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How the Heck Do You Spring Clean Your Tech?

Spring is the perfect time to refresh, renew, and revive your hardware and digital environments for a fresh start. We compiled a quick guide to help you spring clean your tech, ensuring optimal device performance and safer, clutter-free physical and digital storage spaces.

Student Perspective: Tools and Services to Lighten Your Daily Workload

Northwestern students spend countless hours each week behind laptops, conquering the challenges of daily classwork, extracurricular responsibilities, and professional tasks. As they operate within today’s age of digital efficiency, we wanted to talk to students to see what online tools and services help them minimize their workloads.

Northwestern IT Brings Generative AI “Clients” to Law School Classroom

The rapid adoption of generative AI in higher education has brought its challenges for professors, but it also can bring about solutions and augment classroom learning. Entrepreneurship law students at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law got first-hand experience with this when the Law School teamed up with Northwestern IT to bring a custom generative AI chat simulation tool to the classroom to support client role playing and enhance student experiences.

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How to Escape from the Latest Phishing Lures

It can be hard to keep up with all the ways scammers seek to obtain personal and sensitive information from unsuspecting victims. Phishing attempts are significantly higher around holidays and certain times of the year, like tax season. Having the tools to spot a scam can protect you from giving away financial and other personally identifiable information. Learn about some of the more current phishing trends.

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Guidance on the Use of Generative AI at Northwestern

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers the potential for new capabilities in research, education, and productivity. Understand what to look for when adopting these tools to ensure the intended use is met and University data is protected.

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Travel Safety Tips

Even if you leave your laptop computer at home, you’ll probably stay connected when you’re traveling this summer – you can check your phone on the beach or on a mountaintop. Remain cyber safe following simple practices to keep your information protected from cybercriminal meddling.

Events

Apr
28
2025

Introduction to Canvas for Instructors

10:30 AM
For instructors new to Northwestern or new to using Canvas full-time, this interactive workshop provides an overview of ...
Apr
28
2025

Research Computing and Data Drop-in Support

3:00 PM Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library), 2233 Tech Drive
Research Computing and Data Services Consultations Drop-in Support: We are excited to be holding in-person consultation ...
Apr
30
2025

GCC: Peak Calling with MACS2 (Chicago)

11:00 AM Wieboldt Hall North Entrance, 339 E Chicago Ave
Peak calling is a computational method used to identify areas in the genome that have been enriched with aligned reads i...