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What Is Purple and Why Is UW Offering It?
May 19, 2026
Learn about Purple and how it helps the UW adopt AI responsibly.
Get Familiar with Purple: Workshops Before Launch
May 19, 2026
Discover how Purple can assist your work at UW! Join the Purple Foundations workshop to explore AI tools, create personal agents, and enhance teaching, research, and collaboration.
Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day at UW
May 15, 2026
Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2026 on Thursday, May 21.
2026 UW Information Technology Customer & Partner Experience Survey
April 8, 2026
The UWIT Customer & Partner Experience Survey opens April 14 and runs through May 8, 2026. Students, faculty, researchers, and staff are invited to share feedback to help improve UW technology tools, services, and support across the University.
Meet Purple: UW’s Generative AI Tool That’s Changing the Game
February 10, 2026
Discover how Purple, UW’s generative AI tool, is transforming the way we work, learn, and innovate for students, faculty, staff and researchers at UW.
Discover the Power of Prompting with Purple: UW’s Gen AI Tool for Smarter Academic Planning
January 14, 2026
Discover how Purple, UW's Gen AI, can help the way you plan your academic journey!
Holiday Phishing Scams Are Rising – Spot and Report Them Fast
December 3, 2025
As the holiday season ramps up, so do online scams targeting universities. We’re seeing a notable increase in fraudulent emails, texts, and phone calls aimed at students, faculty, staff, and medical personnel. These attempts can be highly convincing and often mimic supervisors, campus departments, job recruiters, or trusted companies.
Workday Access Window Shortened for Former Employees
November 25, 2025
Payroll and UW-IT recently partnered on an important update that changes how long former employees can log into Workday to view their electronic tax documents and past pay slips.
Purple: UW’s Custom AI Tool Is Taking Shape
October 23, 2025
Purple, UW’s custom AI tool, is moving from concept to reality.
Windows 10 Support is Ending
August 28, 2025
Windows 10 support ends October 14. Find out what you need to do to stay connected to UW networks.
A powerful network links Washington classrooms to the stars
May 27, 2025
On a clear night in the Northwest, you can easily spot Orion’s belt or the Big Dipper peeking over the horizon — a seemingly unchanged sky that untold generations have observed for millennia. In reality, stars are born, die and explode into supernovae right before our eyes, practically all the time. We just can’t see…
New Register.UW app simplifies course registration for all students
April 21, 2025
A significantly enhanced registration tool is now streamlining how University of Washington students register for classes.
UW Tower Data Center improvements scheduled for Jan. 26
January 13, 2025
As part of ongoing improvements to computing infrastructure, UW-IT will remove older and unsupported hardware at the UW Tower Data Center — decommissioning existing routers and replacing them with modern dual edge routers.
UW and Workday collaborate to lead to global progress in digital accessibility
November 12, 2024
When the University of Washington selected Workday a decade ago to manage payroll and other critical tasks under Human Resources, accessibility experts determined the application needed more work to make it more functional for people with disabilities.
Stay secure online: Top tips for Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October 17, 2024
This message was sent to all University of Washington (UW) students, faculty and staff and UW Medicine employees. Husky Community, October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), a time to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and share resources to help keep you and our entire UW organization digitally secure. This year, the…
UW software notice: By Oct. 22, move/back up Adobe Creative Cloud files
October 3, 2024
This message is for all subscribers of Adobe Creative Cloud and all subscribers of Adobe Acrobat Pro who sign into these Adobe services using a UW NetID. What's happening and why On Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, we will be implementing a change that will delete all UW user files saved to Adobe Creative Cloud storage.…
A tech revolution leads to about $2 million in savings for UW
September 18, 2024
By Ignacio Lobos| UW-IT Strategic Communications I came into the office the other day and there was no wired telephone handset on my desk. And just like that, I had become an actor in a quiet technological revolution going on at the University of Washington and other work and study places across the globe: We…
What’s in a name? Everything!
September 10, 2024
UW introduces new app to support proper name pronunciation With the Namecoach App available in Canvas, you can record your name without worrying about stage fright. Text by Ignacio Lobos | UW-IT Strategic Communications I was at a pizza joint recently and the cashier asked for my name so they could yell it out when…
New UW-IT computing expert will help shape UW’s AI future
August 26, 2024
By Ignacio Lobos | UW-IT Strategic Communications When Jared Reimer joined the computer science program at UW nearly 30 years ago, the 17-year-old was more likely to find mentions of artificial intelligence (AI) in science fiction rather than the classroom. Today, AI is on the cusp of becoming the most transformative technology of the 21st…
What is going on with your heart?
July 22, 2024
Video by Sam Han | Text by Ignacio Lobos | UW-IT Communications & Engagement In one of your commercial flights over the Cascade Mountains, between snacks, bathroom breaks and terrible romantic comedies, did you ever stop to think about the massive engineering feat that kept the engines running? Have you ever considered your own engine…