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A local celebrity graced the 15th annual ITS-UIT golf tournament held September 12. To the amusement and occasional chagrin of players, a golf ball-stealing red fox named “Roxy” followed teams around the pine and willow tree-framed fairways of the course.

Employees in UIT's Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) organization recently took part in three team-building and morale events: a Scavenger Hunt, Block Walk Challenge, and Treats & Trivia.

Rose Park/West Side Baseball recently honored Heather Birky Winters, a telecom specialist for UIT Voice Systems and Business Administration, with a crystal award and flowers for a decade of service to the league.

If the past two years are any indication, UIT is a good luck charm for the Salt Lake Bees and the Utah weather gods. Temperatures warmed into the 70s during the Bees’ victorious matinee game — and annual UIT Spring Party — on May 23 at Smith’s Ballpark.

The desert around Earl Lewis’ vacation home in northeastern Utah — a yurt in Vernal, his wife’s hometown — teems with life. Nestled among slickrock and sagebrush, the yurt sits on a 375-acre family property near Moonshine Arch, about 30 miles west of the Colorado border.

Despite being delayed a month due to a winter storm, this year’s Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) organization’s team-building and morale events got off to a sweet start.

The UIT system administrator worked in a veterinary clinic for two years. The experience taught him “to get started without waiting for confidence to kick in” and inspired him to pivot into a health care-supporting role at the university.

Dave Huth has been an insider to 40 years of dramatic digital transformations at the University of Utah. The director for Product Management (CTO Office) & Enterprise Architecture recently sat down to discuss a particular watershed moment: the arrival of the first Macintosh computer in 1984.

The Utah Olympic Oval welcomed about 185 UIT staff members on December 11, 2023, for the annual UIT Holiday Luncheon, which featured winter activities, including a curling workshop taught by Olympic gold and silver medalist Derek Parra using stones from the 2002 Winter Olympics.

The DCIO Smells Like Team Spirit Committee’s last three events of the year not only sought to keep boosting morale and strengthening staff bonds in the Deputy Chief Information Officer organization but give back to the U of U community.