I.T. Times
Volume 2. No 4 Information Technology News of the University of California, Davis Summer 1994

AT&TEAL
Major Gift from AT&T Creates Environmental Analysis Lab


AT&T made the award from its University Equipment Donation Program, which is designed to support the best applications of AT&T technology in higher education. The equipment and services that establish the facility, to be known as the AT&T Environmental Analysis Lab (AT&TEAL), have a fair market value of more than $200,000.

The new lab, to be managed by IT Information Resources, will feature the following donated equipment:

Donated software for the lab includes MSDOS, MS- Windows, UNIX System V Release 4 OS, StarGROUP LAN Manager, and the TCP/IP application suite (Telnet, FTP, etc.).

The AT&TEAL will be located in the new Social Sciences building currently under construction and slated to open in fall 1994. It will be open to the general public in non-prime hours, but will serve primarily as a national demonstration and testbed teaching facility for the use of wide-area communications technology in higher education.

In its first year, the new lab will especially benefit three undergraduate courses that use distributed network resources for environmental analysis: Political Science 107, Environmental Politics and Administration; Environmental Studies 161, Environmental Law; and Political Science 122, International Law, which emphasizes international environmental law.

"This award is the first of its kind at Davis," according to Wandesforde-Smith, "and is a major vote of confidence in the steps the faculty and the administration are starting to take, together, to make this campus a national center of excellence for classroom-based applications of computers and networks. It's a big feather in the cap of IT, and a tribute to the foresight and leadership of those in the Department and the College who have supported us along the way. We look forward to a sustained partnership with AT&T and with other corporate donors."

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