These are just
a few of the many facilities that help College of Arts and Sciences
students excel inside the classroom and out.
The Geddes
Language Center, founded in 1960, offers audio and video
resources for students of modern foreign languages and literatures.
It includes labs for audio listening and video viewing, computer access,
a viewing room for foreign film showings, and audio and video studios
for students and faculty to create their own audio and videotapes.
The
Life Science and Engineering Building, scheduled to be
completed in July 2005 on Cummington Street, will house faculty
from the College of Arts and Sciences’ biology and chemistry
departments, from the College of Engineering’s biomedical
engineering department, and from the University’s graduate
program in bioinformatics. The 10-story building will also include
41 laboratories, 45 faculty offices, conference rooms, and a 150-seat
seminar room. The building will be organized by research interest
rather than department, and will allow students and faculty to work
on cross-disciplinary scientific research.
The
Judson B. Coit Observatory, located on the roof of the
College of Arts and Sciences building at 725 Commonwealth Avenue,
is used for both undergraduate and graduate-level astronomy courses
and is also home to the Boston University Astronomical Society.
In addition, the observatory is open to the public every Wednesday
evening.
Discipline-specific
libraries, including libraries in anthropology, archaeology,
astronomy, classical studies, and economics, are all available to
students, as well as access to the extensive
Boston University Library System.
The
Weather Station, run by the geography department and
located at the top of the College of Arts and Sciences building,
offers 30-minute weather updates via the Internet. |
