Information Technology exists to provide excellent customer service to New College of Florida. This includes, but is not limited to: campus data and voice networks, whether wired or wireless; local and hosted applications, whether on campus or off-campus; internet and intranet; classroom, administrative, and dormitory technology; and media and multimedia services.  Our constituents include staff, faculty, students and alumni.  Different services are offered to each group and we strive to provide each with timely, complete solutions.  The office provides strategic direction, vision and leadership for all Information Technology affecting New College of Florida.

IT provides free Internet access and email accounts to all on-campus students.  Each residence hall room has campus network access. IT also provides training to the campus community.  Our software services range from word processing, spreadsheet and database applications to full Internet access.  

The Information Technology Open Use Laboratory is located on the first floor of the PMA building (West campus).  The Help Desk office is located in PMA 129.

Assistance.  If you need assistance with a computer, you can enter your request on our CallTrack help desk system.  Responses will be sent directly back to your email account.  If your problem cannot be resolved in that manner, you can send a request for assistance to the Information Technology email.

Computer Access.  The Open Use computer lab (PMA 127) with Pentium based computers is available for all currently enrolled students, staff and faculty.  Microsoft Office, Internet browsers, email programs and other appropriate applications are available on these computers.  You can consult the listing of lab hours for details on availability.

Email Accounts.  You may sign up for an email account by filling out an application form: click here to fill out the email request form.  It will take about one week for the account to be established.  This account is required to gain free Internet access when dialing in from your home or residence hall.

Mailman List Serv.  A mailing list is simply a list of addresses to which a given communication is being sent. In the case of an electronic mailing list like Mailman, we use a list of email addresses from people interested in hearing about or discussing a given topic.

WebBoard.  A powerful and easy to use collaborative message board, threaded postings, attachments, chat, individual conferences and more.

Ansible, the New College of Florida Portal.  Ansible gives you access to online services including your Outlook e-mail, course registration through New CLEIS, a calendar system, College announcements, Banner, a course collaboration tool, etc.

Personal Web Pages.  Faculty, staff and currently enrolled students can have their own personal website on our server.  For students, all the information you need to get and maintain a personal student website is available on the student web server page.  Please remember that you are responsible for any information published on your web page.

The ETS Center, located on the second floor of the Jane Bancroft Cook Library, assists students, faculty and staff with all of their multimedia and digital content creation needs.  ETS supports a variety of educational software applications and can offer help and advice for projects or presentations.

Equipment and training is available for students and faculty who wish to incorporate digital photography, digital video, and other software (e.g. web-based applications) as part of the educational experience.  The ETS Center provides listening and viewing areas, a small computer lab, and special project workstations that are available by appointment.  Cameras, camcorders, recording devices, laptops, and projectors may be checked out for course-related projects.

The IT Application Support and Development Group provides a full suite of administrative applications for staff, students and faculty.  These application tools provide business office functions for general accounting, purchasing, accounts payable, budgeting, accounts receivable, parking, HR, payroll as well as student administrative needs for admissions, housing, financial aid, registration, scheduling, billing and evaluation. A number of automated interfaces also have been developed and implemented to enable New College to leverage the most effective and efficient means to transmit and receive information critical to processing campus wide transactions and reporting.

The Natural Sciences Division is housed in the 34,000 square foot Heiser Natural Sciences Complex, which was completed in 2000. The Heiser Natural Sciences Complex consists of the William G. Selby and Marie Selby Building for Biology and Chemistry, the Paul H. Hanson Building for Mathematics and Physics, and the Soo Bong Chae Memorial Auditorium. The Selby and Hanson buildings were designed to enhance the close collaboration between teacher-scholars and undergraduate student-scholars crucial to the mission of New College. They contain 20 well-equipped research and teaching laboratories, including a 15-station computer laboratory and instrument rooms. Research and teaching laboratory spaces are either combined or directly connected by doorways, and faculty offices in the laboratory sciences have windows with views into the laboratories, closely connecting faculty with student work at all times. A highlighted feature is the 24-station chemistry teaching laboratory with twelve transparent fume hoods. Situated at the vertex of the complex, the Soo Bong Chae Memorial Auditorium is a multi-media lecture and demonstration space with three tiers of seating for nearly 90 participants.

