Chenoa Lawrence (pronounced shah-NO-ah) is the new student technology support coordinator for the Student Digital Life team. She spent the last year working for an artificial intelligence company called LivePerson as a service desk specialist II. Chenoa has also worked for seven years as an information systems administrator for Atlanta Technical College and three years […]
A record crowd tuned in to the first-ever virtual IT Briefing this week. The longtime Emory IT project update meeting had 177 attendees, shattering the old mark of 115 set when CIO Rich Mendola addressed the Briefing in 2013. The IT Briefing returned after taking a month hiatus while LITS transitioned into a mobile workforce […]
When Emory announced its move to remote learning for the rest of the semester, minimizing the financial impact on students was a challenge. In response, Campus Life set up a hardship fund at success.emory.edu, later renamed the EmoryTogether Fund, to assist with the many sudden needs of students, such as help with packing and storing their belongings […]
I attended our monthly DEI Committee meeting January 15 that had Emory’s chief diversity officer, Dr. Carol Henderson, as the guest speaker. Dr. Henderson’s talk was one of review, having completed her first semester here at Emory. She spoke about meetings with student groups, executive leadership, campus life and human resources. She talked of climate […]
Ben Kasavan is a new technical support specialist in Student Digital Life. He was hired after serving as a student employee technology specialist in the TechLab. Ben previously spent time as an explainer in the New York Hall of Science. A native of Queens in New York City, Ben earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from Emory. […]
If you walked into the Computing Center at Cox Hall on April 25, you might have thought you were walking into a thrift store. Hundreds of clothing items were spread across tables in the Gallery and Classroom A for a free clothing swap. The swap was led by the Emory Climate Analysis Solutions Team (ECAST) […]
On April 8, the LITS Student Digital Life team, in partnership with the Library Service Desk, added a new service to the Woodruff Library in the form of a Knowledge Imaging Center (KIC) Bookeye book scanner. It sits across from the Library Service Desk, in place of one of the EaglePrint multi-function printers (MFP’s). The […]