During one of the most challenging periods in the University’s history, students, faculty and staff throughout the UW joined forces with UWIT to accomplish a wide breadth of work in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Going all-out: UWIT’s response to COVID-19
Launching a massive operation across three campuses to support remote learning and work for thousands of students, faculty and staff was no easy task, but the UW succeeded.
Check out UWIT’s COVID-19 response
Enhancing Teaching and Learning
From developing a new texting platform to reach students to streamlining the process for new majors and degrees, UWIT worked with partners to enhance teaching and learning and support student success.
Learn what happened in teaching and learning
Advancing Research
UWIT worked to advance world-class research by providing new training and resources for cloud computing and developing high-performance computing capacity for machine learning and artificial intelligence on site.
Find out how UWIT supported UW research
Modernizing Business Systems
With partners across the University, UWIT supported dozens of call centers going remote, developed web-based tools for decision makers and marked significant milestones in support of UW Finance Transformation.
Learn how UWIT improved UW business systems
Enhancing Collaboration
UWIT worked with partners to simplify and reduce the costs of responding to customer service requests, decrease enterprise risk by expanding two-factor authentication, provide cybersecurity training, and enhance Wi-FI.
Read about innovations stemming from UWIT partnerships