GIS (Geographical Information Systems). GIS is a database and mapping application that allows researchers to examine and analyze information spatially. The campus supports the ARC software system from ESRI (located in Redlands), which is available at very low cost to campus users. Faculty in CHASS have used GIS to study everything from spatial patterns of crime and police activity to the locations of human settlements and natural resources.
A
"support network" for faculty and students
who want to use GIS has been created. The website
http://gis.ucr.edu
provides information about the access to the software
that is provided by Computing and Communications, low
cost training that is provided by University Extension,
free or low cost data sets and maps that are mostly
from government sources and can be wonderful teaching
tools.
We are working, along with CNAS, Libraries, and Extension,
to make the GIS support network a useful resource to
support researchers who want to prepare grant proposals
or who have grant funds to support applications of GIS
in their work (both research and instruction). Faculty
in CHASS and CNAS continue working on developing a proposal
to combine the current support network infrastructure
and future business plan to expand the capability of
the system.
Statistical
Consulting Collaboratory. This facility
is funded by CHASS, CNAS, and Computing and Communications,
and is designed to support research and graduate instruction
that utilizes quantitative data and statistical applications
software (e.g. SAS, Stata, EViews, MiniTab, MatLab,
SPSS, etc.). 
The Collaboratory was opened in 2002-03 and has had a highly successful first year of operation. Numerous classes, short courses, and demonstration/training sessions were held in the Sproul Hall facility, which also provided a high-quality work environment for faculty and graduate students. Instruction at the lab can be simultaneously provided to 35 student workstations or more.
Dan Jeske, Professor of Statistics
is the faculty director to work with faculty and students
to support proposal development, instruction, and consulting
on statistical and data analysis problems. He can
be reached at (909) 787- 3014 and email daniel.jeske@ucr.edu.
More information about this facility and its services
are available from the website http://collaboratory.ucr.edu.
Arts/Multimedia
Laboratory. This laboratory founded
by CHASS and Comupting and Communications has been highly
successfu
l
in providing access to high-quality hardware, software,
and support for faculty and students working with sound,
image, moving image data, and film script writing. The
laboratory has 18 workstations in its instructional
facility in the Arts Building 311. New digital
audio and visual editing capacities have also been added
in the building and are available by arrangement. Faculty
can reach Mark Nicolay, Lab Manager, at (909) 787-3555
and e-mail mark.nicolay@ucr.edu
for supports. More information cab be found by clicking
on the image on the right or the lab name in the beginning
of this paragraph.
Digital Media Exchange/Storage
Servers. The College is supporting two
large capacity file servers for digital media and arts
instruction. In the past years, College's digital artists
and musicians have used the file server to enable file
exchange among students in their classes, and to support
their own research/performance work. A very large collection
of special effect sound files established by Prof. Tim
Labor is also available for faculty and student for
instruction purpose. To learn more about access to this
free service, please contact C3: by
e-mail James Lin at james.lin@ucr.edu,
or phone extension 2-5031.
CATI (Computer-Assisted-Telephone-Interviewing). A small laboratory at Sproul Hall next to the Statistical Consulting Colaboratory with 8 workstations has been established in Winter 2004 to support UCR researchers and faculty who may wish to conduct telephone polling.
Telephone polling with CATI makes it possible to automatically compile data from telephone interviews, so that basic results are available immediately. CATI is very commonly used in polling work in political science/policy analysis, opinion/attitude research in social and environmental sciences, business, and education, as well as for advertising/solicitation.
The laboratory is a campus resource, developed through cooperation among CHASS, The Center for Social and Behavioral Science Research, the Policy Studies Initiative, the Ernesto Galarza Applied Research Center, Computing and Communications, and CHASS College Computing.
Please contact Prof. Martin Johnson at (909) 787- 4612
or email martin.johnson@ucr.edu
for the CATI system issues. Contact James Lin at
(909) 787-5031 or e-mail jame.lin@ucr.edu
for technical issues.
Campus Research Technology Policy. Technological support for the research needs of our faculty and students in difficult budgetary times is a great challenge. To assure that the campus as a whole, the College, and your department set priorities that will best serve your needs, it is very important that you participate in guiding our development. There are many ways that you can provide input.
The EVC has charged the VC Research and AVC Computing and Communications to develop an overall vision statement for the campus research technology development. You can provide input directly to either or both of these officers.