In keeping with the New College policy of actively engaging students in research projects, research education is emphasized, and students learn to use instruments early in their program. Highly sophisticated equipment is available to research students in biology, chemistry, biochemistry, mathematics and physics.

The biology laboratories are equipped with a variety of microscopes including research-grade analytical light microscopes, a fluorescence microscope, and a scanning electron microscope, to offer an unusually rich experience. In addition, the biology laboratories have a photographic darkroom, incubators for culturing organisms and testing animal behavior, controlled temperature chambers, digital imaging computers, and analytical instrumentation including an HPLC. A new program in toxicology gives students gives students the opportunity to combine interests in chemistry and biology. A greenhouse and a herbarium of regional plants are available. Students interested in field ecology have access to a variety of sampling equipment including secchi discs, DO meters, nephelometers, salinometer/conductivity meters, Nansen bottles and nets.

In both biology and biochemistry laboratories, extensive equipment is available for molecular biology projects. Equipment for analyzing DNA, RNA, and proteins includes vertical (large and small) and horizontal gel boxes for electrophoresis, high voltage power supplies, western transfer boxes, and automatic pipetters. Temperature cyclers for performing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), as well as a laminar flow hood for eukaryotic cell culture, are also available.  A real-time PCR instrument for quantitative gene expression analysis and genetic variation detection was recently purchased with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

The Jack and Rhoda Pritzker Marine Biology Research Center (PMBRC) provides aquaria and holding facilities for marine organisms, laboratories, and tools that facilitate scientific experimentation. Seawater is pumped from Sarasota Bay, then preconditioned and treated prior to entering research aquaria. The Living Ecosystem Teaching and Research Aquarium includes five medium-sized aquaria, one large aquarium, and a single shallow tank. Each aquarium features a different captive ecosystem. Included are bay shore and local water ecosystems, and a diversity of near shore systems from non-local tropical to temperate regions. Cameras have been installed in the large aquarium and the medium live coral aquarium and send images to a streaming video server.  This allows sharing of data on the web and permits detailed analysis of animal behavior in the tanks. Another camera in the invertebrate tank will be equipped with infrared capabilities for observations in near dark conditions, for expanded research opportunities. Faculty research laboratories, student research laboratories, and ground level tanks provide holding and culture facilities for maintaining organisms (both fish and marine invertebrates) for research and research education. The PMBRC's classroom contains a "wet" section with holding tanks and shallow sea tables. The sea tables are well suited to handling and observing small marine organisms.  We have recently acquired a new steromicroscope with pixel shift technology to  produce high resolution images.

Chemistry laboratories provide excellent research and teaching facilities for chemical synthesis, separation and structure determination, and for a variety of studies of structure, bonding and reactivity. Specialized glassware, photochemical apparatus, and glove boxes for work in controlled atmospheres allow many different synthetic methods to be used. A spin-coater is available for constructing ultra-thin organic films down to a fraction of a nanometer. Gas and high-pressure liquid chromatography are available for separations, and structure determination can be carried out by use of nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. In addition to the recently upgraded 60 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer used in the introductory labs, there is a research grade 250 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer.  A sensitive, new gas chromatograph – mass spectrometer was purchased with a grant from EPA.

A research-grade electrochemical apparatus allows study of fast electrochemical reactions, and chemical kinetics can be studied using computer-controlled ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometers. Three Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometers are used for teaching and research as well as for characterization of inorganic and organic molecules and for experiments in physical chemistry.

