Research IT participates in #ShutDownAcadamia

Submitted by Cindy Chen on June 10, 2020

On Wednesday, June 10, Research IT is recognizing #ShutDownAcadamia #shutdownSTEM #Strike4BlackLives.

We will not be holding our regular office hours and staff are out of the office to commit the day to education, action, and healing around Black Lives Matter efforts.

UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup Now Virtual

Submitted by annichai on April 23, 2020

UC Berkeley research labs have been at the forefront of the design and planning for much of today's cloud computing industry. There are many more examples across campus of teams using, running, and facilitating access to cloud based systems including those that support the teaching of data science using platforms like Jupyterhub (also developed at UC Berkeley).

Research IT and Partners Host Women in Data Science Berkeley Conference

Submitted by Cindy Chen on April 5, 2020

The Women in Data Science (WiDS) Berkeley Conference took place on March 2, 2020, and was sponsored by Research IT, the Berkeley iSchool, CITRIS & the Banatao Institute, and the Division of Data Science, Computing, and Society. WiDS Berkeley is a satellite event associated with the Women in Data Science conference at Stanford. This was the third year that UC Berkeley hosted a WiDS event and it featured a mixture of live Berkeley events - including a keynote, tech talks, a panel, lunch, and reception - and streaming content from the Stanford conference.

Research IT Consultations Are Moving Online During Campus Response To Coronavirus

Submitted by Cindy Chen on March 18, 2020

Effective March 11, 2020: In response to the actions that campus is taking to help limit coronavirus (COVID-19) risk, we in Research IT are moving most of our consultations online. This includes Research Data Management consultations as well as those for our Berkeley Research Computing services (Savio, AEoD, and Cloud).

Working with Sensitive and Protected Data Workshop Summary

Submitted by Cindy Chen on March 10, 2020

The "Working with sensitive and Protected Data Workshop" hosted by Research IT took place on December 5, 2019, at the Academic Innovation Studio.

Data Peer Consulting Services

Submitted by Cindy Chen on February 10, 2020

Students in our data consulting network help make data science accessible across the broader campus community.

Patrick Schmitz to retire: Research IT Associate Director and BRC Program Manager

Submitted by Steve Masover on June 12, 2019

Research IT’s Associate Director and BRC Program Manager Patrick Schmitz will retire from his role at UC Berkeley after twelve years of visionary and foundational contribution to supporting computationally- and data-intensive research on the campus he first joined as an undergraduate in 1978.

Announcing Steve Masover's pending retirement

Submitted by Patrick Schmitz on May 21, 2019

It is with deeply mixed emotions that we are sharing the news that Steve Masover will retire from UC Berkeley at the end of June. Steve has been such an important part of the Research IT team, and many others as well in his tenure at Berkeley, and we’ll miss him.

Announcing Amy Neeser's new role with Research IT

Submitted by Patrick Schmitz on May 15, 2019

Research IT is pleased to announce that Amy Neeser will step into a new role as the group’s Consulting and Outreach Lead. Amy will be coordinating our consulting efforts across the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) and Research Data Management (RDM) programs, and will also facilitate and grow our community, partnership, and outreach programs.

Announcing support for P2/P3 sensitive data in BRC

Submitted by Patrick Schmitz on May 13, 2019

Researchers working with moderately sensitive data can now perform their analyses using their Faculty Computing Allowance (FCA) or their Condo computing resources in UC Berkeley's high performance computing cluster, Savio.

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