The desert around Earl Lewis’ vacation home in northeastern Utah — a yurt in Vernal, his wife’s hometown — teems with life. Nestled among slickrock and sagebrush, the yurt sits on a 375-acre family property near Moonshine Arch, about 30 miles west of the Colorado border.
Despite being delayed a month due to a winter storm, this year’s Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) organization’s team-building and morale events got off to a sweet start.
The UIT system administrator worked in a veterinary clinic for two years. The experience taught him “to get started without waiting for confidence to kick in” and inspired him to pivot into a health care-supporting role at the university.
Dave Huth has been an insider to 40 years of dramatic digital transformations at the University of Utah. The director for Product Management (CTO Office) & Enterprise Architecture recently sat down to discuss a particular watershed moment: the arrival of the first Macintosh computer in 1984.
The Utah Olympic Oval welcomed about 185 UIT staff members on December 11, 2023, for the annual UIT Holiday Luncheon, which featured winter activities, including a curling workshop taught by Olympic gold and silver medalist Derek Parra using stones from the 2002 Winter Olympics.
The DCIO Smells Like Team Spirit Committee’s last three events of the year not only sought to keep boosting morale and strengthening staff bonds in the Deputy Chief Information Officer organization but give back to the U of U community.
The competition, hosted by the Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) organization's Smells Like Team Spirit Committee, was part of an employee morale and teambuilding event that included lunch from Padelli’s Street Greek.
The Data Management & Analytics (DMA) team member said the COVID-19 pandemic, which kept him from seeing his colleagues every day, helped him figure out that it was time to retire.
May 3 was a pitch-perfect day for the annual UIT Spring Party, which included a build-your-own burger and hot dog buffet and a Salt Lake Bees ballgame.
More than 85 employees from the Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) organization and Software Platform Services (SPS) team met at Liberty Park for fun, morale-boosting activities.
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