Computing Facilities on Campus

Electronic Classrooms:

• The two lecture halls (201A&B) in the Loew Center are equipped for computer-generated presentations which can project the same images to both sides simultaneously. Both sides also have user friendly computer systems. There are plans to upgrade the current digital projectors this summer. The second floor Foster Hospital Break Room, and LAH conference room 800 will be the recipient of the current Loew Center data projectors, and computers will be provided for each site, as well, to support the projectors.

• The Loew basement laboratory, TL-011, has been made laptop ready by installing computer jacks at every seat. This space was further upgraded by adding built-in digital projection for a variety of formats (DVD, video, kodachrome) in a system linked to monitors throughout the room.. A computerized overhead document camera also has been installed in this space.

• The Varis Lecture Hall can project videos, computer generated PowerPoint and conventional slides, or material from online sources. A built in video camera allows capture of lectures on tape, and all presentations can be recorded through the computer, as well. A computerized overhead document camera has been installed, and every desk has a computer jack and power source. The wireless sound system will be upgraded this summer.

• The McGrath Laboratory Building features a video capture unit and monitors throughout the lab to enable students to see prosections and other demonstrations performed from where they stand at the dissection table. This lab has doubled as a large animal clinical anatomy laboratory. A fresh necropsy of a horse was done in this site, with images of the necropsy shown throughout the room and recorded for future use. Kodachrome slides, via real time slide to video conversion, DVD, videotapes, and document/specimen cameras can be transmitted through the monitors to students. The wireless sound system will be upgraded this summer. Dr. Kumar has said that his anatomy laboratory is the best of its kind in the nation.

• McGrath small group rooms have been augmented with the addition of 5 multiheaded microscopes, purchased from the Medical School for clinical pathology, pathology and histology teaching.

• Three videomicroscopes were purchased, allowing real time conversion of glass slides to video projection. One is housed in the Loew Center, one in the Varis Lecture Hall area, and one in the McGrath teaching laboratory building

For information on the use of the projection equipment, please call Andy Cunningham, ext. 8-4837

General Computing Areas:

• Webster Library Computer Laboratory in the Loew Center has been renovated to expand the seating capacity. Dr. Leav recently used this laboratory successfully to teach pathology to 40 first year students, using 20 computers. Student computers can be controlled from an instructor workstation using Linknet. The desktops are equipped with 20 extra data jacks to accommodate laptop users.

  For information on scheduling the lab or instruction on use of the Linknet system, call Betsy Like, ext. 8-7925

• Loew Student Lounge has four computers that allow students 24/7 access to the same computer resources in the library computer lab.

• The Varis Computer alcove with six computers enhances student access to email, the Internet, and general computer use. Two more computers will be installed this summer.

• A Computer desk with four computers was installed in the lobby area of McGrath for email, the Internet, and general computer use.

• Data ports (jacks) have been placed throughout the space, i.e., student lounges, lobby areas, seminar rooms, etc., to allow students and faculty network access.

For more information about the Varis & McGrath computing areas, contact Bob Ertsgard, ext. 8-8777