ITS will be implementing the following rates on July 1, 2018. You can review the most popular service rates in our FY19 Rates brochure, or get a full list of rates here. 

Join us for a great new schedule of demonstrations for faculty, staff, and students. Each week, our experts will showcase various software and tools, and answer your questions on how these resources can help you in your work at WCM.

Upcoming schedule and topics

During the month of April, we’ll be hosting these topics. Download our flyer to keep at your desk:  

Tuesday, April 3

Zoom: Learn more about our free tool to host large-scale online video conferences.

Fun Fact: The Library is doing its part by saving WCM 1,568kWh/year on electricity. We revamped the lighting in the library's front room to an automated system since last year.

The Weill Cornell Medicine Unpower Hour is the official kick-off of our year-long energy savings plan. For the tenth year in a row, Weill Cornell faculty, students, and staff will power down for one hour on Thursday, March 22, from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Throughout the month of March, Tech Tuesday will feature various topics on using Microsoft Excel. Whether you’re a complete beginner, a casual user who wants to know a few tricks, or someone who’s in Excel every day, you can take away some handy tips from this special series.  

Our 5th Annual SMARTFest on February 1 welcomed approximately 1,150 attendees, making it our largest and most successful SMARTFest since its inception. The event, held in the Samuel J. Wood Library, promotes emerging tech and helpful services for WCM faculty, staff, and students.

Aside from the usual trade-show style format in which attendees could walk up to the experts and ask about services, we had several new features this year:

You know your passwords should look like this: %b96TO5JkW#x5!, but how are you going to remember that? WCM ITS wants to make it easier for you to create strong passwords and keep them safe. We teamed up with LastPass, a top-rated password manager, to offer you a complementary account that you can keep, even if you leave WCM.

The Samuel J. Wood Library recently launched OneSearch, a new catalog to enhance your search experience by expanding your access to our electronic content. OneSearch provides an array of helpful features, such as:          

ITS offers a special Research Lab website service for researchers looking for a polished, professional online presence.

Many faculty research labs build websites to showcase their work, frequently using third party platforms like Wix or Squarespace. This led to sites that were not properly branded, didn’t follow institutional best practices, and that didn’t integrate well with institutional systems.

Lenovo has issued a recall notice for ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th Gen Laptops manufactured between December 2016 and October 2017. Lenovo has determined that a limited number of such laptops may have an unfastened screw that could damage the laptop’s battery causing overheating, potentially posing a fire hazard.

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