"Technology is a key driver of Stony Brook’s teaching, learning and research mission and an enabler of success on our campus. Found here in our first annual report are some of the strides we made in implementing and meeting a number of strategic goals. I am proud of the work accomplished by our staff to push the agenda forward."
— Cole W. Camplese Vice President for Information Technology & CIO @colecamplese • CIO Blog
See how the Division of Information Technology is propelling the University.
On Febraury 12, 2015, President Stanley named Vice President for Information Technology & CIO Cole Camplese temporary leader of Project 50 Forward/Operational Excellence after the departure of Barbara Chernow, Senior Vice President for Administration.
Stony Brook University's new Talent Management System has helped the campus community hire more than 200 esteemed faculty and staff who help make this campus community a vibrant place to grow and learn.
The new talent management system has helped manage 1,100 job openings, and 27,474 new applicants.
Words From Steve Riccobono, Assistant Director, Human Resources
Stony Brook University is making cyber-security a priority like never before. DoIT's Information Security team is leading the charge. A Project 50 Forward Project has been approved with a focus purely on information security program management.
Other initiatives include: Two Factor Authentication, Host-based intrusion detection, Log collection and correlation, and Vulnerability scanning.
Stony Brook is working taking the lead working with other SUNY campuses in implementing shared security services.
DoIT has also been busy responding to security tickets and alerts. Over the past 12 months, DoIT has opened and responded to over 2000 security related tickets.
DoIT’s Data Network Services team is working fast to keep up with the explosion of mobile devices on campus and the ever-growing demand for network resources. DoIT continues to add and replace wireless access points and rewire buildings to meet expectations.
Refreshed 1,800 wireless access points in the residence halls.
Completed Phase II of the Distributed Antenna System (DAS) project bringing 4G LTE Service to Verizon Wireless customers not only on West Campus, but also at LaValle Stadium, Dental School, and the Campus Utility Tunnel.
Invested in greater bandwidth (2Gbps to 10Gbps) through the New York State Education and Research Network (NYSERNet).
DoIT enabled Eduroam, allowing students, researchers and staff to obtain Internet connectivity across campus and when visiting other participating institutions.
Active Blackboard courses per semester
unique users per semester
views per semester
Total Views
New videos added in 2014-15 alone
classrooms received Apple Airplay support
classrooms outfitted with new AV systems
classrooms received new data projectors
classrooms received new computers
Added Echo Lecture Capture to six classrooms and updated four lecture capture classrooms to High Definition
Active Users (1,938 of them were new for this year)
hours of videos have been viewed
videos have been watched
Certificates of completion were issued
Exercise Files downloaded
#1 Course - Java Essential Training
Celebrated 30th Anniversary!
Unique Logins for the 2014-15 academic year
Assisted faculty with online/hybrid/flipped Courses course development projects
calls to its Student Help Desk
inquires via email
face-to-face consultations
All services supported by DoIT’s Systems and Operations team remained available and secure in 2014-15.
Except for scheduled outages for application upgrades, all other systems averaged uptimes well over 99.9%.
The campus web server stayed up more than 99.9995% of the time.
DoIT architected the $1 million high performance computing (HPC) cluster for the Institute of Advanced Computational Science. DoIT’s Operations and Systems team oversaw its deployment and initial management and worked with Data Network Services, electrical, mechanical (HVAC/plumbing/fire-suppression) to make sure all systems were ready for operation.
DoIT’s television studio team provided production support for 13 University-related events and produced approximately 130 named video projects and live streaming events in 2014-15. Some had multiple videos associated with them.
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DoIT is committed to engaging the wider campus community and promoting inclusion and education by providing, seminars, training and workshops for all.
Robyn DeLuca’s talk 'The Good News About PMS' goes viral. The talk landed on the TED home page on the day of the TED Conference and has now garnered nearly 1 million views!
264 attendees at TEDxSBU
SBUDoIT emailed out a weekly tip sheet and visited a new location on campus every week during the month of October to spread the word about National Cyber Security Awareness Month. We asked members of the community why cyber security is important.
The day-long conference was the first of its kind at Stony Brook, focusing on helping women get ahead in the workplace. Patricia Aceves, director of the Faculty Center and organizer of the symposium, said the event answered a demand for training resources at Stony Brook.
