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Monthly Newsletter | April 2020
Dear WIT@UCSF members,
While this pandemic has serious consequences for many people, we hope you are able to find levity and hope in your families and communities. For us on the leadership team, our own roles have shifted to respond to COVID-19, but we still wanted to provide you with resources and a sense of connection. On Friday, April 3rd, we hosted a new type of learning event called Tech Cafe, with a short, casual format, focused on the technology tools we can leverage while working remotely. We have received a strong positive response and will host another one this Friday, April 17th. Normally, we would have some photos from the event to share; this time we are sharing a screen shot of our session! Thanks to everyone who joined. Can't wait to see you at the next one!
^Tech Cafe via Zoom on April 3, 2020
Power on!
WIT@UCSF Leadership Team
Ana Buenaventura, Kat Li, Sarah Ngo, Suria Sadat, & Alyssa Tecklenburg
Member Spotlight
This month, we get to know Jenny Tai, Makers Lab Engineer and Cricut extraordinaire.
Welcome New Members
Welcome new members who have joined since the last newsletter. If you have a question about a product, or how to get something done, it's likely that there's someone in our group who can help! We're always open to ideas and feedback on how we can better strengthen our network, so if you have an idea, shoot us an email.
Upcoming Events
WIT@UCSF Tech Cafe
Stop by for a quick shot of tips and tricks for shrinking the virtual distance. This session is about design tool Canva and collaboration tool Mural.
Friday, April 17, 11-11:30am
Zoom Meeting ID 384 341 378 | Pwd 005874
Upcoming UCSF Events
Intro to SQL (waitlist)
Friday, April 24, 9-11am
Zoom
Other UC Events
UC Tech 2020 postponed to 2021
UC Tech has been postponed to August 7-9, 2021 due to COVID-19.
Other Tech Events
Go Global Covid-19 Relief Hackathon
We’re crowdsourcing intelligence to rapidly develop and deploy technology for the most relevant pain points of the COVID-19 Pandemic. We see coordinated collaboration as the key to effectively accelerating solutions. We see our role in this event as a conduit to connecting skills & talent with users & need-knowers, while supporting them with the resources they need to prototype, test, and implement. In other words: knowledge sharing, resource sharing, open source, for the greater good.
NLP Challenge
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the White House and a coalition of leading research groups have prepared the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). We are issuing a call to action to the world's artificial intelligence experts to develop text and data mining tools that can help the medical community develop answers to high priority scientific questions.
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Job Opportunities
Last week, Chancellor Hawgood announced a hiring freeze on all open and new positions across the campus and UCSF Health effective April 7, 2020 through June 30, 2021. We have decided to suspend this section and would like to divert your attention to free learning opportunities for building up new tech skills.
Free Online Courses and Certificates
With all this sheltering in place, why not brush up on some skills or learn some new ones? There is a wealth of classes offered by the UC and UCSF online, as well as free courses from other learning platforms. Here are some ideas below:
Skillsoft from UCSF Learning and Organization
UCSF L&OD offers a variety of Skillsoft courses and even certifications!
Remote Working: Setting Yourself and Your Teams Up for Success
LinkedIn with Lynda.com is offering 16 free courses for working from home.
Learn Something New at edX
Gain new skills, advance your career, or learn something just for fun. EdX is a nonprofit offering 1900+ courses from the world's best institutions including Harvard, MIT, Microsoft, and more.
Free Harvard Online Courses
Browse the latest free online courses from Harvard University, including CS50's Introduction to Game Development and CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript.
Class Central's MOOCDReport
For a limited time, Coursera offers free certificates for 85 courses. Click on the button below to discover other courses recommended by Class Central.
Power On!
