Google’s Terms of Service. These restrictions are required to ensure compliance with privacy and safety regulations that protect minors when parental consent has not been obtained.
IT Colleagues and Campus Partners,
As we prepare to ramp up technical support for instruction during the summer sessions' final exam period and the beginning of the fall semester, we are implementing our customary IT change freezes on production changes for UC Berkeley systems. These freezes enable us to provide optimal IT service and systems performance for our campus and minimize potential disruptions during peak periods of academic activity when our services are in greater demand.
Starting on August 10, an updated UC Berkeley logo will appear on all login screens for accessing campus systems. This is part of campus-wide efforts to update all digital assets since the launch of our new brand last summer. Being diligent in our awareness of phishing scams, here is a side-by-side comparison of the current and new screens:
A recent discussion at the National Workshop on Data Science Education illustrated the value of open conversation about the impact of AI on humanity.
The Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT) announced that Jennifer Tour Chayes has been awarded the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing.
In an evaluation of more than 2,250 universities around the world, Berkeley ranked sixth overall.
“The Roadmap to Community Cyber Defense: A Path Forward from the Cyber Resilience Corps” — authored by Sarah Powazek, Director of CLTC’s Public Interest Cybersecurity Program, and Grace Menna, Public Interest Cybersecurity Fellow — is based on findings from the first year of operations of the Cyber Resilience Corps, an initiative co-chaired by CLTC and
“Student-to-Staff” is a series featuring stories from Cal alumni who are now career employees in One IT. This series was created to show the importance of investing in our student staff and how vital their work is to the university and its mission.
Dear Berkeley faculty and staff,
This message provides important guidance regarding the use of artificial intelligence tools and announces that Google Gemini is now available as a University-supported service for all faculty and staff.
On June 5, the One IT community came together once again at UC Berkeley’s Faculty Glade for its annual picnic. What began in 2022 as a post-pandemic tradition has become a much-anticipated summer celebration.
Dear Berkeley faculty and staff,
To address security and privacy issues across the Berkeley campus related to the use of generative AI, we write to announce two tools that will become available to all Berkeley faculty and staff starting in June:
Dear One IT Colleagues,
The UC Office of the President is hosting an informational session on Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) on June 10 from 12 to 1 p.m. This session will cover questions related to EDR implementation, including those concerning academic work and privacy. A CalMessage invitation was sent to the Academic Senate and academic non-student appointees yesterday.
The NERSC-10 system at Berkeley Lab will accelerate DOE Office of Science research in an era of rapidly advancing simulation, data, and AI capabilities
It's essential for the Berkeley community to stay alert and to watch out for these types of threat actors. Together, we can create a strong defense.
Sign up for the UC-provided free identity monitoring through Experian.
To our campus community,
Heads up! There is another phishing campaign targeting the payroll payments of University of California employees, including faculty, staff, and students. Attackers are attempting to reroute UCPath Direct Deposit payments by stealing login credentials.
These attacks are sophisticated and use both old and new tactics:
A newborn boy, KJ, was diagnosed at birth with a rare and potentially fatal genetic disease. He received a novel, on-demand CRISPR therapy in record time.
For first-year student Shruti Sahoo, UC Berkeley’s campus seemed to sport a divide: on one side, highly politically engaged students, and on the other, those focused on being part of the cutting edge of technological innovation.