The Division of Information Technology awarded 15 scholarships to Stony Brook students this fall, more than in any year since the program started in 2005.
There were 190 attendees for the 7th annual Teaching, Learning & Technology Colloquium.
David Ecker represented the Stony Brook Innovation Lab by demonstrating a 3D printer at this year's Long Island Maker Festival.
You Asked, We Found a Way to DoIT!
Led by Research Technologies
Google Drive Unlimited Storage
File sizes up to 5 TB
Free video calls
5,777 total unique registered users
Supporting campus innovators
2,156 active users as of May 27, 2015
Print from smart phones and tablets
Developed for SUNY by SBU Students
89,429 sessions (15.63 pageviews per session) in 2014-15
1,066 blogs in SB You as of June 26, 2015
New look and features, including enrollment
Added to student lounges and in Campus Residences
New online housing system
Learning activities and games
2,382 threads created
SB's enterprise social network
DoIT administered 20 TALENT grants (Teaching and Learning Enhancements with New Technology) to faculty across campus totalling approximately $75,000.
“The exploration of the electronic lab notebook (ELN) by LabArchives, a leading company in this field, started in the fall of 2014. LabArchives offered us a discounted trial classroom edition, so I hired three former CHE 327 undergraduate TAs and a few students who had not taken CHE 327 to test the electronic lab notebook while CHE 327 was in session during the spring of 2015.
We were able to test all the functionality that suits our needs and explored some advanced features that would benefit the advanced lab courses such as CHE 384. Even though a few desired features were not available, we gave our feedback to LabArchives, and I am optimistic that an updated version of ELN classroom edition will be available next fall when we switch to ELN formally in CHE 327. Students will have to use a smartphone or a tablet in the lab. Therefore, further funding for purchasing the devices is needed. I'll also be seeking partners across the campus so we can get a site license (which is more beneficial to students financially).
I had an initial meeting with the TALENT grant administrator from Teaching, Learning & Technology and gained information about how my grant could be used. The trial version of ELN was paid using my TALENT grant, and the undergraduate TAs and students working for this project were also paid by this grant.”
—Rong Chen Director of Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratories
“We applied for a TALENT grant to help us merge lecture, recitation, collaborative problem solving, and hands-on laboratory work into a single, common experience and workspace. Rather than relying on traditional lab equipment, new Vernier LabQuests and probeware were purchased to provide a more versatile, engaging laboratory experience. The laboratory exercises had to be designed and written in a standardized manual, along with new conceptual and quantitative clicker questions for formative assessment.
“I want to emphasize how helpful TLT has been in both the design and evaluation of the classroom environment. This is cutting-edge technology that really allows students to have their data immediately. They learn better because they have more time to repeat experiments and learn from the data.”
—Angela Kelly Associate Director, Science Education and Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy
At the start of the academic year, Vice President for Information Technology Cole Camplese said that DoIT would allocate new dollars toward professional development, construct a common opportunity for sharing travel reports in Yammer and SB You, and challenged the organization to achieve 100% compliance in annual review rates.
Eight staff members in the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) dedicated their time and experience to teach several University courses. Read more about the story on the DoIT News Site.
Client Support actively incorporates the DoIT core values as the building blocks for the foundation of our service mentality and office culture.
closed tickets
“Excellent” average customer survey rating for “Professional, Courteous and Friendly” treatment.
Here is a list of major projects STARTING UP OR IN THE PLANNING PHASES, WHICH WILL EITHER BE LED BY, OR REQUIRE MAJOR DOIT CONTRIBUTIONS.
“It’s a big achievement for the University, Stony Brook Medicine, and the Long Island State Veteran’s Home to turn recruitment into a paperless process. All three Human Resource areas partnered with DOIT to collaborate in unifying a recruitment process and identifying best practices. The new Talent Management System helps us conduct effective searches and it will also improve and increase the diversity of our applicant pools by providing metrics that will measure our progress in recruiting and retaining from a diverse and talented pool. The system interfaces with People Soft, so every employee has a profile in the system and current employees now have their own portal to apply for internal only positions. TMS has also improved the candidate experience vastly, now they can create a candidate profile, see which positions they applied for and the current status of the requisition.”
Steve Riccobono
Assistant Director, Human Resources
