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Facilities

The Walter S. Hunter Laboratory houses most facilities for research and teaching in Psychology. It includes laboratory facilities for research in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, sensation and perception, behavior and cognition, and social psychology.

The first floor of Hunter houses Carmichael Auditorium, a recently refurbished lecture hall with 250+ seating. There are also teaching laboratories for introductory and advanced courses that have computers and specialized equipment. The second floor of Hunter houses the Seminar Room where most graduate seminars are held, classrooms, and administrative and faculty offices. The third, fourth, and basement levels house additional faculty and graduate student offices and laboratory space for faculty and graduate student research.

Hunter laboratory is conveniently located near the center of the Brown campus, and it is close to the buildings housing the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, the Department of Neuroscience, and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Graduate Students in Psychology often enroll in courses other than life sciences, and also in courses in Applied Mathemetics and Computer Science.

Computer resources in Hunter include several teaching laboratories with numerous computers. There is an an extensive network of Windows, Macintosh, and linux workstations sharing a department server, numerous networked printers, and resources such as sheet and slide scanners. The Department network is connected to the rest of the campus, and to the Internet, on a fiber backbone. Everyone at Brown receives services such as Electronic mail without charge. Dozens of applications may be downloaded from a cental application server and the user's computer need only be connected to the campus network to use these resources. All students automatically receive an account and space on a central file service called (appropriately) MyStuff. That file space is available from any computer attached to the internet.

The nearby Watson Center for Information Technology is the hub of Brown's computing activity. Located just one block from Hunter Laboratory, it houses a variety of classrooms with advanced computer workstations, public computer clusters, and walk-in help and consulting staff.

Library facilities of the University are broad and extensive. The Sciences Library is a 14-story building located just one block from the Psychology Department; in it are most of the University's holdings in the physical and life sciences, including those needed by Psychology faculty and graduate students. The Rockefeller library, located just across the main quad, houses most of the resources in the humanities and the social sciences. Other libraries include the John Hay, which houses the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, and the John Carter Brown. Two smaller libraries are the Pembroke Campus Library and the Annmary Brown Memorial, a repository of incunabula. Near at hand are the Providence Public Library, the Providence Athenaeum, the Library of the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Library of the Rhode Island School of Design.