Articles from April 2021

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IT group efforts made remote working easier for research faculty and administrators

Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Not too long ago, when someone in the Division of Sponsored Programs (DSP)—which helps researchers with funding and grant compliance—needed to find information about a project they’d have to walk over to a Lektriever, a kind of Ferris wheel for organizing file folders. If the folder was missing, they’d email a message to everyone in the office to locate the file. This was complicated by the fact...