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The Geography Department's Computer Laboratories are located in two rooms, LeFrak 1136 & 1138. LeFrak 1138 contains 26 Ultra 10 UNIX workstations and are available to all members of the campus community. LeFrak 1136 contains 26 Dell workstations are used only in conjunction with Geography coursework. Two printers (an HP Laserjet 8150 TN and an HP Color Laserjet 4500) and two large-format digitizers are also available for student use.
Each semester the Open Laboratory houses the lab component of around a half dozen Geography courses. This makes the Open Laboratory the primary computing facility for the Geography coursework of over 100 undergraduate and graduate students (both Geography majors and several dozen non-Geography majors) each semester.
About Scott Turner
Scott Turner was a friend and colleague of the Department of Geography who passed away on Thursday, 27 November, 1997.
When the Department's facilities moved back into LeFrak Hall in 1998 following extensive renovations to the building, the Open Laboratory was renamed the Turner Instructional Computer Laboratory.
His memorial pages are accessible through this link: In Memory of Scott Turner.
A formal dedication of the lab was held on February 12th, 1999.
SCOTT TURNER 1947-1997
Geographer, Computer Scientist and One Heck of a Sailor
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Department of Geography, 2181 LeFrak Hall, University of Maryland, College Park MD
20742 Phone: 01-301-405-4050 Fax: 01-301-0314-9299 © 2006, All Rights Reserved |
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