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AWARDS
)2023( George Finney: EdScoop 50 Awards: University Technology Leader of the Year ݑ
Mike Gebreselassie: Faculty Senate 2023 Outstanding Staff Award ݑ
Erich Heise: Pascal Covici, Jr., Prize for Outstanding Essay in American Studies ݑ
2023 Michael Hites: ORBIE Awards CIO of the Year Finalist ݑ
Lauren Nelson: Presidential Staff Recognition Award for Innovation ݑ
Faye Walter: Faculty Senate 2023 Outstanding Staff Award ݑ
PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
৬ Yaw Bonsu, Presented PeopleSoft Rules Engine automation at the Alliance 2023 Conference in Nashville, TN. (Title: Rockin and Rollin with the Rules Engine) presented February 28th, 2023
৬ Jennifer Culver, Peralta Equity Conference “Name That Image”
৬ Jennifer Culver, Online Learning Consortium “Name That Image” and “What Does Substantive Mean, Really?”
৬ Jennifer Culver, Educause “Creating a Digital Learning Strategy”
৬ Tommy Doan, Internet2 BaseCAMP: Identity Registration 101 June 7, 2022
ê George Finney, Project Zero Trust, (Wiley and Sons 2022)
ê Eric Godat, Mechanical analogue for cities - https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220943
ê Michael Hites, Digital Transformation for Improved Faculty Research Support, Society for College and University Planning Annual Conference, 2022
ê David Liska, Liska, D., Wolfe, Z., Norris, A. VISTA: Visualizing the Spatial Transcriptome of the C. elegans Nervous System. Bioinformatics Advances. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbad127
ê Tue Vu, Makris, N., Moghimi, R., Godat, E., Vu, T. Mechanical Analogue for Cities. Royal Society Open Science, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220943
ACHIEVEMENTS & SERVICE
Jennifer Culver
৬ Commendation from OLC for being a mentor to new presenters
৬ Educause Working Group - Resource for Digital Learning Strategy Creation
৬ Educause Horizon Panelist - Whole Student
ê Collaborative to create DEI Annotations for Online Course Design
Michael Hites
ê Facilitated and co-authored a revised strategic plan for the Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN). https://www.tx-learn.org/resources/annual_reports/2022_LEARN_Annual_Report_web.pdf
Tue Vu
Conduct 3 NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute workshop during Spring break 2023 that cover: Fundamental ࢱ Deep Learning, Accelerate Data Science workflow with RAPIDS, Natural Language Processing with NEMO.
Conduct workshop introducing AI to SuperPOD ࢱ
OIT EmPlOyEE SPOTlIGhT
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