Mar
26
2013

Alex Henson Begins New Role As VCU CIO »

Welcome to new VCU CIO Alex Henson!

Welcome to new VCU CIO Alex Henson!

VCU Technology Services welcomes our new chief information officer, Alex Henson, on April 1, 2013. Alex begins his life as a Ram after serving as chief operating officer and executive director for administration and operations at the University of Chicago Office of Information Technology Services. Be sure to welcome Alex as you see him moving around campus to learn more about VCU.

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Feb
6
2013

VCU TS Staff Appears On White House Social Site »

Yep, that is our own Gary Garbett featured on the www.whitehouse.gov/social site header getting friendly, as well as a close up, with Bo, the Obama family dog. Gary, kneeling to the right of Bo in the image, was at the White House last spring for a photo walk of the White House grounds coordinated by Google+. Evidently, Bo was the only Obama that W . . .
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Jan
24
2013

VCU Names New Chief Information Officer »

Alex Henson has been named the new chief information officer for VCU. Alex joins VCU by way of the University of Chicago. The official announcement can be viewed on the VCU News Center. Join us in welcoming Alex to VCU and the Technology Services team! . . .
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Jul
17
2012

Web Services Receives Award for VCU Mobile »

Scott Davis, VCU Technology Services Director of Applications Services, traveled to the Blackboard World conference last week to receive the 2012 Blackboard Catalyst Mobile Innovation Award for his team's work on VCU Mobile. VCU was one of the first schools to deploy a mobile application in 2009 to give the VCU community easy, on-the-go access to VCU re . . .
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Jul
12
2012

Additional appsforVCU Training Sessions & Getting Started Guide Available »

We are well underway on the deployment of the new faculty and staff appsforVCU email service powered by Google Apps for Education. Many faculty and staff have attended Sneak Peek sessions over the past month. We are now opening up a number of hands-on sessions for appsforVCU email and calendar. These sessions are available on-site as well as via webinar . . .
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Jun
14
2012

appsforVCU Sneak Peek Seats Still Available »

Have you signed up for an appsforVCU Sneak Peek?  appsforVCU is the Lotus Notes email and calendar replacement powered by Google Apps for Education. Seats for the Sneak Peeks have been filling up fast. We have seats available for two of the sessions this month. One on the MCV Campus (6/22/12) and one on the Monroe Park Campus (6/29/12). We will be add . . .
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May
11
2012

Mobile Innovations At VCU Leads To Blackboard Catalyst Award »

[caption id="attachment_1672" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Pictured left to right: Jonathan Cox, Scott Davis, Jim Yucha, Donghai Huangfu"][/caption] We are  pleased to announce that our Web Services team (pictured right with Scott Davis, IT Division Director for Application Services) has been honored as a Platinum Winner in the Mobile I . . .
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May
9
2012

VCUCard Wins Social Networking & Website Award At 2012 NACCU Conference »

Members of the VCUCard office attended the National Association of Campus Card Users conference in April and walked away with the Best Social Networking and/or Website Award (See image on the right). This was the first year that the award was presented which means VCUCard was the inaugural winner. Its good to be first. Besides a great website, VCUCard . . .
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Apr
23
2012

FBI to shut down Malicious DNS servers on 7/9/2012 »

By Dan Han, VCU Information Technology Officer In an effort to take down a cyber crime ring, the FBI seized a number of malicious DNS servers used by cyber criminals to serve malicious websites to workstations infected with this "DNS Changer" malware. In order to complete the take down, the FBI has replaced these malicious DNS servers with legitimate te . . .
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Apr
2
2012

Getting Ready For Tech Fair »

Tech Fair 2012 hits tomorrow and Wednesday! Hope Adams is getting us ready for the event (Image below.)  The fun starts at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, April 3rd on the Monroe Park campus in Student Commons in the Richmond Salons. We follow up with day 2 on Wednesday, April 4th, at 9 a.m. on the MCV campus at TML Library. Lunch will be available but the big draw . . .
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