Texas A&M monitors cybersecurity threats 24 hours a day. There are many ways an unauthorized person might be able to enter your access-controlled facility. One way is to check for a door that is propped open or a window that is not latched properly, especially when you are not watching. Another technique is [...]
A lot of work goes into planning a move to a new home. As students prepare to move into on-campus residence halls, it takes a team to make it happen well. A year ago, the Department of Residence Life began planning a big move—not the living quarters for students, rather the location of an online [...]
Mark Matusek and his son Kyle discover a brick remembering his uncle Marvin Matusek ’51. For 30 years the plaza outside the Sanders Corps of Cadet Center has been systematically paved brick by inscribed brick. Each brick has a story, and each makes other stories possible. But finding a particular brick in the [...]
The Disability Resources staff administered 2,233 final exams in May 2022 using AIM software. Federal data indicates only 34% of students with disabilities finish a four-year degree within eight years, a rate far lower than their peers. Disability Resources (DR) staff work relentlessly to defy those odds and to enable equity at Texas [...]
Texas A&M offers excellent educational opportunities to its students. As an example, the undergraduate program in Texas A&M’s Department of Management is ranked #7 nationally by U.S. News & World Report in 2022. However, the opportunities to develop management skills go far beyond the classroom. Often Student Affairs IT gets to be a part of [...]
Japanese poet Ryunosuke Satoro wrote, "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” That’s true when 13,200 students come together in selfless service. It’s also true when a variety of IT staff use their skills to serve a common purpose. When The Big Event started forty years ago, the logistics were pretty easy to [...]
Texas A&M University blends creative promotion with technology to increase undergraduate voter turnout by 47%. The right to vote is foundational for a representative government. That representation for Texas A&M University students was threatened by a declining number of students who exercised that right. The percentage of undergraduate students voting in student body elections dropped by [...]
Akarsh Kosanam (center) and Manoj Vuppuluri (right) well into a 24-hour hackathon. Wanted: Wizard skills. Water bottles. Working Internet. Worthy cause. Last month three of the graduate assistant (GA) software developers in Technology Services - Student Affairs participated in TAMUhack 2022, a 24-hour challenge to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems. The student-run [...]
With the cameras rolling during production of the 1942 classic movie Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart improvised when he delivered his iconic line to Ingrid Bergman, “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Eighty years later there are many more cameras rolling. Much of what they capture is also improvised. A video security system with more than 900 cameras [...]
DoIT’s “Always On” virtual private network simplifies remote work for efficiency and peace of mind. Ever feel the quality of food from a restaurant is not the same when you get it to go as when you dine in? In the same way, when you need to work away from the office, you would like [...]