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Searching for a Better Understanding of Mentally-Disordered Perpetrators of Violent Crime |
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Two New Computer Labs in McCormack Hall: Students Networked for Success |
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Serving students in distinct categories&emdash;those enhancing information technology career skills and those beginning undergraduate careers&emdash;two new computer labs have been created on the third floor of McCormack Hall.
Boasting seventeen Pentium III Dell 9.6-gigabyte PCs, each running Windows NT 4 Servicepack 4, with a Dell PowerEdge 2300 server, the Division of Continuing Education's new lab (M-3-129) supports classes including "Network Essentials," "Creating Webpages with Macromedia Dreamweaver," "Developing Web Pages with Frontpage 2000," and "Webpage Design." The workstations are all connected to the World Wide Web and the UMass Boston network.
"Our objective was to quickly bring to the public a list of training topics responsive to current workplace needs," says Continuing Education's director of professional training programs, Jack Hughes. He adds, "By seeking the advice of faculty such as Oscar Gutierrez and practitioners such as Kristen Sutton from Polaroid, we have been able to determine the cutting edge."
Down the hallway, another lab is slated to open in June. This "smart classroom" (M-3-617) is the result of smart thinking by Vice Provost Patricia Davidson, who realized that facilities made possible by a Board of Higher Education grant for board-mandated entry testing could also serve twenty sections of UMass Boston's new quantitative reasoning general education course each year.
Professor Mark Pawlak, who teaches a pilot quantitative reasoning course (INTR-D 114), explains that computers enable students to visualize and manipulate complex data in ways that are impossible with simple chalkboard teaching.
Vice Provost Davidson credits a long list of individuals for their assistance, including Lee Nason, James Morrison, Charlie Boland, Joan Becker, Mark Pawlak, Linda Kime, Cynthia Jahn, Estelle Disch, Joey Horsley, John Applebee, Julie McCusker Sanabri, Steve Kiser, and Ray Melcher. "There are still many steps to be taken before the classroom becomes a reality," Davidson says. "The efforts of everyone involved are greatly appreciated."