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ITS Team Member Serves as Early Career Program Chair

Inspiring and mentoring the next generation of information technology employees is no small feat. ITS team member Dr. Marina Kraeva is ready for that opportunity at a global level. Kraeva, a member of the ITS High Performance Computing team, will lead the Early Career Program at the 2022 international supercomputer conferencing Nov. 13-18 in Dallas, Texas.

What is the international supercomputing conference?

Visitors to Iowa State websites may have noticed an improvement in the last year – a 17.6% improvement to be exact, thanks to the Siteimprove software tool designed for improving web accessibility.

In May 2021, Information Technology Services launched the Siteimprove software for use across the university. The software allows web managers and editors to analyze their websites for accessibility issues such as lack of alternative text, navigation issues, broken links and more.

Amenda Tate’s dance film Sapient_2.021 is an official selection of the X World Short Film Festival in Rome, Italy, on Sept 3, 2022, and is an award finalist in three categories

When forced into pandemic isolation along with much of the world, Artist Amenda Tate created Sapient_2.021, an experimental short film combining dance, robotics, and visual art to explore labor, control, empathy, and humanity in a tech-saturated world. 

Have you received an email about financial or retirement planning?  

As reported by Inside Iowa State, many university faculty and staff have recently received email messages offering financial or retirement planning services, from a sender named “Alexa Brown.” However, these messages are not connected with or endorsed by the university.

These messages offer consultations about topics that include retirement income and Medicare coverage. The messages also refers to recipients as “valued employee[s] of Iowa State University.”

Bahar Hashemi, a senior employed by Information Technology Services, has been named the 2021-22 Iowa State University Student Employee of the Year.

March 25, 2022, 10:55 a.m. (ITS page updated)

Okta has confirmed that Iowa State accounts were not affected as part of their security compromise. The ITS Security team also reviewed Okta account activity logs and also came to the same conclusion. The team has concluded its investigation into this incident and does not plan to provide any additional updates. 

March 23, 2022, 9:40 a.m. (ITS page updated)

Okta posted update on their website.

With numerous high-profile cases making recent headlines, ransomware may seem like a new phenomenon. That's only half right. The threats criminals are making are relatively new, but the methods they're using to breach computers are old standbys, the head of ISU's cybersecurity team told the Professional and Scientific Council at its Nov. 3 meeting.

Read the full story on Inside Iowa State

More than 4,970 new access points replaced or installed for more robust internet performance

As the fall 2021 semester kicks off, students have access to new and improved on-campus technology resources including updated internet connections and classroom equipment. The upgrades are the result of several ITS projects aligned with the university’s “back-to-better" goals.

Before the pandemic, only 17 of Iowa State's largest classrooms were outfitted to record and livestream audio and video. As of this fall, all 214 general university classrooms have a video camera system, a rapid adoption of lecture capture technology that's especially useful for hybrid and virtual instruction.

Read the full article on Inside Iowa State.

The days of a king or queen from a faraway land sending tremendous riches for responding to an email with your bank account number are not as numerous. It's not because scammers have gone away. They are just more sophisticated.

Read the full article on Inside Iowa State.