Computing Facilities on Campus

Electronic Classrooms:

• The two lecture halls (201A&B) in the Loew Medical Education Center are equipped for computer-generated presentations which can project the same images to both sides simultaneously. Every seat has an electrical outlet. Wireless Internet access is available throughout the building.

• The Loew basement laboratory, TL-011, is laptop ready with computer jacks and an electrical outlet at every seat. Wireless Internet access is also available. This space includes a 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 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.

• 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 in the Loew Medical Education Center has eight PC computers, a scanner, black and white laserjet printer and a color laserjet printer. Additionally the library has 25 laptops that can be checked out for teaching purposes or personal use.
• The Student Lounge in the Loew Medical Education Center has four computers and a black and white laserjet printer, allowing 24/7 access to the same computer resources in the library.
• The Varis Computer alcove (outside Varis Lecture Hall) has six computers with access to email, the Internet, and general computer use.
• The lobby area of the McGrath Veterinary Teaching Laboratory has four computers with access to email, the Internet, and general computer use.
• Data ports (jacks) have been placed throughout the campus spaces, i.e., student lounges, lobby areas, seminar rooms, etc., to allow students and faculty network access.

For information on reserving laptops for instructional use, call Betsy Like, ext. 8-7925

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