FAST FIVE for the week of June 9, 2013

Information Technology Award: The YMCA-YWCA of Guelph recently honoured Gayleen Gray as the recipient of the  Information Technology Award for her contributions to IT on the University of Guelph campus. Gayleen is the current Associate Director of IT Strategy & Partnership within the University of Guelph’s Computing and Communications Services (CCS).   Gayleen Gray 

Canadian higher education IT conference: CANHEIT 2013 starts today in Ottawa. This year's theme is "Exceptional ideas for a changing world" and the conference continues till June 12. CANHEIT 2013

New portal: The University of Waterloo is investigating student portal opportunities and they are inviting student input. The input sessions will address features students would like to see and how could the portal make their life easier. uWaterloo portal

Email outage: The University of Lethbridge experienced an unusual reason for an email outage this week - a flood. A water main broke causing the flooding that led to the outage. Email outage

Security blog post: A great article by Eric van Wiltenburg (University of Victoria) on password management challenges in an academic environment: Password advice