The physical chemistry laboratory is also equipped with tools for modern surface characterization techniques, which include a state-of-the-art dynamic surface tensiometer, a single wavelength ellipsometer, and a static tensiometer. Most of the more specialized instruments for teaching and research are computer-controlled through LabView. Our PTI fluorescence research instrument is the most sensitive bench-top fluorometer available and is used in the physical chemistry laboratory for energy transfer and kinetics studies.

The mathematics program at New College has built a strong sense of community, resting in part on the existence of a place for faculty and students to gather and do mathematics-the Math Reading Room. This large seminar/study room is used for an active schedule of seminars, presentations, workshops, problem sessions, tutoring, and discussions. This stimulating interaction is highly valued by students, and contributes greatly to their growth and development in mathematics. The Math Reading Room is equipped with a computer that supports many different types of software (Mathematica, Maple, Illustrator, and others) and provides Internet access. Beginning and advanced laboratories are equipped with a variety of microcomputers, with additional workspace for upper-level students.  Recent additions in the areas of computational science and applied mathematics complement the theoretical areas of algebra, geometry, topology, analysis, and theoretical computer science, allowing the faculty to offer a variety of courses and tutorials to challenge students with different backgrounds. 

The physics program has space for laboratory work at all levels, including a specially equipped laser lab with vibration-sensitive equipment mounted on Newport pneumatic isolation tables. In addition, the physics program is adjacent to the computer lab, allowing access to software such as Mathematica.

The physics labs are equipped to support full semester courses in Introductory Lab (2 semesters), Modern Physics Lab, Electronics Lab, and Optics Lab. The introductory physics lab is fully computerized to allow interfacing of equipment to computers, and instant analysis and display of results. Beyond the regular course level, there are laboratories for doing advanced projects. These include measuring the speed of light with a rotating mirror apparatus, measuring the strength of gravity with a Cavendish setup, studying crystal structure with X-rays, electronic measurements on semiconductors, performing optical experiments with lasers, precision interferometry, electron and proton spin resonance, nuclear counting with a multichannel analyzer, and UV-VIS miniature fiber optic spectroscopy. Physics has two computer-controlled optical telescopes, a Meade 10.5" LX200, and a Meade 127ED 5" refractor with CD photography capacity.

At the research level, the labs have lock-in amplifiers, an FFT signal analyzer, a UV Nd:YAG laser system, a motorized micropositioning stage and pyroelectric energy meter, a Quesant Q-scope 250 Atomic Force Microscope, a 1000X LOMO Multiscope optical microscope with a trinocular head and attached Nikon digital camera, and a spin-coating apparatus for thin film preparation.

The Mildred Sainer Music and Arts Pavilion, also known as the Caples Fine Arts Complex, is comprised of buildings and spaces dedicated to the study of art, music, and theater.  Sainer Auditorium (257seats plus 3 wheelchair positions) is suitable for chamber music recitals, lectures and small dramatic productions, and houses a 7-foot Steinway B grand piano. The lobby doubles as a reception area and a space for art exhibits. The Christiane Felsmann Fine Arts Building features studio space for faculty and advanced art students, and a printmaking studio/arts lab, which includes eight Macintosh computers and peripherals that support the art and music programs.  The Betty Isermann Fine Arts Building provides gallery space for the display of work by New College students alongside work of the artist for whom the building is named, Betty Isermann.  The Isermann Building also includes a drawing and a painting studio, and a small seminar room for slide lectures and discussions.  The Sculpture Building features woodworking and welding facilities, a four-foot high kiln, a tool room, an outdoor slab, and a sculpture studio with a 21-foot ceiling.  Practice rooms, classrooms, and storage space for students’ instruments can be found in the Lota Mundy Music Building, which also makes available three Kawai upright and two Kawai grand pianos to students for practice.  These buildings enclose a large grassy area that can serve as a unique teaching space, as well as an outdoor exhibition space. A small outdoor stage constructed in back of Sainer Auditorium provides an additional place for informal gatherings, class meetings, practice, concerts, lectures, or theatrical performances.