Technical Resources of the School of Public Health

This unit provides assistance to SPH faculty, staff and students through support of their computing needs.
Visit their web site at: http://www.uic.edu/sph/it

This facility houses materials relevant to SPH course work and areas of research. Frequently consulted books, textbooks, reference works, recent issues of numerous public health-related journals, selected U.S. government publications, SPH theses, and reference materials provided by faculty are based in the Reference Center. In addition, there are 16 IBM compatible computers for accessing the Internet, National Library of Medicine, and other on-line public health data bases. For further information, contact Bruce J. Kresnoff, Director, Reference Center, at 312-996-3447.
Visit their website at: http://www.uic.edu/sph/resources/reference/

UIC Computer Center

The university's central instructional and research computers (IBM 3090 / 300J / Vector Facility) and several large UNIX work stations offer a wide range of programming languages and software packages. SPH users will find the large variety of statistical packages, mathematical libraries, modeling packages, simulation languages, data base management programs, and word processing systems especially useful. Training and consulting are provided by the Computer Center staff and by SPH faculty and staff.

Each student has a unique account number and is allocated sufficient computer time. Access to the central computer is excellent. Two computer laboratories will be available in the school's new building at 1603 West Taylor Street. There are twenty-six hard-wired terminals and a medium-speed printer for student use in the SPH-West building at 2121 West Taylor Street and thirty-five hard-wired terminals and a medium-speed printer for general student use at the Benjamin Goldberg Research Center, 1940 West Taylor Street. The Computer Center also maintains banks of modems for off-campus access. These dial-up connections provide access to the Computer Center mainframe systems, and to other systems and services throughout the United States and the world via the Internet.

University Library System

The University Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago, consisting of the Main Library, the Architecture and Art Library, the Library of the Health Sciences, the Mathematics Library, and the Science Library, provides collections for students in all curricular areas, for graduate programs, and for faculty research.

Library holdings number more than 3.5 million items, including 1.7 million books and bound periodicals and over 1.8 million other items such as microfilms, maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, curriculum materials, music scores, and recordings. The University Library currently receives 18,300 periodical titles. Students have full access to books and other materials shelved on the open stacks.

Library of the Health Sciences

This library supports teaching, research, and clinical programs in dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and the associated health professions. More than 15,900 current periodicals are available as well as some 491,000 other items: books, bound periodicals, multimedia items, and government documents.

A large number of on-line data files for searching international literature in the health sciences are available. Included are MEDLINE, ERIC, Psychological Abstracts Condensates, and INFORM. The library is part of the MEDLINE network and has access to TOXLINE and CANCERLINE data bases. Materials can be transferred anywhere in Illinois within three days through the Illinois Library Delivery System.

Laboratory Facilities

The UIC Research Resources Center (RRC) works with research and teaching departments to obtain, maintain, and support high technology, scientific research equipment. It provides training, instrumentation for user operation, services, and expertise in the application of a wide range of instrumental techniques for chemical, biological, and structural characterization. The availability of computational and statistical methods for data handling and interpretation of experimental results, and the services of electronic and mechanical shops, enable researchers to design and perform sophisticated experimental protocols. Facilities maintained by RRC include:

Biostatistics Facility

This facility provides assistance regarding experimental design, statistical testing and modeling, data interpretation, and guidance in computer analysis of numerical data.

Electron Microscope Facility

This facility provides one scanning and seven transmission microscopes and equipment and technologists ancillary to the electron microscope work.

Environmental Stress Facility

This facility contains provisions for the simulation of unusual environments. Hypobaric chambers and psychometric rooms in which pressure, temperature, vapor pressure, and lighting can be controlled are provided.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory

This facility maintains high-resolution NMR spectrometers and a mass spectrometer plus ancillary equipment for the purpose of determining molecular structures, quantities, and interactions in materials of biomedical importance, including intact tissues.

Biologic Resources Laboratory

This facility is centrally administered and professionally staffed. It procures, houses, and cares for laboratory animals used in biomedical research and instruction.

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