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Ahmed Issawi, Product Services Manager within Application Services, was named the 2021 MSU IT Virtual Champion Award recipient during the June 9 presentation of the Excellence in IT Awards. MSU IT leadership presented six Excellence in IT Awards, recognizing the extraordinary efforts of its staff to advance student, faculty, and staff success. Read Full Article →

Mike Nauta, IT Security Analyst for MSU IT Information Security, was named the 2021 MSU IT Outstanding Service Award recipient during the June 9 presentation of the Excellence in IT Awards. MSU IT leadership presented six Excellence in IT Awards, recognizing the extraordinary efforts of its staff to advance student, faculty, and staff success. Read Full Article →

Jenn Phillips, Service Desk Team Lead with ANR Tech Services, was named 2021 MSU IT Most Valuable Teammate Award recipient during the June 9 presentation of the Excellence in IT Awards. MSU IT leadership presented six Excellence in IT Awards on June 9, recognizing the extraordinary efforts of its staff to advance student, faculty, and staff success. Read Full Article →

MSU IT leadership celebrated June 9, recognizing the extraordinary efforts of its staff to advance student, faculty, and staff success through the presentation of the inaugural Excellence in IT Awards. Awards were presented to MSU IT staff in the areas of student and staff success, as well as in the categories of Innovation, Virtual Champion, Outstanding Service, and Most Valuable Teammate. Read Full Article →

They’re the ones you call when you don’t know who to call. ContactMSU is MSU’s search engine, taking queries, finding answers, and providing solutions to problems.  

One year ago, questions came from all corners of campus following President Stanley’s announcement last March that classes were going fully online and university operations remote.  Read Full Article →

MSU staff, faculty, and students may be familiar with the MS Cortana “daily briefings” and regular MS MyAnalytics updates that are sent to their MSU email inbox.

Cortana and MyAnalytics are being deactivated at an administrative level on Saturday, January 30, and MSU staff and faculty will be set to automatically opt out of these services. Read Full Article →

Due to the upcoming winter break and the lower level of activity on campus during that time, both the IT Service Desk and the MSU Tech Store will be limiting hours of operation. 

• Tuesday, Dec. 22 – Friday, Jan. 1
  • Monday – Sunday
    • 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. 

While COVID-19 has temporarily altered the way we operate, it has highlighted MSU IT’s agility and creativity in meeting our campus partners’ service needs. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Academic Technology, where teams have had to pivot time and again to address an ever-changing landscape and do so while being mindful of MSU IT’s safety procedures and protocols.  Read Full Article →

The Academic Technology team at MSU IT has put together some webinars for faculty during October, November, and December this semester intended to help educators support their students and enrich their remote learning environments. 

October’s webinars will focus on Zoom training. This two-part workshop series will cover everything you need to know to successfully set up and use Zoom meetings following pedagogical best practices and MSU security and privacy policies.  Read Full Article →

From addressing climate change to developing drug treatments, data is key to finding solutions to many global problems. Thanks to a National Science Foundation grant of nearly half a million dollars, MSU researchers will soon be able to easily share huge volumes of data with peers at institutions around the world, through the creation of a Science DMZ. Read Full Article →