OneIT in the News

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has jointly awarded UC San Diego, San Diego State University and CSU San Bernardino a five-year, $6.7 million grant to support cyberinfrastructure (CI) training and resources.

The SDSU Safe app, using latest mobile and GPS technologies, ensures on/off-campus safety, upgrades SDSU Alert with instant notifications, and provides quick access to university safety tools.

Six individuals and a team of five were recognized with Presidential Staff Excellence Awards as part of an annual honor for outstanding contributions and efforts in support of the university, the community and fellow employees. In addition, the second annual Staff Lifetime Achievement Award was bestowed upon James Frazee, deputy chief information officer and senior associate vice president in the Information Technology Division.

In the summer of 2022, the Research & Cyberinfrastructure group, College IT, and Dr. Faramarz Valafar engaged with the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC) team to perform an Application Deep Dive. The deep dive focused on Dr. Valafar’s research requirements around data transfer, compute, and storage.

The Information Technology Division has launched Virtual Immersive Teaching and Learning (VITaL) as a formal research center dedicated to expanding the use of emergent virtual technologies in the classroom.

EDUCAUSE spotlighted SDSU’s Flexible Course Design Summer Institute (Flex-CDI) as an exemplar for technology use in its national 2020 Student Technology Report. Flex-CDI helped 894 faculty members enhance their skills and knowledge of teaching in the online environment.

Helina Hoyt, nursing program coordinator at SDSU Imperial Valley, and Sean Hauze, associate director for Instructional Technology Services (ITS), were honored by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for the paper “Equitable Nursing Education Simulation through Holographic Video: Measuring Student Knowledge, Skill, and Motivation to Learn.”

San Diego State University’s Virtual Immersive Teaching and Learning (VITaL) team received the Gold Award in the category of “Technology Supporting Innovation in Teaching and Research” at the Cal State Tech Conference earlier this month in Sacramento.

San Diego State University’s academic technology chief was among 30 “transformers and trailblazers” recognized this year by the Center for Digital Education. James Frazee, director of Instructional Technology Services (ITS), received the award for “improving the learning environment through effective implementation of technology rich solutions…that have impact on student outcomes.”