Centers sponsor col-loquia, workshops, conferences, and visiting scholars. They administer international exchange programs, enhance library holdings and other collections, publish papers and monographs, maintain archives, and employ graduate research assistants. Facilities Strong and nationally funded research facilities, like the Facility for High Resolution Electron Microscopy and the Planetary Geology Laboratory have attained national and international prominence. Important research collections include one of the largest meteorite collections in the world, the holdings of the anthropology archives and museum, the space photography collection, the Herbarium, and extensive library holdings, including important manuscript collections in late 19th-Century British literature and historical documents of the Southwest. Graduate students in all disciplines have access to outstanding computer facilities.
Mainframe computing for research is provided free of charge.
There are substantial microcomputer facilities within individual academic units as well as clusters serving the humanities and social sciences. Minicomputer capabilities are found in various academic units. Also refer to the description of computing facilities and services . In addition to the usual support for graduate students in the form of stipends and teaching and research assistantships, there is a vigorous funding program to support graduate student research. Not only do graduate students obtain grants from external sources to support their research projects, they also receive support from the college and university to present papers at professional meetings.