Information Technologies & Services

Feb. 11: AI Developer Excellence Workshop

February 4, 2025

Join DevOps Engineer Michael Sprague on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 for an AI-focused workshop for web developers. During the workshop Michael will evaluate three different AI tools designed for building web apps and interfaces, and discuss how they can shorten your time from concept to prototype. Hear about the strengths and shortcomings of v0, Bolt, and Replit Agent. There will be time for questions at the end.

 

Meeting details

Time: 2-3pm ET

AI Innovation Lab

Feb. 4: Organize tasks with Microsoft Lists

January 31, 2025

Tech Tuesday 

Organize tasks with Microsoft Lists

Tuesday, Feb. 4

12 noon – 12:45 p.m. 

  

Take your tracking out of Excel spreadsheets, sticky notes, and calendar notifications, and pop it into easy-to-use Microsoft Lists. With Lists, you can build and share lists to track issues, tasks, processes, and other items to streamline your work. In this session, we’ll also demonstrate how to: 

 

Microsoft Lists

Grow your career with new LinkedIn Learning feature

January 29, 2025

LinkedIn Learning introduced My Career Journey, a new feature that allows you to set career goals for yourself and find recommended courses related to them. 

 

How My Career Journey works

Log into your LinkedIn Learning account with your WCM email and password, and then look for My Career Journey in the left navigation menu: 

Ladder going up

Issue with macOS Sequoia 15.3 update

January 28, 2025

Apple recently released an update for macOS Sequoia 15.3, and ITS is receiving reports that the update does not fully install if a user has any peripheral devices connected to their Mac when they attempt the update. (e.g. keyboard, mouse, microphone, webcam, monitor, external drive etc.)  

What do you need to do? 

  1. Before you begin the macOS Sequoia 15.3 update, unplug all peripherals.
  2. Install the update.
  3. Log in.
  4. Reconnect your perpherials. 

  

mac OS Sequoia update

Jan. 30: Changes to High-Risk Data Attestation

January 27, 2025

On Thursday, Jan. 30, from 6 p.m. – 7 p.m., ITS will be implementing changes to the annual High-Risk Data Attestation that is required to be completed by WCM faculty, staff, and students. All WCM employees must complete the attestation annually (upon their anniversary date) at attest.weill.cornell.edu.

 

 

A padlock icon hovers over a hospital bed, signifying data privacy for patients.

Jan. 28: Learn LabArchives

January 24, 2025

Tech Tuesday 

LabArchives Electronic Lab Notebook

Tuesday, Jan. 28

12 noon – 12:45 p.m. 

 

 

Come learn about LabArchives, our secure, cloud-based electronic lab notebook (ELN) designed for research. This ELN system enables researchers to capture, manage, store, and share information and data. Additionally, LabArchives helps you comply with NIH and WCM retention policies. 

 

Researcher conducting a lab experiment

Coming soon: Changes to your Microsoft O365 account

January 13, 2025

Microsoft recently announced changes to the way your O365 web portal page looks and functions. Beginning as early as this week, you may see the following updates the next time you log into o365.weill.cornell.edu or portal.office.com. 

    

Changes to your account

 

  • Your URL will be redirected to m365.cloud.microsoft. You can use this in the future or bookmark it, if needed.

New O365 account logo

1/14: Advanced Microsoft Copilot

January 8, 2025

Tech Tuesday 

Advanced Microsoft Copilot

Tuesday, Jan. 14

12 noon – 12:45 p.m. 

  

Last year, ITS introduced Microsoft Copilot and provided an overview of how to use our new AI companion. In this session, we’ll focus more on prompt creation and specific use cases happening at WCM that may inspire your own projects. We also encourage you to bring your own questions and use cases so we can collaborate in the second half of the session. 

Microsoft Copilot prompt example

2024 ITS Annual Report

January 8, 2025

ITS has just released its  FY24 Annual Report,  available on the ITS website.  In the full  report, you will find ITS' progress from the past fiscal year, our goals for the current fiscal year, and key statistics on our operations.  

FY2024 Annual Report cover featuring Instructional Technologies Manager Rob Dietz taking images of a brain from the Anatomy lab to compile a 3D image.

Microsoft releases updates in Copilot

January 8, 2025

Microsoft recently released changes in the Copilot web application that will affect how you use the service. Here’s what you’ll see the next time you log in:  

     

Microsoft Copilot icon