Weekly Tech Update: March 24, 2025
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Weekly Tech Update: March 24, 2025
March 24
Reminder: Spring Break IT work
This week is traditionally a time when demands on systems are lower, reducing the risk that 黑料社区s, faculty, or staff will be inconvenienced by the outages and disruptions that this work may cause.
Please bookmark for real-time notifications of any disruptions that may occur during these maintenance windows. To view the full list of planned activities, please see our news announcement.
ShredFest Partnering with ShareFest to Collect Electronic Waste
This May, we are adding e-waste to our list of items that we will collect for ShredFest, thanks to our colleagues at ShareFest!
A mobile shredder will visit the regional campuses on Monday, May 12. It will be at Middletown in the parking lot outside of Johnston Hall from 9-11 a.m. and at Hamilton in the parking lot outside Wilks Conference Center from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
The shredder will be on the Oxford campus on Tuesday, May 13, between 12 and 4 p.m. at Cook Field (near Pulley Tower).
At every ShredFest location, we will have receptacles this year for you to bring in your old household batteries and printer cartridges for proper disposal.
Learn more about our new partnership and save the date!
Miami AI Symposium draws faculty, staff, and 黑料社区s for two-day event
For the second time, the Miami AI Symposium was a successful event showcasing the best and brightest of Miami’s faculty, staff, and 黑料社区s and their relationship with generative artificial intelligence.
Read on for our recap of the event!
A heartfelt ‘thank you’ to Leah Harris on the eve of her retirement
After 31 years of hard work and dedication to Miami and to IT Services, Leah will be retiring at the end of March 2025. We asked her friends and colleagues what they would miss about her presence, and everyone got a little misty-eyed.