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During this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Baylor University marks 20 years of joining the nationwide effort to encourage vigilance in following cybersecurity best practices during October and throughout the year. As AI accelerates the rate and scale at which cybercriminals operate, Baylor ITS encourages using strong passcodes with multifactor authentication, heightening diligence around messages and phone calls, keeping current with software updates, backing up important files, restricting the exposure of personally identifiable information, and avoiding clicking links or responding to ads that are too good to be true. When followed together, these tactics create difficulties for cybercriminals and significantly enhance the security of personal and institutional information.

Dr. Clayton Mulvihill, Assistant Professor of Engineering in Baylor's School of Engineering and Computer Science, leads a team of researchers in the Reaction Kinetics Lab who use Baylor's high-performance computing platforms to further research into new energy sources.

The BaylorITS Research Technology team highlights the exceptional use of research technology among the talented research community at Baylor University through Computing Catalyst feature articles. In this fifth edition of Computing Catalyst, we explore the world of microbiomes and bacteria through the research of Schofield Endowed Chair in Biomedical Science, Professor Aaron Wright, Ph.D.

Baylor will restore access to the Canvas system at 1:00 p.m. CT today (Friday, May 8). Instructure restored the Canvas system for Baylor and other colleges and universities nationwide to operating condition overnight. Final exams currently scheduled for today will be conducted on Thursday, May 14, and all will be administered online. (Clarification: Final exams originally scheduled for today will be conducted online on Thursday, May 14. All remaining exams will continue as scheduled.) Please pay close attention to the information and instructions below.