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Laughter and the occasional ringing cellphone echoed through the Commander’s House in Fort Douglas on November 21, 2019 as UIT colleagues bid a fond farewell to data analyst Camille Wintch, who retired from University Support Services.

UIT staff recognized for their excellent work.

The Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House was the fittingly festive location for this year’s UIT Employee Holiday Luncheon and Prize Drawing, held on Thursday, December 5, 2019.

The Enterprise Web Advisory Council (EWAC) met on December 12. No other IT governance committees met in December. The Teaching and Learning Portfolio (TLP) will meet on January 16, the Strategic Information Technology Committee (SITC) will next meet on January 21, and the IT Architecture and New Technology Committee (ANTC) will meet on January 27.

Four UIT staff members took home coveted gift baskets during an opportunity drawing on December 12, 2019, but the real beneficiaries were the people served by the Utah Food Bank, which received more than $10,000 from ticket proceeds.

Stacy Vincent, a data security analyst in Governance, Risk & Compliance, reflects on being part of the Women in Networking at SC (WINS) program, and helping to design, build, run, and dismantle a special network just for this year's Supercomputing conference (SC19).

Anita Orendt, assistant director for Research Consulting and Faculty Engagement in the Center for High Performance Computing, looks back on SC19 and participating with Murray City School District in the first SCinet Technology Challenge.

Barb Iannucci, associate director of Content Management & Usability, gives some highlights from the Lunch & Updates event the team held on November 15, 2019 for OU Campus editors.

Vice President for Student Affairs Lori McDonald awarded UIT’s Business Intelligence team with the Campus Partner Award at the Student Affairs winter luncheon on December 10, 2019.

Following a lunch catered by Dickey’s Barbecue Pit and Blue Lemon, USS staff marked the holiday with a bath bomb workshop, bingo, video games, cornhole, pumpkin painting, a Nerf gun skills contest, and a screening of the perennial Halloween favorite, "Beetlejuice."