Initiatives

IU’s vision for excellence in research, teaching, outreach, and lifelong learning is a driving force behind our commitment to innovation. At UITS, we recognize that technology is constantly evolving and advancing, and it’s critical for us to keep pace, analyzing and adopting new resources and tools that will benefit all of our constituents.

UITS Research Technologies is creating opportunities for transformative research and creativity and helping to shape the cyberinfrastructure workforce of the future through its Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Fellows programs. These unique opportunities give undergraduate and graduate students the skills, knowledge, and experience to effectively use IU’s advanced CI resources, such as Big Red 200 and Jetstream2, for research projects and teach faculty to integrate these resources into their curriculum.

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As the needs of IU students evolve, UITS is always working with IU faculty and staff to facilitate new approaches to teaching and learning.

The Mosaic Initiative at IU supports innovative classroom design, research, and active learning in all IU classrooms. Through interactive tours, faculty workshops, classroom observations and in-classroom consultations, the program encourages engagement and conversation about how learning spaces and technology impact teaching.

The rising cost of textbooks drove IU and UITS to develop a digital content solution that offered more affordable, accessible learning materials. Through direct partnerships with a growing number of publishers, IU eTexts has become a cost-effective alternative to traditional print textbooks.

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UITS is implementing the full Microsoft 365 suite of productivity applications for IU faculty, staff, and students, empowering people at each IU campus to connect and collaborate. With more than 20 innovative applications for creating, storing, and sharing documents, building presentations, managing projects, and meeting, Microsoft 365 will allow you to work anywhere at any time.

Find out more about the Microsoft 365 initiative

All IU constituents with email have a single inbox, username@iu.edu, and campus-specific email addresses forward to it. Unifying email to a single domain simply means that you will have one address, username@iu.edu, to send and receive email.

Learn more about the One Mail project