The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a major research university with one of the best libraries in the country. The Geology Library has an outstanding collection, including maps and multimedia material. Several large supercomputers are available in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications on campus. Approximately 120 workstations and personal computers are supported by the department and individual professors. All are networked within the department and connected to the university network backbone and the Internet.
All machines are new within the last two years.
An additional 13 new Macintosh computers are reserved for undergraduate classes but may be available for after class general use. For use in class, the department has a notebook computer and portable computer projector system. In addition, most of the lecture halls on campus contain built-in multimedia units with network connections. Software for image processing, programming, and data analysis is available. All graduate students and any undergraduate who requests one are provided accounts on the departmental computers and storage space for personal web pages and research.