Staff Activities

Transitions

New Employee:

Diane Sleiman, Lab Monitor, ACS General Access Lab, ACS (part-time).

No longer working in the Computing and Information Technology Center:

Axton Grams - Computer Support Specialist in Academic Computing Services, Call Tracking Administration (Remedy).

Nevin Ellis, Systems Programmer/Analyst.

Eanen Cohn, Helpdesk Microcomputer Consultants (part-time).

Changes:

Mike Williams, who had been in Desktop OS Support, Network Computing Services, has moved, along with the Antivirus support function he performs, to the CITC Information Security Team.

Awards, Recognition, Publications

The Human Resources Newsletter (April, 2004) recognized these Computing Center employees as Soaring Eagles: They will receive awards at the President's Staff Sack lunch on May 6.

Tracy Hansen, EIS Computer Support, was recognized for doing her job so well.

Rory Rivoire, Communications System Manager, received a Soaring Eagle for helping to save the Building Systems Group a large amount of time and providing customer service with the laptop computers.

Proceedings from the EDUCAUSE 2004 Southwest Regional Conference are now available online. Included in the proceedings are presentations by Dr. Maurice Leatherbury, Executive Director of Information Technology and Academic Computing, Dr. Philip Baczewski, Associate Director of Academic Computing, and Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, ACS Student Computing Services Manager. Dr. Leatherbury's presentation, Cost-Effective Monitoring of Classroom Technology at UNT, can be found here. Checkin 4.0: A Computer Lab and Facilities Management System at the University of North Texas, Dr. Baczewski's and Dr. Hinkle-Turner's presentation, can be found here.

Samantha Moss, CITC Administrative Assistant, and her band jetscreamer have been in the news lately. The NT Daily did an article on them, "Denton act soars high" that appeared in the April 7 edition. Austinchronicle.com said "Denton’s Jetscreamer simply squeals for an Austin following." You can visit their Website here.

Sandy Burke, Manager, Support Services Help Desk, made the front page of the March 12 issue of Inhouse. She was "one of more than 275 volunteers who took part in the Great UNT Campus Beautification and Cleanup Day last year." Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, ACS Student Computing Services Manager, was also featured in that issue. She was profiled in the Portrait Gallery section in an article entitled "Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner: Making music the electronic way — by computer."