Service Center: UIT Academic Technology
Purpose: UIT Academic Technology enables the university and its diverse academic communities to realize their vast potential in teaching, learning, and research through the innovative design and meaningful integration of technology to meet broad and local goals.
Major Instruments/Services:
Research Technology Infrastructure
Access: Tufts faculty, staff and students. Requests from affiliates will be examined on a case-by-case basis.
Level of service: 2
Access: Tufts faculty, staff and students. Requests from affiliates will be examined on a case-by-case basis.
Level of service: 2
Access: Tufts faculty, staff and students. Requests from affiliates will be examined on a case-by-case basis.
Level of service: 2
Research Technology Tools
Tools for Visualization: The Tufts Center for Scientific Visualization was inaugurated in 2008 (see http://sciviz.tufts.edu and http://www.tufts.edu/home/feature/?p=visualization). Using a dedicated graphics workstation, this new facility allows researchers to display stereo high-resolution images (4096x2160) on a 15ft x 8ft screen using either Red Hat Linux Enterprise, Windows or OS X environments. Users can also bring their personal laptop and display their images at a quarter of the max resolution (2048x1080). In order to access this facility, each user will be given card access and an R25 account for scheduling. In addition, each new user will be required to complete a one-hour training session.
Fee: This central service is offered at no cost to clients.
Access: Tufts faculty, staff and students. Requests from affiliates will be examined on a case-by-case basis.
Level of service: 3 and 4
Tools for Bioinformatics: Bioinformatics incorporates techniques from multiple disciplines to solve biological problems in areas that include applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science. Tufts UIT Bioinformatics Server offers a gene sequencing package Emboss/wEmboss (http://emboss.uit.tufts.edu). Request an Emboss account here: http://research.uit.tufts.edu.
Fee: This central service is offered at no cost to clients.
Access: Tufts faculty, staff and students. Requests from affiliates will be examined on a case-by-case basis.
Level of service: 2
Tools for Collaboration: An Access Grid videoconference node is installed in the Tufts Center for Scientific Visualization. The Access Grid is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments.
Fee: This central service is offered at no cost to clients.
Access: Tufts faculty, staff and students. Requests from affiliates will be examined on a case-by-case basis.
Level of service: 3 and 4
Research Consulting Services
Statistical Consulting: We provide statistical consulting assistance to faculty and graduate students for both research technology and instructional projects.
Fee: This central service is offered at no cost to clients.
Access: Tufts faculty and students. Requests from affiliates will be examined on a case-by-case basis.
Level of service: 2, 3 and 5
Technology Consultation and Planning: We assist faculty and departments with research, information, and recommendations concerning appropriate technologies for research.
Fee: This central service is offered at no cost to clients.
Access: Tufts faculty and students. Requests from affiliates will be examined on a case-by-case basis.
Level of service: 5
Monitoring, Design, Implementation and Application of Emerging Technologies for Research Applications: We constantly investigate how Tufts researchers can excel in their fields by leveraging new technologies.
Fee: This central service is offered at no cost to clients.
Access: Tufts faculty and students. Requests from affiliates will be examined on a case-by-case basis.
Level of service: 5
Preferred Contact: Lionel Zupan, lionel.zupan@tufts.edu, (617) 627-4933
Campus: all three campuses
Website: http://uit.tufts.edu/at/?pid=14
Level of Service: