School of Public Health Resources and Facilities
School of Public Health Computer Listserves
There are two student listserves at SPH: SPHNEWS and SPHVIEWS.
The SPHNEWS Computer listserve is the main way for students to receive the latest official announcements relevant to their careers in public health while at UIC. It is the primary communications link between students and faculty and staff. By subscribing to this electronic mailing list, students will receive email messages almost daily about:
Only School administrators can post to SPHNEWS. If students have items that are appropriate to post to this listserve they should contact their Division's Academic Coordinator or Debbie Meiselman, the Student Affairs Coordinator, for help with getting the information posted.
Signing up to be on the listserve is easy and it doesn't cost anything. To subscribe to the SPHNEWS Student Listserve: 1) Create a computer account online in one of the SPH computer labs; in any public computer lab on campus; or in-person at the Benjamin Goldberg building (1940 West Taylor Street); and 2) Send an email message to Huey@uic.edu and write in the email subject line "add to SPHNEWS Listserve". Provide your name and email address in the body of your email.
The second SPH listserve is SPHVIEWS. This is an open and unmoderated forum for expression of ideas, for announcements of events of interest to all students, for posting of news and views of interest to public health students, faculty, alumni and community practitioners.
To subscribe to SPHVIEWS follow the steps listed above and write in the email subject line "add to SPHVIEWS Listserve".
While subscribed to the SPH listserves, it is important to be tolerant and respectful of other points of view that may be expressed on them. Sending inflammatory or disrespectful messages to anyone on the listserve is grounds for being removed from the list and may result in other sanctions. By reading message descriptions you can often tell whether you want to open and read a message’s content. If a message does not seem relevant or interesting, simply hit the "delete" key before opening and reading a message.
It is also important to respond to the appropriate person or persons on the listserve accordingly. Unless a message is addressed to you personally and not to the SPHVIEWS Listserve, if you use the reply feature your message will be sent to the entire list. To respond to someone on the listserve individually (and privately), be sure to put their address in the "To" line when you are composing your message.
You can leave SPHVIEWS at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF SPHVIEWS" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU.
The School of Public Health Paul Q. Peterson Study Center, located on the first floor of the 1603 West Taylor Street Building, offers a quiet study area with tables and chairs for student use. Students will have access to this area during all hours that the building is open, as the Study Center will never be locked. In addition, students who sign up for after-hour entry into the building will also be able to use the Study Center and its computers. The Study Center is conveniently located immediately adjacent to one of the building's two computer labs with seventeen public health workstations: IBM compatible personal computers with Internet connections. Students can access an extensive collection of online databases from the public health workstations including LCS (Library Circulation System) and LUIS (Library Users Information Service), a database useful for locating books, serials, and subject headings at other campuses. The public health workstations are free of charge to SPH students.
The School of Public Health operates three personal computer labs. One lab, located on the fifth floor of the School of Public Health-West building has 26 pentium class personal computers, a laser printer, a display device, an overhead projector, a projection screen and a white board. All of the computers in the lab are connected to the UIC ACCC’s local area network via ethernet connection. This connection provides a wide variety of software, and email and Internet access. Two computer labs are located in the SPHPI building at 1603 West Taylor Street. The larger of the two labs is equipped with 31 hard-wired terminals and a high capacity laser printer, a display device, a projection screen and a white board. The smaller lab is located in the SPH Paul Q. Peterson Study Center and has 17 hard-wired terminals and a high capacity laser printer. The labs are available for public use when not being used by a class. A validated UIC identification card is needed to enter the SPH after normal business hours and on weekends.
Student Lounges and Additional Study Areas
In SPH-W, lounge areas for students are available on the first and fifth floors. The fifth floor lounge contains vending machines and a microwave oven.
In SPHPI, a cafè (110), vending machine area (112) and a parenting room (138), are located on the first floor. In addition, The Alan W. Donaldson Student Lounge (194) as well as other lounge areas are provided for student use and are located on the first floor. Two group study rooms (134 and 142) and five smaller interview rooms (103, 105, 107, 130, and 131) are also located on the first floor. Students may reserve these rooms by signing the reservation sheet located on the doors to each room.
Common areas are also located on floors six, seven and eight of SPHPI.
The 2121 West Taylor Building is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Those entering before or after normal business hours will need to call ahead to make special arrangements. The 1603 West Taylor Street Building is open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. After-hour access to both buildings will be by key-card only. To obtain key-card access, contact the SPH Office of Student Affairs, Room 175 SPHPI.